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...persecuted the anti-slavery minority, suddenly felt drawn into this wave of national sentiment, and now denounced the slaveholders and their allies of the north. Impelled by this tide of enthusiasm, Fietcher Webster, son of the most conspicuous enemy of the anti-slavery crusade, took command of a Massachusetts regiment and later died on the field, fighting to re-enact the law of God, which his eloquent father had refused to do--I name Colonel Webster, not for the sake of reviving an old controversy as to the patriotism of his illustrious father, but because of a peculiar incident...
Clerk of course--J. J. Dixon, 47th Regiment Armory...
...Living Room of the Union at 7.30 o'clock this evening. The following program has been arranged: 1. "Dixie Girl." Banjo Club. 2. "Yachting Glee." Glee Club. 3. a. "Santa Lucia." b. "How Can I Leave Thee." Guitar Solo by R. C. Lathrop 1L. 4. "Twenty-Third Regiment March." Banjo Club. 5. "Serenade." J. K. Jackson '04, and Glee Club. 6. Selection (Guitar). R. C. Lathrop 1L. 7. Popular Medley. Banjo Club. 8. Old College Songs. Glee Club...
...thirty-five undergraduates who signed the petition for a new Cambridge company to fill the vacancy in the Eighth Regiment, M. V. M., caused by the disbanding of Company L. of Lawrence, were last night inspected by Inspector-General Brigham at the State Armory near Harvard Bridge. If his report is favorable, these men will soon be notified to assemble for muster...
Colonel Higginson will show how his two years of experience in command of the first regiment of freed slaves mustered in the United States service during the Civil War proved to him that "they are intensely human." He will explain that the points which separate the colored people from the whites are trivial as compared with those they have in common, and that it is by simply dealing with them as human beings that we shall do them and ourselves most justice...