Book/Printed Material An address on voting and laboring, delivered at Concert Hall, Tuesday evening, March 10th, 1874
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Image 1 of An address on voting and laboring, delivered at Concert Hall, Tuesday evening, March … AN ADDRESS ON VOTING AND LABORING DELIVERED AT CONCERT HALL, Tuesday Evening, March 10th, 1874. BY WILLIAM STILL. PHILADELPHIA: JAS. B. RODGERS CO., PRINTERS, 52 & 54 N. SIXTH STREET. 1874.- Contributor: May, Samuel - Still, William - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1874
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Image 2 of An address on voting and laboring, delivered at Concert Hall, Tuesday evening, March … CORRESPONDENCE. Philadelphia, March 2, 1874. Mr. WILLIAM STILL: Dear Sir: In view of the conflicting rumors relative to your vote for Col. A. K. McClure, for Mayor, and also in view of…- Contributor: May, Samuel - Still, William - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1874
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Image 3 of An address on voting and laboring, delivered at Concert Hall, Tuesday evening, March …- Contributor: May, Samuel - Still, William - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1874
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Image 4 of An address on voting and laboring, delivered at Concert Hall, Tuesday evening, March … VOTING AND LABORING. “ The Press ” the morning after the Lecture, March 11th, noticed the meeting as follows: “At Concert Hall a large audience assembled last evening for the purpose of…- Contributor: May, Samuel - Still, William - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1874
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Image 5 of An address on voting and laboring, delivered at Concert Hall, Tuesday evening, March … 4 Of convincing or satisfying mere partisans or politicians, I am free to say, I have no hope. I propose nevertheless to take up the points most objected to in my late…- Contributor: May, Samuel - Still, William - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1874
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Image 6 of An address on voting and laboring, delivered at Concert Hall, Tuesday evening, March … 5 arts, commercial pursuits, literature, professions, &c., despite the prejudices of our times. No man has stronger faith in the race to meet these common expectations than myself. I know that some…- Contributor: May, Samuel - Still, William - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1874
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Image 7 of An address on voting and laboring, delivered at Concert Hall, Tuesday evening, March … 6 another in church fellowship, various societies, etc., yet are they found encouraging their husbands and wives, brothers and sisters in efforts to carry on shops, stores, trades and the like, as…- Contributor: May, Samuel - Still, William - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1874
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Image 8 of An address on voting and laboring, delivered at Concert Hall, Tuesday evening, March … 7 who have been so long bound down under the yoke, and have been so long compelled to think and act only at the bidding of the dominant race, should be the…- Contributor: May, Samuel - Still, William - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1874
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Image 9 of An address on voting and laboring, delivered at Concert Hall, Tuesday evening, March … 8 I would say, therefore, that in order to show a gratitude, that would do honor both to the friends of the colored man and the cause, it might pay to gather…- Contributor: May, Samuel - Still, William - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1874
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Image 10 of An address on voting and laboring, delivered at Concert Hall, Tuesday evening, March … 9 the fact of his running for Mayor in this independent manner, as a non-partisan, appeared to afford an opportunity for all independent. thinking citizens, whether Republicans or Democrats, to vote according…- Contributor: May, Samuel - Still, William - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1874
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Image 11 of An address on voting and laboring, delivered at Concert Hall, Tuesday evening, March … 10 OLD AND NEW ISSUES. The slavery issues on which the two parties have so long been contending are all, except Senator Sumner's Civil Rights Bill, settled, and the way is now…- Contributor: May, Samuel - Still, William - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1874
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Image 12 of An address on voting and laboring, delivered at Concert Hall, Tuesday evening, March … 11 The jury box in Philadelphia until within a few years had never been occupied under the late constitution, by a man of African descent. Doubtless many men with the old hate…- Contributor: May, Samuel - Still, William - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1874
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Image 13 of An address on voting and laboring, delivered at Concert Hall, Tuesday evening, March … 12 Pine street in an unpretending three story brick building. The Book Concern or Publication House of the A. M. E. Church is here established. Several young colored men are daily found…- Contributor: May, Samuel - Still, William - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1874
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Image 14 of An address on voting and laboring, delivered at Concert Hall, Tuesday evening, March … 13 usually found in its columns from different parts of the Union, especially from the Southern States, relating to live questions of various import, making it interesting and worthy of a large…- Contributor: May, Samuel - Still, William - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1874
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Image 15 of An address on voting and laboring, delivered at Concert Hall, Tuesday evening, March … 14 he is called upon to witness the blighting and degrading effects of rum on the old and young, white and black. Within a few rods of his Church door and parsonage…- Contributor: May, Samuel - Still, William - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1874
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Image 16 of An address on voting and laboring, delivered at Concert Hall, Tuesday evening, March … 15 born under such horrid influences could become other than hopelessly depraved. It is nevertheless true, even in this dreadful locality, quite a number of faithful and upright poor people reside. Indeed,…- Contributor: May, Samuel - Still, William - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1874
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Image 17 of An address on voting and laboring, delivered at Concert Hall, Tuesday evening, March … 16 day. All I see around me tends only to admonish me that the colored man has still a “big job” before him. And I trust I may here be pardoned for…- Contributor: May, Samuel - Still, William - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1874
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Image 18 of An address on voting and laboring, delivered at Concert Hall, Tuesday evening, March …- Contributor: May, Samuel - Still, William - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1874
About this Item
Title
- An address on voting and laboring, delivered at Concert Hall, Tuesday evening, March 10th, 1874
Names
- Still, William, 1821-1902
- May, Samuel, Jr., 1810-1899, former owner
- African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- Philadelphia : Jas. B. Rodgers Co., Printers, 1874.
Headings
- - African Americans--Suffrage
- - African Americans--Employment
Genre
- Addresses--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--1874
Notes
- - Cover title.
- - LC copy inscribed on p. [1]: Rev. Samuel May, Apr. 14, 1897.
- - LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 16853.
- - Source: Source unknown.
Medium
- 16 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- E185 .A254 container S, no. 278
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 92838831
Online Format
- online text
- image