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WARLIKE PREPARATION* IN PRANCE

... said it wee a ein, objected to the instant abdulitiva of slavery. whole question “Is slavery a sin or pot ?”* There w- oa great deal of pious rbetoric and eentimen- talism spert on this theme. Slavery was called sinfal becauss evile grow out of it. He denied ...

IATED REFORMERS’ ADDRESS THE ASSOC PRESIDENT LINCOLN. TO THE EDITOR OF THE PAISLEY HERALD, Mr Epitor,—I was ..

... at a loss to know, when they have, and still maintain, slavery to the very teeth. We are aware that the war now waging with the two belligerent Powers is not for the purpose of abolish- ing slavery at all, but, on the contrary, will have a great effect ...

THE REV. HENRY WARD BEECHER ON THE AMERICAN CRISIS

... enter into an examination of American slavery—in liberty and slave-y. ita theory and its practical workinz—to satisfy you that, in| the nature of things, slavery must corrupta free nation. (Hear, hear.) Liberty and slavery cannot long co-exist under one Government ...

Mrs Beecher Stowe has written a reply to the address of the women of England, sent to her some years

... to the address of the women of England, sent to her some years since, urging the abolition of slavery in the United States. She says that the great anti-slavery work to which their English sisters exhorted them is almost done. Holloway's Ointment * Pills ...

FREDERICK DOUGLASS LECTURING IN NEW YORK

... carried with him the sympathy of the erowd. He was earnest and emphatic in his of the evils of slavery, and was very load in his praise of Mr Lincoln for the slavery proclamation, he was equally decided in bis denunciation of the hypocrisy of the Northern ...

THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA

... contest to be more pro-slavery than did the North to be antislavery. But in reality the North were fighting against slavery as much as the South for it; for if the South succeeded they would establish a slave power; if they foiled, slavery would receive a blow ...

Published: Saturday 05 October 1861
Newspaper: Greenock Advertiser
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 676 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

THE CHEEVER MEETING ON MONDAY

... influential men on the subject slavery. Upwards of thirty years ago, when lie was minister of St Georges, had his congregation a considerab e number of wealthy West India planters. At that time, and some his brethren joined the i-slavery society, and it not very ...

NOVEMBER 28, 1863

... condemn American slavery an outrage upon human right, a cruel ',crone, perpe• tested upon a h-Ipless and unoffending people.' It stated by the Chairman that the object aimed at in both resolutions being the condemnation of slavery, Its could not exactly ...

Published: Saturday 28 November 1863
Newspaper: Renfrewshire Independent
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 147 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

PAISLEY HERALD AND RENFREWSHIRE ADVERTISER

... amendment of the Constitution, abolishing slavery in the United States. It requires twothirds the States to approve any alteration in the before it can adopted, but as all the Northern States had previously abolished slavery with two exceptions—Kentucky and Deleware ...

PUBLIC MEETING ON THE AMERICAN QUESTION

... the North has been carrying out an anti-slavery policy-sometimes wavering and xig-xag indeed, but which has been gradually beooming more and more defined, and is now emphatic and pronounced. It has abolished slavery in the district of Columbia; prohibited ...

AMERICA

... reported adversely to Mr Sumners’ amendment to the Constitution abolishing slavery, but favourably the resolution declaring that Congress shall have power to legislate that slavery shall not exist within the United States. New York, February 12.—The Confederates ...

Published: Tuesday 23 February 1864
Newspaper: Greenock Advertiser
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 410 | Page: 1 | Tags: none