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To all gentlemen volunteers, who prefer liberty to slavery and are hearty friends to the grand American cause; who are free and willing to serve this state, in the character of a gentleman matross, and learn the noble art of gunnery, in the Mass

To all brave, healthy, able bodied, and well disposed young men in this neighbourhood, who have any inclination to join the troops now raising under General Washington, for the defense of the liberties and independence of the United States, agai

To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts:-The undersigned, citizens of Massachusetts, respectfully ask you to enact that no person, who has been held as a slave, shall be delivered up, by any

To the citizens of Massachusetts. The undersigned are moved by an imperative sense of duty to address their fellow-citizens of the State of Massachusetts, concerning the portentous condition of our public affairs. [Regarding the fugitive slave l

To the respectable public. Have a good end in view, and pursue it. Every friend of American freedom, rejoices to find a true and honest spirit of liberty prevailing in all ranks and degrees in this city. [Considering which of the two sets of res

The undersigned again call on all interested in their cause,- the cause of freedom, so deeply important not only to the three millions of American slaves, but to the American nation ... for immediate aid, by contributions of money and materials,

To the free and loyal inhabitants of the City and Colony of New-York. Friends, fellow citizens, fellow countrymen, and fellow freemen. Nothing can be more flagrantly wrong than the assertion of some of our mercantile Dons, that the mechanics hav

A seasonable advertisement to the Freeholders and freemen of the City of New York, and all the real friends to liberty, and lover of their country As nothing can be more essential to the safety of the country than the conducting of elections fre

To the citizens of Massachusetts. The undersigned are moved by an imperative sense of duty to address their fellow-citizens of the State of Massachusetts, concerning the portentous condition of our public affairs. [Regarding the fugitive slave l

To all gentlemen volunteers, who prefer liberty to slavery and are hearty friends to the grand American cause; who are free and willing to serve this state, in the character of a gentleman matross, and learn the noble art of gunnery, in the Mass

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Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML.

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Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 39, Folder 27.

Copy scanned: 1

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