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... locked up in his desk; and the whole nation, so strangely divided a. between the friends of freedom and the friends of t. slavery, look on with intense anxiety for the augury to be derived from the election of Speaker. a PROTECTIONISTS ROUTED ATKNARESSBRO' ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1850
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1245 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

FOREIGN NEWS

... between the two great leading parties, refuse to vote for a candidate who is not pledged to their viewseot the exteribion of slavery. The contest lisa produced great excitement not only in the House, but throughtout the country. In lt.e progress of the struggle ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1850
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3611 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

LEEDS:

... perceive 1,that the Anti-slavery Committee have invited Mr. William y Wells Brown, of the United States, to visit Leeds, nvxt week, for the purpose of giving one or more lectures. Mr 8 Brown is a maci of ol~our, and a fugitive from slavery. He lies published ...

Published: Saturday 12 January 1850
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4376 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE LEEDS MERCURY

... of political ?? liberty and personal slavery in immediate juxta- ic:position. And tlse most curious thing of all, perhaps, ?O7is, that in America, the Pro-Steivery men are the ?? Traders, whilst tlte Anti-Slavery men are the iet Monopolists! it) ?? regard ...

Published: Saturday 12 January 1850
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1796 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

LATEST LONDON & FOREIGN NEWS

... held to promote the extension of the franchise. Two anti-slavery meetings had been held ; one to petition Parliament to enforce slavery treaties, the other to hear a deputation from the Anti-Slavery Society in England. A very large crop of sugar is expected ...

Published: Saturday 12 January 1850
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 882 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

WEST RIDING FREEHOLD LAND SOCIETY

... England swallowed in intoxicating drinks two Birminigisoma annuolly. (Eleos',boar.) Talk about despotism and slavery, what despolism and slavery could be no bad as that which men laboered under who ware slaves to their own rippallles. I Hoea, boar.) The ...

Published: Saturday 12 January 1850
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 12521 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

ANTI-SLAVERY MEETING AT LEEDS

... must dhat .,dootroy slavery, If ever they would got rid of the slave trade. So long lob dI as slavery existed, the barter of human beings most exist also, bib a Therefore, the Anti-Slavery Society turned their attention to slavery quo in the Spanioh colonies ...

Published: Saturday 26 January 1850
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 7631 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

FOREIGN NEWS

... discussion, the ad .in Congress, of any subject of importaisce until within the que! ct last two or iliree days. d iecl v- On the slavery question Mr. Benton has thrown down the and his gauntlet in the Senate, and the bitterest feeling is mani- vai by fested by ...

Published: Saturday 26 January 1850
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3739 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THE BRAZILIAN SLAVE TRADE AND ITS REMEDY

... are already painfully familiar. This, we have often 3thad occasion to prove, was but a new form of the slave is trade and slavery, and similarly attended with results s. afflictive and disgraceful to humanity. ic ToXE regulations ostensibly framed for ...

Published: Saturday 02 February 1850
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3300 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

ANTI-SLAVERY MEETING AT HALIFAX

... to meet John Scoble, Esq., who had statements to make re relatiye to the anti-slavery cause, and the violation of the 0o treaties by Spain and Brazil with regard to slavery. The Mayor occupied the chair, and on the platform wers ,3 Aldermen Binns and ...

Published: Saturday 02 February 1850
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 733 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

FOREIGN NEWS

... on Lou- 0 don 10f to 10[hk. UNITED STATES AND CANADA. The Slavery Question has been before Congress. In the a Senate a debate aroea on a motion to receive and print Ia II series of anti-slavery resolutions from the Legislature of ti Vermont. A motion ...

Published: Saturday 09 February 1850
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 7849 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

COLONIAL POLICY

... constitutes a small frac- tion, and which countries have either recently under. gone a great social change in the transition from slavery to freedom, or are conquered and dependent, and over which our rule is all but despotic. Oun limits will not admit of our ...

Published: Saturday 16 February 1850
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2588 | Page: 4 | Tags: News