LOCAL NEWS

... three candidates—Mr. Allen, who etk i calls himself a “ Conservative-Whig ; Mr. | 0 0 amed “targe, the well-known anti-slavery philan- oy 00 0 thropist, a thorough-going Radical ; and Mr. County of Lur Muntz, who though known by the name of . “the Chartist ...

Published: Saturday 25 January 1840
Newspaper: Berwick Advertiser
County: Northumberland, England
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WEEKLY OLIO

... WEEKLY OLIO. An anti-slavery congress is appointed to be held in Loundon in the course of next June, to concert measures for a general movement against the abominable system of slavery still prevalent in various parts of the world. Delegates will attend ...

Published: Saturday 08 February 1840
Newspaper: Berwick Advertiser
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 221 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THURSDAY, Fes. 13

... adminisiration, of not less than tweaty millioos to the public debt, added for th> purpose of frocing our fellow-subjects from slavery. (iear.) Notwithstanding this very serious addition, thore was, on th: sth of Jan. 1639, an increase on the capital debt of ...

Published: Saturday 22 February 1840
Newspaper: Berwick Advertiser
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 2907 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Aroveign Fnteliigence

... fllowing' letter which is addressed to | self. Ali this may appear chinerical ; bat it is pesuble. ' the ditors of the Ati-Slavery Reporter, is a specimen In alliion to the force fam Eagland, ships will be of the complaiats made against these enactmients ...

Published: Saturday 22 February 1840
Newspaper: Berwick Advertiser
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 3012 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE DEAREST

... the time when Parliament gave twenty millions sterling to the West India interest, as a compensation for the abolition of slavery, it would have been a little difficult to say that there should be no compensation to the patrons. What effect the veto has ...

Published: Saturday 07 March 1840
Newspaper: Berwick Advertiser
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 5232 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

PORTUGAL

... recoived, they contain little additional mews. The slavery abolition question docs not seem to make much progress in the United States. The Legislature of Oliio had passed a resolution recognising slavery as an institution of the State, and another denouncing ...

Published: Saturday 14 March 1840
Newspaper: Berwick Advertiser
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 222 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

GREAT REFORM FESTIVAL

... the repeal of the corporation and test acts, - the mitigation of a too sanguinary eriminal code, —the abolition of Necsro Slavery —(Cheers) —and last, and greatest of all, the measure of Parliamentary Reform. (Cheers.) Farly in lite he e ...

Published: Saturday 21 March 1840
Newspaper: Berwick Advertiser
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1766 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DAMAGES FOR WRONGOUS IMPRISONMENT

... 3d | |Allul 4th Wm, IV, e. 73, certain compensation was | made payable to the proprietors of negroes on the | abolition of slavery, and the amount of this compensation l payable for the negroes upon the estate of Coldingham amounted to £lOBO, of which sum ...

Published: Saturday 21 March 1840
Newspaper: Berwick Advertiser
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 8661 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

. iations with other powers, they might appear, not - rely as speaking the opinion of the executive, but as

... most active opponent of every concession to | popular rights, or to the demands of justice and humanity — the upholder of slavery, the enemy of education, the fiercest foe to the reform and purification of the legislature, the most determined opponent ...

Published: Saturday 28 March 1840
Newspaper: Berwick Advertiser
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 3568 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

TESTIMONIALS

... government the recog| mition of its independence. We hope it is true, as the Morning Siar atfirms, that the chenshed existence of slavery in Texas isamong tho reasons which have becn inflaenial with Lord Palmerston, in deciding on this course. An American paper ...

Published: Saturday 04 April 1840
Newspaper: Berwick Advertiser
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 700 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

JOHN THOROGOOD

... that great remedial changes are |to be effected. Now is the harvest time for the men who carried the abolition of negro slavery ! T.et them come forward in their moral and peaceful but irresistable mgt 1o rescue the country from the tax upon the breal ...

Published: Saturday 02 May 1840
Newspaper: Berwick Advertiser
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 2373 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

ENGLISH NEWS

... millions of pounds. The General Anti-Slavery Conference will commence its sittings on the 12th of June. A book is prepared for entering the names and other particulars of the delegates who may be appointed by anti-slavery bodies, both at home and abroad. ...

Published: Saturday 09 May 1840
Newspaper: Berwick Advertiser
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1764 | Page: 3 | Tags: none