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PROPOSBD ABOLITION OP SLAVERY

... PROPOSBD ABOLITION OP SLAVERY. At the last session of Congress, »,proposed amendment of the Constitution abolishing slavery throughout the United States passed the Senate, but failed for lack the requisite two-thirds vote in the Honse of Representatives ...

Published: Saturday 24 December 1864
Newspaper: Aberdeen People's Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 142 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

MR SEWARD AND THE TWO PLATFORMS

... any influence on the anti-Slavery policy of the l'resident, it seems to us that the use made recently in the English Confederate journals of his last speech at Auburn on the taking of Atlanta and the position of the Slavery question, shows more of the ...

love of power which, in one form or another, is the strongest and most abiding passion in the human breast

... struggle, it will give to slavery the heaviest of the blows which it has received in the course of the whole war. We do not doubt that the few far-sighted minds of the South are aware of this, and that they are determined that, if slavery is to perish, it shall ...

THE VITALITY AND TENACITY OF

... THE VITALITY AND TENACITY OF SLAVERY. (From the Spcctotor.) 'fun more we know of the inner life of the Slave States of America the more evident it becomes that they cling to slavery, not merely and not chiefly with that tenacity with which men cling to ...

AUCHTERLESS

... Wednesday, in Lady Burnett’s School, the Bev. Wm. Sharman, Aberdeen subject—“ John Brown, the anti-slavery martyr, and the prospects of the abolition of slavery.” The lecture was listened to with great attention very respectable, although small, audience. ...

Published: Saturday 26 November 1864
Newspaper: Aberdeen People's Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 294 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE PEACE RUMOURS IN AMERICA

... and union under Mr Lincoln's administration, which means war upon secession and slavery until they both go down for ever ; or an effort at peace and union under pro-slavery Democratic administration, which will negoeiate. and conciliate, and compromise ...

ments, and instead of inflicting a fine on the benefactors of the sufferers, it would be more becoming of your

... over so many dwelling.. As sure as God is God, be has no attribute that can take sides with human slavery. Therefore our triumph is certain. But slavery must die. The North was complicated in the humble crime, and we must suffer. Amen, I say ; and will ...

THE CHICAGO CONVENTION

... disloyalty, indeed, it is not too much to affirm that the war would have long since been brought to triumphant conclusion, and Slavery for ever wiped out from the North American continent. To that party belong the Woods, Seymours, and Yalandighams, whose secret ...

Published: Saturday 17 September 1864
Newspaper: Aberdeen People's Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1202 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

A SLAVEOWNER ON ENGLISH WORKMEN

... le and laborious tasks. He could not have believed till he came to this country that such work could be got done without slavery. It seemed to him impossible, without the use of force, to induce men to undertake and continue to perform such tasks. It ...

Published: Saturday 14 May 1864
Newspaper: Aberdeen People's Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 161 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

AMERICAN POLITICS

... claims, the questionofboun- tl daries is not less grave and perilous than the question e of union, with slavery or without it. Union, with slavery, witb 150,000 liberated negroes in the Fede- d ral armies, and three and a-half millions of slaves a declared ...

Published: Wednesday 14 September 1864
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1768 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

ERNBURGH ORLIN MARKET—Wednesday,

... nations of men. Swiss Liberty, thou Goddess fair, Oh! when shall ♦LL thy blessings share, And all the human race he free From Slavery's thrall? then shall we see The wretches in her dark domains Arise triumphant from their chains, With thankful heart and bended ...

ourselves said in the first number of this journal, the cry becomes contemptible indeed when shuffled forth as the

... as 1 those opinions may be, it is worse than useless for pro-Southern journals in this country to deny the connection of slavery with the war now desolating that unhappy country. It has been from the beginning, is now, and shall be till the end, the issue ...

Published: Saturday 24 September 1864
Newspaper: Huntly Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1096 | Page: 2 | Tags: none