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Abolitionists Around

  • Date: May 12, 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

He said— “The American Government was a failure, and its dissolution was the question for white men as

country would some day assert their rights and their manhood, Union or no Union; that they would say to white

mass of the people sooner or later decide;—not an isolated association of men and women, black and white

About Pictures, &c.

  • Date: 21 Novermber 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

satisfaction the 'Portrait of a Gentleman,' No. 19—'Portrait of a Child,' No. 31—the 'Kitchen Bail at White

Portrait of a Gentleman and Portrait of a Child have not been identified; Kitchen Ball at White Sulphur

Annotations Text:

.; Portrait of a Gentleman and Portrait of a Child have not been identified; Kitchen Ball at White Sulphur

Advice to Strangers

  • Date: 23 August 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

partitions allowed secreted criminals to rummage through the client's clothes while he slept" (Shane White

, Stephen Garton, Stephen Robertson, Graham White, Playing the Numbers [Harvard University Press, 2010

Annotations Text:

partitions allowed secreted criminals to rummage through the client's clothes while he slept" (Shane White

, Stephen Garton, Stephen Robertson, Graham White, Playing the Numbers [Harvard University Press, 2010

Alas, Poor Lager!

  • Date: 31 October 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

We allude to the weizen or wheat-beer, now generally known as Berlin white beer, from its pale color.

[Among the Supervisors elect of]

  • Date: 3 April 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Supervisors elect of] ☞Among the Supervisors elect of Westchester Co., we notice the name of our friend William

[An incorrigible bookworm]

  • Date: 15 December 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

precious treasure a scrap of manuscript, a broken goblet—an old glove even—that the sacred hand of William

"Black and White Slaves."

  • Date: 2 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

"Black and White Slaves." "Black and White Slaves."

texts show that he had little tolerance for abolitionism, that he thought blacks were inferior to whites

The lithograph to which Whitman refers was actually entitled "Black and White Slavery," and was created

by a Northern slavery apologist named Edward Williams Clay.

It compares Britain's "white slaves" (factory workers) to America's black slaves in an effort to show

Annotations Text:

texts show that he had little tolerance for abolitionism, that he thought blacks were inferior to whites

Vintage Books, 1996), 125–127.; The lithograph to which Whitman refers was actually entitled "Black and White

It compares Britain's "white slaves" (factory workers) to America's black slaves in an effort to show

Book Notices

  • Date: 3 July 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

By William C. Prime. TENT LIFE IN THE HOLY LAND. By William C.

Brooklyniana; A Series of Local Articles, on Past and Present

  • Date: 5 June 1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Johnson said that, in his youth, he had visited and seen this grandson, whose name was William Jansen

William told his young visitor "I took one bag on each shoulder, one in each hand, and one in my teeth

This William lived to be 80 years of age, and died so late as 1805.

Brooklyniana; A Series of Local Articles, Past and Present

  • Date: 3 June 1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

, Jacob Ryerson, Alert Aersen, Tunis Buys-Garret Cowenhoven, Gabriel Sprong, Urian Andries, John Williams

Brooklyniana, No. 10

  • Date: 8 February 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

British General William Howe defeated American General George Washington.

Brooklyniana, No. 11

  • Date: 15 February 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

British General William Howe defeated American General George Washington.

Brooklyniana, No. 13.

  • Date: 1 March 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

There, too, is Rockaway beach, so white and silvery, calm and pleasant, enough, perhaps, with its long-rolling

Brooklyniana, No. 15

  • Date: 15 March 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

as we write, remember the scene, now more than thirty-five years ago—the group of bent, thin-faced, white-haired

Sale, William A. Sale was one of the builders of Old St. Ann's Church in Brooklyn.

William Furman served as county judge before Leffert Lefferts. Secretary—Freeman Hopkins.

William Quinn. The African M. E.

Church was the African Methodist Episcopal Church, for which William Quinn was the first and only church-planting

Brooklyniana, No. 17.

  • Date: 5 April 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

It was rumored that he converted President William Henry Harrison. His son John N.

British General William Howe defeated American General George Washington.

William Hartshorne was a printer and mentor to Whitman.

40, The old Log Cabin to which Whitman refers was likely part of the 1840 "log cabin campaign" of William

Udall, William M.

