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SLAVERY DOOMED

... destruction of slavery is not so. In Southern language slavery used to be described as involuntary servitude. If that de- scription is to be retained, and the system lately, proclainied by General'Banks is to be adopted, the abolition of slavery will not ...

Published: Monday 28 March 1864
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 800 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

RESOLUTIONS AGAINST SLAVERY

... RESOLUTIONS AGAINST SLAVERY. The following resolutions have been adopted by the Syracuse Convention:- - PResolved ,-That in the political struggle on which we now enter we accept and commend the doings of the late Union National Convention at Baltimore ...

Published: Monday 03 October 1864
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 566 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE CONGREGATIONAL UNION AND SLAVERY

... you have now arrived at the conclusion that tho slavery question cannot be dis- cussed-apart from the rebellion and its causes. The declaration of the rebels of their intention to found an empire on slavery as its corner stone made this clear from the ...

Published: Friday 02 December 1864
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2256 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE VICTORY OVER REBELLION AND SLAVERY

... THE VICTORY OVER REBELLION AND SLAVERY. 8Proessor Rogers, of Glasgow University, has E favoured us with the following extract from a aletter just received by him from his brother, Pro- fessor Wmn. B. Rogers, of America. It is, we , believe, a faithful ...

Published: Thursday 01 December 1864
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3123 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

MR HORACE GREELEY ON PEACE AND SLAVERY

... could get their independence if they would abolish slavery; but they know as well as two and two make four that if slavery were abolished they could not keep up the Confederacy four years. When slavery shall pass out of this country there will be no power ...

Published: Friday 30 September 1864
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1973 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

A HARVEST OF GOOD THINGS

... seeking a return to the Union on the basis of freedom to all, and of the abolition and prohibition of slavery. 21. The abolition and prohibition of slavery r- by an amendment of the Constitution passed in the Senate by a two-thirds majority, and, by 3- nearly ...

Published: Thursday 11 August 1864
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 896 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

DR MASSLE ON THE AMERICAN WAR

... perpetuating the this system of slavery. They had declared that they would~ spread slavery in the colonies of ~the TIlaited States, that they had tise vast regionsn of Mexico over w~hich threy could spread the ~blessing of slavery. They c~aballed and took Counrsel ...

Published: Thursday 13 October 1864
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1748 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THINGS THAT ARE NOT TRUE CONCERNING THE WAR IN AMERICA

... 'and' .Afr had. any other origin than.the accursed system of Slavery, -with its inevitable concomli. tants. ' . 7. It is not true-That Abraham Lincoln iE, or ever has Veen, a friend to Slavery.. 8. It is not true.-That while Abraham Lin. coln has emancipated ...

Published: Friday 18 November 1864
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 614 | Page: 4 | 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. DR HODGE OF NEW YORK ON THE AMERICAN STRUGGLE

... many divelli'ngs, As sure as God is God, lie las no, attribate: that can' take sides with human. slavery. Therefore our triumph is certain. Batt slavery mast die.. The North was complicated in the horrible. crime, and we must suffer. Amen, I say; and ...

Published: Tuesday 27 September 1864
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 396 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

PROFESSOR HUXLEY AN ABOLITIONIST

... on the other side of the Atlantic. I have no desire, and, indeed, no right, to discuss the vast and difficult question of slavery here but, to set myself free from the suspicion of un- reasoning partisanship, I maybe permitted to say this much, that I ...

Published: Monday 07 March 1864
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 564 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

MR LINCOLN'S DEFENCE OF HIS POLICY

... day in your presence to Governor Bramnlebto and. Senator Dixon.' It was 'about as fllowrs :- I r am naturally anti-slavery.' If slavery is 'not f rwrong, nothing is wrong. It cannot remember E when I did not so think afid feel; and yet I n have never ...

Published: Wednesday 18 May 1864
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1041 | Page: 3 | Tags: News