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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays 12 0 Browse Search
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1 8 0 Browse Search
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches 6 0 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3 2 0 Browse Search
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Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches, The colored regiments. (search)
on the same subject, and was hissed for his pains by the same men who were afterwards saved from the conscription of 1863 by the negroes whom he recruited. Lewis Hayden, the colored janitor of the State House, always claimed the credit of having suggested to Governor Andrew to organize a colored regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers. William S. Robinson, who was then Clerk of the State Senate, supported Hayden in this; but he also remarked that Representative Durfee, of New Bedford, proposed a bill in May, 1861, for the organization of a colored regiment, and that it was only defeated by six votes. As soon as the Proclamation of Emancipation had beennor counselled with certain leading colored men of Boston. He put the question, Will your people enlist in my regiments? They will not, was the reply of all but Hayden. We have no objection to white officers, but our self-respect demands that competent colored men shall be at least eligible to promotion. By the last of Februa