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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

... ir thie two great leading parties, refuse to vote for a catdidate wvilo p is not pledged to their vicrson the questioa ci slavery. T'e contest has produced great excitement, not only in tie conutest- e: ers, butt throughout tie coutaIry. Tile sensate, ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1850
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 3740 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS

... said that if, ol the organisation of the house, propositions were to be in- troduced to abolish slavery in the district of Columbia, or to prohibit slavery in the new territories, lie trusted in God that his eyes had already restei on the last speaker ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1850
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1510 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

COLONIAL GOVERNMENT

... suggestive of a poodle in the jaws of a not-quite-angered mastiff. The Nicaragua question is judiciously treated: that of slavery in the United States as judiciously avoided (considering pend- ing debates), for it is barely glanced at. The least ac- ceptable ...

Published: Saturday 12 January 1850
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 4918 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE RUSSIAN LOAN

... present age? I per iin thie cointrary no rational man can be expected to believe can tihit thLlc serfs, be ing mel. will prefer slavery to treedom- tbil liult. heimig tenl Is one of their niasters, tiley will hot do iii ace iUca id lisit thley hmace done in ...

Published: Saturday 26 January 1850
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 5432 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Parliamentary Intelligence

... upon the . country when it was no more in a fit state to receive it than 1 r the colonies were to receive the abolition of slavery. The farmer I ought to be relieved from the malt-tax and other burdens. (hear). Let lion. members divest their minds of fear ...

Published: Saturday 02 February 1850
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 5778 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

... congress the debates isa been unimportant. From various state legislatures evi- &ences of irascible and excited feeling on the slavery question eoutinuedto be received. From Canada there were rumours stdifficulties between Lord Elgin and his ministry. Accounts ...

Published: Saturday 09 February 1850
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1738 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEA

... ENIGMA IN THE 'EXETER. FLYING POST, or FEBRuAIOY 7, 1850.' From Afric's burning shore the suffering wretch Is drdggs'd to slavery's deep misery; Meanwhile, near'regions.o( eternal ice - ?In Arctic seastooves great Leviathan.0 High o'er the Andes coudo ...

Published: Thursday 14 February 1850
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 2453 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

TUESDAY'S POST

... proposition regarding the slavery *;qaestion, proposing amicable arrangements of the dispute -t:tween the free and slave states, had been introduced. Mile proposed the admission of California into union, ?? restriction as to slavery, and the samne as to the ...

Published: Thursday 21 February 1850
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1219 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

... yet been accomplished in congress, the attention of both houses having been principally occupied with discussions on the slavery question, and its relation to the new territories which seek for admission to the United States. An address has been issued ...

Published: Saturday 23 March 1850
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 2067 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

Parliamentary Proceedings

... deeply injured both. Mr. BmtoLIO seconded the motion, contending that England was acting a despicable part in regard to slavery, having actu- ally become a receiver of stolen goods, for while keeping up appearances with her African squadron, she was ...

Published: Saturday 23 March 1850
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 8012 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

... to the like effect were also presented from the comtuitteel'of the Wesleysin MissionarySociety, snd from the Exeter Anti-Slavery Siiciety. Tne ARaICAIN SquAiiioN.-Mr. Hu7r moved an Address to the Crown to direct that negotiaiinns be forthwith entered ...

Published: Thursday 28 March 1850
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 2537 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

... spent in heated debate on a resolution- by Mr. Doty to admit California as she is- tbat is, with a constitution denouncing slavery. The Southern speakers had, as usual, been profuse in declara- tions tbat the Union was imperilled, -and that civil war was ...

Published: Thursday 28 March 1850
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1145 | Page: 6 | Tags: News