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THE SOUTH SEA KIDNAPPERS

... THE SOUTH SEA KIDNAPPERS. With the exception Brsz'l, slavery, legalised instku'ion, hiM ceased to «x'nt in any country claiming to civilised. In Africa slavery is still rampant, but the slave trade is longer engaged in by foreigners, the traffic being ...

THOMPSON,

... deprecate discussions and controversies among persons engaged in the pursuit of the same object, such as that the abolition of slavery, as they tend impede and retard the accomplishment of the great object which is their common aim. These party disputes weaken ...

Literature

... Houses, in the course of which proposed that Missouri should be ad- mitted as a State without any prohibition of slavery, but that slavery should be for ever prohibited in all the territory ceded by France, lying north of 36 deg. 30 min. north lati- tude ...

AMERICA. TO THE EDITOR OF THE PAISLEY HERALD. New York, U. 8., May 21, 1861. EFFECT OF THE WAR IN

... American citizens with the ery of slavery. Again and -again have we been reminded of this one foul blot upon our escutcheon. Time after time we have been pointed to the generosity and magnanimity of England in exterminating slavery from her colonies, and now ...

JOHNSTONE

... the aspertions of modern writers. Mr Stoddard, of Thornhill House, gives the next lecture his subject being, Freedom or Slavery the issue of the Civil War in America. The lecture will be delivered on Tuesday next, and General Macdowall of Garthland ...

tinucs to progress, until the time may be expected to arrive when space will be annihilated. 'These remarks ..

... why the system of slavery has many defenders, we now beg to refer to the prospect of its abolition, so far as the present war is concerned. There are many who think that Mr Lincoln is intensely favourable to the abolition of slavery. In principle he is ...

Published: Saturday 14 May 1864
Newspaper: Renfrewshire Independent
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1561 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

PEOPLE OF ONE IDEA

... of these one-idea idolators. She acquired celebrity by an extra- vagant over-drawn fiction describing the horrors of black slavery, and of course a certain spice of womanly vanity to keep herself before the public is mixed up with the moral idea which she ...

FUGITIVE SLAVES IN CANADA

... inland traffic in slavery, and were that market not afforded, the annual increase of slavery there would soon ran ler their value unproductive. lf this mar►et was not afforded, death blow would be given to the institution of slavery i:self. From this ...

Published: Saturday 19 May 1860
Newspaper: Renfrewshire Independent
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1125 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE DAILT 11111

... Argyll and Mr Milner Oibson. The noble lord's references to slavery contain a clear and decirive condemnation of that crime. We are not told, as we once were by a Cabinet Minister, that slavery is a thing about which men may entertain their several opinions ...

Published: Saturday 03 October 1863
Newspaper: Renfrewshire Independent
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 262 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

aBOLITIoN 07 SLiaVa

... condition be better or worse? Names are nothing. If he be brought to poverty and starvation, that is slavery. And, however a man may hate tyranny or slavery as a system of social or industrial life, and long to see it supplanted by free and equal relations ...

Published: Saturday 21 February 1863
Newspaper: Renfrewshire Independent
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 820 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

AMERICAN PROSPECTS-THE NEGRO

... AMERICAN PROSPECTS-THE NEGRO. A writer in the Pall Mall Gazette says:— 4 1 no lover of slavery. Few persons are more alive to the evil influences it exercises on the ruling race—to its bad economy, its dangers, its temptations, its frightful possible ...

ARRIVAL OF THE PERUVIAN

... Republic Convention assembled yesterday. Senator Sumner made a speech, in which he states that neither the rebellion nor slavery was ended, or would be until the negroes were placed upon a full equality with the whites before the law. The rebels must ...

Published: Saturday 30 September 1865
Newspaper: Renfrewshire Independent
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 223 | Page: 2 | Tags: none