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THE HIGHLAND DESTITUTION FUND

... effect, that they should do all in their power to overthrow slavery, both in America and the West Indies. He believed that the passing of the Fugitive Slave Bill was the last move of the slavery party in that country, and that it would ultimately lead to ...

Published: Thursday 02 January 1851
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Courant
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1954 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY

... dominion and wealth, and adding half a continent, at one handful, to the Union; but that Union does not escape the gangrene of slavery that still rankles in its bosom, and, sharing the common fate of nations, it has lost great man had just chosen for its President ...

Published: Thursday 02 January 1851
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Courant
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 6943 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

SCOTCH MEMBERS IN COMMITTEE

... second son, took place on Tuesday. Kelso.—Slavery.— On Monday last one of the largest and most enthusiastic meetings which ever took place in Kelso, was held in the Rev. Mr Renton’s church, on the subject of slavery. A serious resolutions were moved by the ...

Published: Saturday 04 January 1851
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Courant
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4991 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

PKPYS DIARY*

... gall and bitterness of slavery.-—[William Crafts and his wife have been residing iu Edinburgh for the last week. Crafts and another fugitive slave, named William Wells Brown, delivered lectures on > the subject of American slavery, on Thursday and Friday ...

Published: Monday 06 January 1851
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Courant
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3188 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

... 1 Lave a special horror of all the preposterons claims, and exaggerated powers of the priesthood. I admit that it is slavery—a slavery of the mind (as we were lately told in a raeraorablo document). I am aware that the parents of these children, if existing ...

Published: Thursday 09 January 1851
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Courant
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 8156 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WATERLOO ROOMS, REGENT BRIDGE

... the Governments of the latter countries, would be effectual for its suppression, would greatly promote the extinction of Slavery itself, and would also relieve our own Colonies from injurious competition with labour unrighteously obtained and recklessly ...

Published: Thursday 16 January 1851
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Courant
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 715 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE

... Men whose opinioa. was worth n S* very different views, not as to slavery itself, but as to tho means of putting it down. Let them denounce as strongly as they liked tho system of slavery ; and let them call on Government as loudly as they could to pnt ...

Published: Thursday 23 January 1851
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Courant
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3068 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

the cnuncn of Scotland

... afford mako will deemed too groat by ns. to emancipate our brethren from their spiritual bondage, and thus to extinguish slavery, at once the deepest reproach, and the most imminent danger, equally, of our beloved country, and our yet more beloved Church ...

Published: Saturday 01 February 1851
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Courant
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 8090 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WITHDHA WAL OF THE AFRICAN SQUADHON —PUBLIC MEEJIy A meeting of the Financial Reform ciation was held lust ..

... cited a great amount of statistics and nj. dence, to shew that the squadron augmented, instead f diminished, the’trafflc in slavery and its attendant hor. rors and atrocities. From returns he shewed that,f six years since 1839, tho number of slaves carried ...

Published: Tuesday 04 March 1851
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Courant
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1167 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THIS EVENING. MUSIC HALL. TWO GRAND CONCERTS

... record his unwearied co-operation in every effort that tended to bring glory to God and good to man—such as the extinction of Slavery, the sanctification of the Lord's Day, and the upholding of Protestant Truth : but by the Edinburgh Bible Society he is to ...

Published: Saturday 08 March 1851
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Courant
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 986 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

UNITED STATES

... the support of the laws of their country. Letters from Washington express fears lest the occurrence should reanimate the Slavery agitation. Little hope of any change of tariff existed. General Henderson had again escaped trial at New Orleans on the Cuba ...

Published: Tuesday 11 March 1851
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Courant
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1316 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

SUPPLY.—NAVAL ESTIMATES

... hear.) That, I think, would be a glory to this country, that having, by its own efforts, put an end to the slave trade and slavery in our own dominions, and having by its example and effects on all nations, put an end to the slave trade of many other countries ...

Published: Thursday 13 March 1851
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Courant
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4028 | Page: 2 | Tags: none