Brooklyniana, No. 35

  • Date: 30 August 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

In 1636, at the request of Charles I, the Plymouth Company transferred to William Alexander, Earl of

The snow-white floor was sprinkled with fine sand, which was curiously stroked with a broom into fantastic

first carpet said to have been introduced into the colony was found in the house of the pirate, Kidd, William

Brooklyniana, No. 35.—Continued.

  • Date: 6 September 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Looms, too, were in common use, and piles of home-spun cloth and snow-white linen attested the industry

Brooklyniana, No. 37

  • Date: 11 October 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

He was an independent, God-worshipping man, and exercised great influence for good over both whites and

Brooklyniana, No. 38

  • Date: 25 October 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

colors, and stones of every conceivable shape, hue, and destiny, with shells, large boulders of a pure white

Brooklyniana, No. 39

  • Date: 1 November 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

See William Rounseville Alger, The Life of Edwin Forrest (New York: Lippincott, 1877), 2:649.

We hove in sight of the steeples and white paint of home, and soon after, the spirits we had served deserted

Brooklyniana, No. 4

  • Date: 28 December 1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Three beads of this black money, and six of white, were equivalent to an English penny, or a Dutch stuyver

Brooklyniana, No. 5

  • Date: 4 January 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

British General William Howe defeated American General George Washington.

"David and William Campbell, Builders. April 6, 1808." TO BE CONTINUED. This piece is unsigned.

Brooklyniana, No. 5.---Continued.

  • Date: 11 January 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

In 1908 this was replaced by a 149-foot tall column designed by Stanford White.

The monument to Major General William Jenkins Worth, a veteran of the War of 1812 and the Mexican-American

Annotations Text:

In 1908 this was replaced by a 149-foot tall column designed by Stanford White.; All three of these monuments

Brooklyniana, No. 6

  • Date: 11 January 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Thomas Kirk, William Hartshorne, the veteran of United States printers Early type-setting experience.

Hartshorne, William Hartshorne was a printer and mentor to Whitman.

We have spoken of William Hartshorne—he was the veteran printer of the United States.

Of William Hartshorne, for the fifteen or twenty years previous to his death, the old man was often to

Brooklyniana, No. 7

  • Date: 18 January 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Kerosine.......... 200,000 Saleratus......... 50,000 Starch............ 30,000 Vinegar........... 12,000 White

lead........ 1,250,000 Whiting........... 68,000 Lamps, lanterns, & gas fixtures. 125,000 Stoves....

The White Lead factory gives employment to two hundred and twenty-five men.

The Brooklyn White Lead Works, established in 1822, was the oldest white lead factory in the state of

Annotations Text:

.; The Brooklyn White Lead Works, established in 1822, was the oldest white lead factory in the state

Brooklyniana, No. 8

  • Date: 25 January 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

was of an ancient primitive kind, very staid, without any cheering, but then a plentiful waving of white

number of "old revolutionaries" on the ground, and along the line of march; and their bent forms and white

Brooklyniana, No.18

  • Date: 19 April 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

elected Mayor of the city, and he held a number of other offices before his death in 1854. with his white

Can All Marry?

  • Date: 22 June 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

as hard to find as the slipper of Cinderella; and so, in default of the fairy chaussure , the small white

The Celebration

  • Date: 28 April 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Water Department—Birkenbein, White, Moore, Barond, City Comptroller, J. N. Dutton.

Williams. Health Officer, Arthur Hughes. NEW HAVEN—Aldermen—H. S.

White, Ald. Huntley, and ex-Ald. Bannon acting as vice-chairmen.

Marion Hose Company No. 1—William H. Lawrence Foreman with a full company numbering 30.

White, whose own fair proportions distracted by no means from those of his noble team.

Central American Affairs

  • Date: 2 December 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

In Panama, the writer states, the ordinary relative positions of whites and blacks are reversed.

and most of the principal authorities of the place are black, and they mete out less justice to a white

Political parties in Panama and indeed in the whole State are divided into the whites and blacks, and

The Chinese

  • Date: 12 February 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

into the needle, pushed the board against the plane, instead of the plane against the board; wore white

City Photographs

  • Date: 16 March 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Hammersley, who served an equally long time; William Hammersley was one of the earliest physicians and

It is a large apartment, very clean of course, white-washed, with high-ceilings, well-lighted, perhaps

City Photographs—No. III

  • Date: 29 March 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Colden, the Hones, Whitehead and Valentine Hicks, William and James Jauncey, the Kortwrights, Livingstons

Dunlap, William Dunlap (1766–1839) was a painter who was also famous for writing History of the Rise

City Photographs—No. VI

  • Date: 3 May 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

small size, opened in 1835. down in the square—on account of the real genius of the acting in it of William

William Sefton and John Sefton were brothers.

