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AMERICAN AFFAIRS

... save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, Ido not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and it not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would ...

Published: Wednesday 17 September 1862
Newspaper: Teesdale Mercury
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 951 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE,

... FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE, AMERICA NEW YORK, y, The Sooth Carolina Convention have after repealing the Secoteion Ordinance, aioliJ slavery, civing the election governor and tial elections to the people, unanimously (ndcr-*' the administration, and direeting a ...

Published: Wednesday 18 October 1865
Newspaper: Teesdale Mercury
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 172 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE KANSAS STRUGGLE

... THE KANSAS STRUGGLE. The news from Kansas is still interesting. The pro-slavery forces had succeeded in turning the tables on their Free-State opponents, and much blood had been spilt and property destroyed, if the reports that have reached are reliable ...

Published: Wednesday 01 October 1856
Newspaper: Teesdale Mercury
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 374 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE WAR IN AMERICA

... of no trifling significance—the preservation of Missouri,'regarded for many years as the battle-ground of the slavery question, the anti-slavery friends of the Union in the North. According these accounts, General Price, with 10,000 men, had surrounded ...

Published: Wednesday 09 October 1861
Newspaper: Teesdale Mercury
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 204 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

English Neutrality

... ships of war might be lawfully sold to be used in behalf of slavery. There was no necessity for the step, andsuch a concession to slavemongers fighting for slavery would vindicated only as slavery is vindicated. Its effect was to create throughout England ...

Published: Wednesday 30 September 1863
Newspaper: Teesdale Mercury
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 731 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE TURKISH SLAVE TRADE

... authorities that, as the Jaws relating to slavery were founded on the Koran, they must remain unaltered; aud that as the Sultan, who had been always hitherto the most strenuous defender and vigorous promoter slavery iu these parts, must doubtless on the present ...

Published: Wednesday 12 March 1856
Newspaper: Teesdale Mercury
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 598 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE STATE OF KANSAS

... Union, the Pro-slavery organ at the seat of Government chosen for Kansas last summer by the Border Rutlian Legislature at Shawnee Mission” (we quote a description of the journal and the established Kansas Legislature from a New York Anti-slavery paper)—“the ...

Published: Wednesday 02 July 1856
Newspaper: Teesdale Mercury
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 1129 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

The EMancipation Policy,

... have been substantially cleared of insurgents’ control, and influential citizens in each—owners of slaves and advocates of slavery at the beginning of the rebellion —now declare openly for emancipation in their respective States. Of these States, not included ...

Published: Wednesday 06 January 1864
Newspaper: Teesdale Mercury
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 572 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE WAR IN AMERICA. What is the Object of the War ? (From the Richmond Dispatch, Sept. 30.) The Yankee

... Dispatch, Sept. 30.) The Yankee Government has at last laid aside all disguise. Lincoln openly proclaims the abolition of slavery throughout the entire South, wherever a slave is held. The time for issuing this proclamation has been singularly well chosen ...

Published: Wednesday 22 October 1862
Newspaper: Teesdale Mercury
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 824 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

EXTRACTS FSOM “PUNCH” &r “ PUN.’

... Northern States of America hate slavery, but there is-something they hate still more, ana that the Mr. Boebuek was right in his language, but wrong in his meaning. The North may have hated the slave, because it hated slavery, but Mr. Boebuck meant his audience ...

Published: Wednesday 10 June 1863
Newspaper: Teesdale Mercury
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 2100 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

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... recently the defence of slavery has laboured under great difficulties, because its apologists (for they were mere apologists) took half-way grounds. They confined the defence of slavery to mere negro slavery, thereby giving up the slavery principle, admitting ...

Published: Wednesday 05 November 1856
Newspaper: Teesdale Mercury
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 1955 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE TEESDALE MERCURY—WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 186?

... was, How far this war wa* waged for the suppression of slavery The primary object of the North was self-preservation as a nation. But the occasion of the war was the long controversy between slavery and freedom. The controversy had been going on for many ...

Published: Wednesday 29 October 1862
Newspaper: Teesdale Mercury
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 3025 | Page: 6 | Tags: none