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  1. Inspiring Words From L.A. Chase

    Date(s): February 11, 1890 Location: ORANGE, Florida Tag(s): school, Speech, Loring Augustus Chase, Hannibal Square, African-American 

    On February 11, 1890 Mr. Chase gave a wonderful speech to those who attended the introduction to the new faculty of the public school in Hannibal Square. The Hannibal Square Elementary was the first public school for African Americans founded in 1883.[1] Mr. Chase shed some light on matters such as slavery and he even goes on to compliment the African American people on their behavior and thirst for...

  2. Indiana Public Serenaded Schulyer Colfax into Speech

    Date(s): May 2, 1866 Location: HUNTINGDON, Pennsylvania Tag(s): Reconstruction, Civil War, Schulyer Colfax, Andrew Johnson, Speech 

    On May 02, 1866, Schuyler Colfax, the speaker of the House of Representatives delivered a speech in response to the President Andrew Johnson’s unsatisfactory message at the opening of the Thirty-ninth Congress.  Colfax, serenaded by the public of Indiana, delivered a telling speech bathed in assurance of American “security under the protection of equal laws,” a tribute to “our noble President,...