William was the first stage manager of the Franklin Theatre.

City Photographs—No. VII

  • Date: 17 May 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Here is plenty of room, and the roof of canvas, red, white and blue, makes it all cool and nice for summer

Claims of Partisans

  • Date: 22 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

featured many sensationalized stories that were discredited, The Sun persisted in some form until 1950 (William

, Light and Shadows of Irish Life (Philadelphia: Carey, Lea and Blanchard, 1838), 141; "Patrick," William

according to the belief of these sage, grave men, The phrase "sage, grave men" comes from a line in William

originally worked to elect Jeffersonian Republicans and to extend the right to vote to non-property owning white

Annotations Text:

originally worked to elect Jeffersonian Republicans and to extend the right to vote to non-property owning white

The Colored Folk’s Festival

  • Date: 3 August 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Whatever may be the diversity of opinion among the whites, in regard to the effect of Negro Emancipation

It seems to me that the white Douglass should occasionally meet his deserts at the hands of a black one

Defining "Our Position"

  • Date: 30 March 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

White, 1839]).

White, 1839]). This piece is unsigned.

Annotations Text:

White, 1839]).

White, 1839]).; Our transcription is based on a digital image of an original issue.

Dickens and Democracy

  • Date: 2 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Quilp—the dull, callous insensibility to any virtue, of Sikes Fagin (Whitman misspells his name) and William

Douglas and Buchanan

  • Date: 8 September 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

In order to render the Senator's re-election hopeless, the crafty inhabitant of the White House turned

Dr. Scudder's Lecture

  • Date: 7 May 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

coffee plants with their little flowers are seen on the plain, while the Rhododendron and the wild white

Fifty-first New-York City Veterans

  • Date: 29 October 1864
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

often without food to eat or water to drink, all those parts of Stafford, Culpepper Culpeper , Prince William

On the fall of that stronghold they were pushed off under S HERMAN Union Major-General William Tecumseh

The Fourth of April

  • Date: 5 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

William Henry Harrison (1773–1841) was the 9th U.S. President.

served as President from March 4, 1841 until his death on April 4, 1841 (Isaac Rand Jackson, General William

When William Henry Harrison was running for presidential office, southern Whigs largely supported Henry

The Frazer River Ferment

  • Date: 28 July 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

There were then 4,000,000 adult white men in the Union, of whom 100,000, or one in 40, left for California

On the 1st of April, there were 150,000 adult white men in this State; 12,000 (some say 22,000) or one

From Washington

  • Date: 22 September 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

From late June through the middle of October 1863, forces under Union General William S.

trees, through all the streets and in the well-kept public grounds, and through this green, the milky white

Good for Governor Walker!

  • Date: 6 June 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the Jury-box, vote in all elections, meet us in social intercourse, and intermarry freely with the whites

The doctrine of the perfect equality of the white with the black in all respects whatsoever, social and

The Free State theory is that the West is the white man's land—the land for free independent farmers,

such a State government as will result in large plantations, full of African slaves, crowding out the white

farmer, white emigrant, and white poor family.

Grand Buildings in New York City

  • Date: 5 June 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

avenue, Madison avenue, and tens of streets around and above Union Park, have their palatial houses of white

Such considerations as these make us laugh at the architecture of the New York Custom House, with its white

Greenport, L. I. June 28th

  • Date: 28 June 1851
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Lord, formerly member of Congress, Frederick William Lord (1800–1860) lived in Greenport and was a member

came a couple of little black fish; after which a real big one, twenty inches long, opening his great white

Whitman refers to Augusta Jane Chapin (1836–1905), Thomas Baldwin Thayer (1812–1886), and William Stevens

Health Hints

  • Date: 11 July 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

We allude to weizen or wheat beer, now generally known as Berlin white beer, from its pale color."

Heart Rending

  • Date: 5 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

opinion of the living and working conditions of England in the New York Aurora editorials "Black and White

In "Black and White Slaves" he writes, "In England, nine-tenths of the population do not enjoy the common

Annotations Text:

opinion of the living and working conditions of England in the New York Aurora editorials "Black and White

In "Black and White Slaves" he writes, "In England, nine-tenths of the population do not enjoy the common

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