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NEUTRALITY OR INTERVENTION?

... Eb oje that the end of this business is to he the ex- tinction of slavery ? hut, if not, are we to become Ithe virtual guaruaters for its security ? To nay mmn1, in the w ord 'slavery' is comprehended .a p lerpetual bar to the notion of English mediation ...

Published: Wednesday 19 November 1862
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 677 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

Christian public of Britain see to it that they support the African missions already being formed follow up the ..

... till the year 1808 ; but this, if it be held to have reference to African slavery—which it does not meation —most also be held to be an anti-slavery provision. The abettors of slavery in those days conld not have their purpose better served than perfect silence ...

Published: Friday 30 March 1860
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2144 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

vicious traffic has not ceased. Occasionally it has diminished ; after interval, however, it has again raised ..

... cany new ones, tending to facilitate the ultimate extinction of slavery. The Federal Government has comparatively little power over the separate States ; it cannot abolish or fetter slavery of its own accord; it can, however, prevent its extension. The ...

Published: Saturday 24 November 1860
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1009 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE PROSPECT OF PEACE IN AMERICA

... the American people decided that slavery should die, and that the commonwealth should live. . Since that day the result has not been doubt. ful, and it is now becoming apparent. Physically, morally, and politically, slavery and oligarchy have succumbed. ...

Published: Monday 30 January 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1530 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S AMNESTY

... those means to pacify the States, to re- organiee society, and to put down, once for all, the legal sanctions of human slavery. Slavery once at an end, and the blacks settled down as a humble but free population, making their own way by study, and thrift ...

Published: Tuesday 29 December 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 536 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE LONDON EMANCIPATION SOCIETY

... year. After observing that Pre- sident Lincoln has appointed the 1st of January 1863 as the day on which he will declare slavery to be abolished in the rebel States, and inviting every section of the Christian public to pray that Divine Providence may ...

Published: Saturday 13 December 1862
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 540 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

MR BRIGHT AND GEORGE THOMPSON

... American continent, and he may see in the not' . distapt fature the abolitiou of slavery in Cuba and in Brazil, for-I am persuaded that when the United States are free from slavery as England is;i t theunited opinion.of the two nations will do much to destroy ...

Published: Tuesday 19 January 1864
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 500 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE REV. HENRY WARD BEECHER AND THE AMERICAN QUESTION

... magnitude of the task has un- folded itself. As to the connection of the war with the slavery question, he affirms that men of all parties are now convinced Chit slavery is the cause of their trouble, and that there will be no security for the Northern community ...

Published: Monday 13 July 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1300 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

are bays in which cables can hid without injury from ice being fully confirmed. regard the American term’uus of the

... traijthat the commerce of the United States is almost, if not quite as much committed to slavery as its agriculture ; for what would New York be without slavery ? What, alas, would Liverpool and Manchester? What this metropolis? Cannot all the partners ...

Published: Wednesday 05 December 1860
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 203 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WHAT ORIGINATED THE SOUTHERN REBELLION

... 'to; undermine humau sla'very,' I 'saw, of 'course, that you were : misinformed as to the whole matter. ! The 'slaveholderd saw that the inevitable tendency of events and of the times in this country was to the overthroT of slavery. The great North was ...

Published: Thursday 04 May 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1365 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

REV. DR CHEEVER IN EDINBURGH

... evil of American slavery. The great Republican party merely aimed to prevent the extension of slavery into fresh territories, and as a party would not object to the Fugitive Slave Law ; but the Church of God sought to abolish slavery at once, and from ...

Published: Saturday 17 November 1860
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1873 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

DIN BURGH BIBLE SOCIEXT^

... Scotland and tne several other countries of the world. AMERICAN SLAVERY. compliance with the wishes of many Friends this Oily, the Kev. CHEEVER, of NEW YORK, will deliver TWO LECTURES on SLAVERY, itat present exists America, in its Legal, Social, and Keligiovs ...

Published: Monday 26 November 1860
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 191 | Page: 1 | Tags: none