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INTEMPERANCE AND SLAVERY

... Tom, when a pro-slavery lady remarked re that as regards the slavery question, there was t-much to be said on both sides. He did not nt think, however, that there was anything to be said truthfully or nobly on the side of n slavery ; and in the same ...

Published: Saturday 05 April 1862
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1477 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

HORRORS OF SLAVERY

... HORRiORS OF SLAVERY. An officer of the 17th Massachusetts Regiment, writing from Newbern, N.C., gives the following account of his recent experiences, copied from the Washington Republican:- I had intended to have answered your last letter more fully ...

Published: Saturday 27 September 1862
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 475 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THE CLERGY AND SLAVERY

... THE CLERGY AND SLAVERY. (rRoX THE DAILY NEWS.) Wo take leave to call attention. to the cireum- VMances attending the redemption of a woman and two children from slavery in Georgia, as described in a letter which we publish from the Rev. John Ourwen, of ...

Published: Thursday 02 October 1862
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 978 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

SECESSION AND SLAVERY

... SECESSION AND SLAVERY. The following song by Whittier, the American poet, has just appeared in the New York journals. Its publication shows the immense progrers which the cause of Abolition haq made within the last twelve months:- B5IN' YngTE BUild lST ...

INTEMPERANCE AND SLAVERY

... INTEMPERANCE AND SLAVERY. Last night, Mr Jabez inwards of London de- livered a lecture on the above subject in Rich- mond Place Chapel, under the auspices of the Edinburgh Total Abstinence Society. The chair was occupied by Mr Thomas Knox, and there was ...

Published: Thursday 03 April 1862
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 528 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

FREDERICK DOUGLASS ON SLAVERY

... operat- ing against our special anti-slavery agencies. It is contended that the abolition of slavery by this war is a certain event, that one or the other party to the war, the South or the North, will abolish slavery from necessity; and that there- fore ...

Published: Friday 17 October 1862
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 578 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

PRESIDENT LINCOLN ON SLAVERY

... office- seekers, for they occasioned him much trouble and perplexity. Thenextmosttroublesome subject was slavery. He agreed with the memorialists that slavery was wrong, and differed only in re- spect to the ways and means of getting rid of it. The extract from ...

Published: Tuesday 08 July 1862
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 708 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

PRESIDENT LINCOLN AND SLAVERY

... PRESIDENT JLNCOLN ANM SLAVERY.I (FFoA1 THrE SPEiCTATOr.) The President, so far from going back from the policy of freedom, has talen a longer step in ad- vance. If the South continues to fihgt, their slaves will be emancipated without their consent, asanmeasu ...

Published: Saturday 27 December 1862
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 595 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT

... recovered States by force 0orld l probably give rise. As an anti-slavery uao lie was satistied that slavery Was not far froin its dath; hit, said he, ' What I dlo not iwait to scC is thlat slavery in this dcath stn~l e sh ould involve the best institlltions ...

Published: Saturday 29 March 1862
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1534 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

MR BRIGHT ON SLAVERY

... because it happlened to S hav-e withino its boi iestenttton of slavery, t hateful a3 that ?? is buit in this case f it is a ne~w StLit0 intending to set itselF op1 Y on thle ?? basis of slavery-(cries of 'No(, nI no(,,i whiell were d,-o ,vied in cheers) ...

Published: Monday 22 December 1862
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4389 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE AND THE SLAVERY QUESTION

... Birks, M. A., admitted that there was a strong anti-slavery feeling in the country but asserted that, on Constitutional grounds, there were many who synipathised with the South. The first mention of slavery in Scripture was in connection with a divine promise ...

Published: Saturday 18 October 1862
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 622 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

PICTURES OF SLAVERY IN THE SOUTHERN STATES

... PICTURES.OF SLAVERY IN, THE ,: > SOUTHERN STATES.' . A MILD CLIMATE. no Speak~ing of the cliniate of the dojin try, 'I was no informed, that a ?? of tlhe folk's wtont bare- trz foot all winiter, though they htid'snoiw Much of the time four 'or' ii'e lniehes ...