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... the two great leading inI parties, refuse to vote for a candidate who is not pledged it Is their views on the extension of slavery. The contest it a has produced great excitement not only in the House, wel bu hruhotth outy.I he progress of' the dat stu ...

Published: Tuesday 01 January 1850
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 8464 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

MULTUM IN PARVO

... betrwixt KirkaldtY aid Leidoni. The Rev. Mr. Penningtons, at a meeling of the Edinburgh Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society, on Frldrry, said, He ensilered slavery to be a monster. Like monsters, generally, it had four lgs-it had a poltical leg, a coiimercial log ...

Published: Tuesday 01 January 1850
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 2854 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

FEMALE TOIL. }1- Tar

... life of the young dressmaker; and I have been most anxious to see something done to rescue these unfortunate girls from the slavery to which they are subjected. Does not justice cry out loudly against the base tyranny which selfishness inflicts upon a delicate ...

Published: Tuesday 01 January 1850
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 2664 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

Selections

... With kindling drops of loving-kindness, And knowledge pour From shore to shore, i Light on the eyes of mental blindnessi All slavery, warfare, lies, and wrongs,- s AU vice and crime might die together; I And milk and corn, f To each man born, t Be free as ...

WILLIAM WILSON, THE PHILANTHROPIST OF BRADFORD

... Female Refoge for Felulle Servants, Do. ,, Fe Fale Penitentiary. Do. ,, V egetarian Society. Do. Dot Tracts for the Anti Slavery SocietyZ id D. ,, on Temperance. d. l)o. , , on Cruelty to Animals. Ad £200 to the Peace Society. s l)o. to the Voluntary ...

Published: Tuesday 01 January 1850
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 2071 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

■crlrriioufe

... chance rise to a high station in society, and become the councillor of princes — a redeeming feature in the system of oriental slavery, which is wanting iv the far more cruel and hopeless despotism of the great western republic. — The Aile Boat. The late Bermundsly ...

Published: Wednesday 02 January 1850
Newspaper: Blackburn Standard
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3867 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Miscellaneous Extracts

... con- tinted to roll through savanalbs peopleli only by tie wian- dering hunter. Of that empire, despotism, acid caste, end slavery were, however, eonstituent elenetits; and the ad- miration vwith which we regard the nionutments of its grandeur is dashed ...

Published: Wednesday 02 January 1850
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 9492 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Foreign Intelligence

... says:- The movenlentsofcongress i will soon be highly interesting, 'and, we have no doubt, I highly exciting and alarming. The slavery question will be t agitated this session to an extent never before realised, and I the effect upon the public mild of this ...

Published: Wednesday 02 January 1850
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5406 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

Jforrtrjn anD Colonial

... forty-seven issues had been tried, and great excitement existed in Washington and throughout the country. The Free Soil, or Anti-Slavery, advocates remained firm in tlieir refusal to vote for auy candidate for the speakership who was not pledged to their views ...

Published: Wednesday 02 January 1850
Newspaper: Blackburn Standard
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2086 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

SLAVERY AND THE UNITED STATES LEGISLATURE

... ilre RLiberpoo[ ileLvtcrtLD ?? - - = . . SALUS POPULI LEX SUPAEMA. FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1850. SLAVERY AND THE UNITED STATES LEGISLATURE. Whatever abstract advantages may be supposed to attach to that constitutional law of the United States which makes the ...

Published: Friday 04 January 1850
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 922 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

iforeCgn and Colonial

... 47 issues had been tried, and great exciteim nt e:;isted in Washington and through- it the country. Tbe free soil or anti-slavery ad : lies remained firm in their refusal to vote for an c r.tdidate for the speakership who was not pkdged to their \iewsi:i ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1850
Newspaper: Lancaster Gazette
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1405 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

FOREIGN

... en the two great leading parties, refuse t, vote for a candidate who is not pledged to their jviews oil thcl question of slavery. The Senate have announcedI to the president that th Iey were ready to proceed to the transaction of besiuess, so far as Was ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1850
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1410 | Page: 2 | Tags: News