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LORD BROUGHAM AND THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY

... expedition, and. upori th6 fate of those -ho..iiuiered fortlheir 'conduct in it.. No one will doubt; ', eyrn' g desjre to 'see slavery .,extinguighed- ',bub .ft esire can 'only be gratifijedl& .lawful:mealns-ma strict 'regard to the rights o propprty, er Wt ...

Published: Monday 07 January 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 438 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

DR GUTHRIE ON AMERICAN SLAVERY

... aid Governor Hicks in suppressing a slave revolt in Maryland -and Northern pro-slavery men are saying, We -will go and lick the South, and keep the negroes in their slavery - still, all these events and pledges, and many others of a similar character ...

Published: Monday 01 July 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2220 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

ANNUAL MEETINGS OF THE SYNOD OF THE U.P.CRURCH AND THE GENERAL ASSEMBLIES OF THE ESTABLISHED AND FREE CHURCHES

... comes at last for slavery. Sla- very is the root of the whole matter-of the disunion-of the national dissolution and of the war. Sooner or later the North will see this in its true light. Slavery has interrupted all busi- ness - slavery has carried our ...

Published: Monday 13 May 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2003 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

MRS HARRIET BEECHER STOWE ON THE AMERICAN QUESTION

... carried on during the course of the last century by the united forces of the anti-slavery people of Eng- land and America. We consider it as the great decisive issue of the slavery question in the civi- lised world. The causes which brought on this wa-l first ...

Published: Thursday 12 September 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2935 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE STATE OF AFFAIRS IN AMERICA

... munch for the INerti, achicis is increasingly anti- slavery. The South, on the other hiand, is *uere in- tensely pro-slavery than ever before. her leading statesmen alniest unanimnously defond slavery as the ssormat strtt of socitry ! They iusist tha ...

Published: Saturday 06 April 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1064 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

WENDELL PHILLIPS ON THE AMERICAN CRISIS

... is the peroration of an ezxeenpore speech lately delivered in Boston, U.S., by Mr Phillips, the most eloquent of the anti-slaverY pasty in the Northern States:- Severed from us, South Carolina must have a Government. YAon see now a reignof terror-threats ...

Published: Monday 18 February 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 812 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE MEMBERS FOR GLASGOW AND THEIR CONSTITUENTS

... wellbeing till they shall have blotted slavery from their federal cod--(loud cheers). For many years it has been the policy of public writers andstatesmen inthis country to avoidthe irritating topic of American slavery. It was hoped that the Southern States ...

Published: Thursday 24 January 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 703 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

Literary Notices

... most instances of any of wilful intention thereby to bolster up slavery in in any of its forms, but merely of want of due re- flection, an easy adoption of the popular notion e that slavery was a Jewish institution, notwithstand- A., ing that it is susceptible ...

DR CHEEVER OF NEW YORK

... of the slave 'poxver, stronger slave laws, a new free, dom for the range of slavery over the whole country,. and alterations in the.. Constitution itself for the sake of slavery; and meanwhile there were eminent northern ministers who de- manded in addition ...

Published: Tuesday 05 February 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4329 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THE AMERICAN DIFFICULTY

... right to decree the abolition of Slavery. Slavery u-as guaranteed by the constitution], and l'resident Lincoln had sworn to maintain that comisttutiom. Granited this was not, as it could be, a war for the abolition of slavery, still it wvas hioped that it ...

Published: Friday 20 December 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2271 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE PRESENT CRISIS IN AMERICA

... thereby ca- uthe foundations out below slavery;' but t just look at New York. It is a notorious fact that the merchants of New York, in the reverence they have for the dollar, have been the. main- r stays of slavery; It is New York dollars that have built ...

Published: Friday 10 May 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 7259 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE

... declareil abolition of slavery on the part of tihe Washington Goverument. At the conclusion of his addLress, Dr Urivick, of Irelan(l, expressed lris satisfaction with the decided tone of the slneaker on the question of slavery, and proposedl a resolution ...

Published: Friday 13 September 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 993 | Page: 4 | Tags: News