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... calls addressed to Congress, to decide once, and any risk, the question of the Central Power's authority in reference to slavery. Our advices state that daily from the date our p ovious letters to that the accounts now received billotincrs had been held; ...

Published: Thursday 03 January 1850
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1286 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

UNITED STATES AND CANADA

... power between the two great leading parties, refuse to vote for candidate who is not pledged t« their views on the question slavery. The contest has produced great excitement, not only in the contesters, hut throughout the country. In the progress the several ...

Published: Thursday 03 January 1850
Newspaper: Perthshire Advertiser
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 263 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LATEST NEWS

... before the close of the month. Great excitement existed in Washington and throughout the country. The Free Soil, or Anti-Slavery Advocates, remained firm in their refusal to vote for any candidate for the Speakership who was not pledged to their views ...

Published: Thursday 03 January 1850
Newspaper: Inverness Courier
County: Inverness-shire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1333 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

FOREIGN NEWS

... majority to secure an election could not be obtained. The northern and southern States are in violent opposition to the slavery question, which now made more pressing than ever in consequence the necessity for providing a constitution for California ...

Published: Thursday 03 January 1850
Newspaper: Inverness Courier
County: Inverness-shire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 737 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

IS THE TOTAL ABSTINENCE MOVEMENT CONDEMNED BY THE EXAMPLE OF OUR LORD?

... disciples did either ; and, as in the days of the Wilberforce agitation, might joiu an Anti Slavery Association, though that particular plan of attacking slavery does not appear to have been adopted Christ or his apostles in their peculiar circumstances ...

Published: Thursday 03 January 1850
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2626 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

CALIFORNIA

... are or shall hereafter become fcma Jid« citizens of California, shall enjoy the same privileges Americans born. ’’ Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, unless for the punishment of crime, shall ever tolerated in the state ” Every white male citizen ...

Published: Thursday 03 January 1850
Newspaper: Perthshire Advertiser
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 618 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

CENTRAL POLIEE COURT-REMARKS BY BAILIE

... five in the morning till eleven at night. Talk of factory labour and the early closing movement! there was no such dreadful slavery as this. It was really astonishing to observe with what assiduity people carried on that dangerous and wicked calling. Their ...

Published: Thursday 03 January 1850
Newspaper: Glasgow Courier
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1313 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

JUST PUBLISHED,

... the times of rampant slavery; and details the events iu the history of that devoted and persecuted man, which closed In his virtual martyrdom—an event which never ceased influence the public mind in England until colonial slavery itself had ceased be*—Leeds ...

Published: Thursday 03 January 1850
Newspaper: Perthshire Advertiser
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 1863 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

AMERICAN POLITICS

... extension of slavery into-the newly acquired States, and that party now holds the scales in its own hands, so as to be able to prevent the progress of busiuess until the election of a Speaker who, like themselves, is opposed to the extension of slavery into any ...

Published: Friday 04 January 1850
Newspaper: North British Daily Mail
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 1799 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Foreign Intelligence

... 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 their refusal to vote for any candidate for the Speakership who was not pledged to taeir views ...

Published: Friday 04 January 1850
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1729 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

AMERICA

... balance of power between the two _•rent putties, refuse to vii:e For a c•ntdidate is not to their view: on the question of slavery. The contrYt cr.ut :-xeitenient, not only its the contesters. b r a the Calliltry. lu the provaiss of several remarkable scenes ...

Published: Friday 04 January 1850
Newspaper: Montrose Standard
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1563 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

ANNUAL SALE for Thirty-six Days

... been delivered, the troublesome matter of the election of Speaker in the House of Representatives had not been arranged. The slavery question is the main cause of the present embarrassment, and is likely further to trouble the American Legislature in the ...

Published: Friday 04 January 1850
Newspaper: Montrose Review
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1845 | Page: 2 | Tags: none