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TWENTY-SEVEN MURDERS BY GUERILLAS IN EAST TENNESSEE

... TWENTY-SEVEN MURDERS BY GUERILLAS IN EAST TENNESSEE. Brownlow's Knoxville Whig publishes a letter dated at Cleveland, Tennessee, December 5, giving the details of horrible murders committed in Polk and Bradley counties by roving bands of guerillas. On ...

Published: Saturday 04 February 1865
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1392 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

THE LEEDS REFORM MEETING

... infu- sion of young blood into the aristocratic portionof ?? party, and especially among those whom we may term the official Whigs. Not one of them has been known in recent tisnesto give uttarance to words calculated to stir the heart of the people. In feeble ...

Published: Friday 03 February 1865
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 933 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

EARL RUSSELL AND REFORM

... of the Test and Corporation Acts, Roman Catholic Emanci- pation; Municipal Reform, Poor-law Amendment, and many other great Whig measures, recorded with natural and just pride; whilst the independence of Belgium and Greece, and the recognition of Italian ...

Published: Saturday 18 February 1865
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2273 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

OPENING OF PARLIAMENT

... Hon.' Member ought to have remembered that the history of thas Whig party for the last thirty years had been that of pledges loosely given and instantaneously broken. In point of fact, a Whig in office was an ugly dog well muzzled. He corm plained that ...

Published: Wednesday 08 February 1865
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4426 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

LOCAL AND GENERAL

... Permissive Bill a popular politl- cal question, and that when Parliament was dissolved he hoped that every candidate, whether Whig or Tory, would be boldly, earnestly, honestly, and fairly tested in regard to the Permissive Bill, and he had no doubt but ...

Published: Wednesday 01 February 1865
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2865 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL

... Others said that the country needed farmers, and that the people should bedividedinto soldiers and producers. The Richmond, Whig, of the 18th, publishes an impor- tant letter from Jeff. Davis on the resolutions introduced in the rebel House of Representatives ...

Published: Friday 03 February 1865
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1975 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE CONSERVATIVES AND THE REPEAL OF THE MALT TAX

... Government could not be carried on without the money raised by it, and the decision was reversed. And what was declared by Whigs and Tories to be impossible in 1834, when the national expenditure was under forty mil- lions, Is not to be done at a stroke ...

Published: Friday 10 February 1865
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2106 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE LEEDS REFORM MEETING

... is a ' moderate Reformer. The caution was perhaps nLecessary, though the remarks :t prefaced are legibly stamped with the Whig trade-mark. Lor. Auiborley's theory is exceedingly ex- lensive. The franchise, he contends, belongs of right to a free people ...

Published: Saturday 04 February 1865
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4553 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

THE LEEDS MERCURY AND THE PERMISSIVE BILL

... the truth, they were sure to complain of somebody who had The Radicals ?? grossly exaggerate the evils of drunkenness; the Whigs, the Liberals-You cannot exagge- rate them. Then the iMcrcuryhadthisstatement- Thelaw, so often called in to check evils of ...

Published: Tuesday 14 February 1865
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2391 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

EARL RUSSELL ON THE REFORM BILL OF 1832

... scene In the House of Commons on the 1st of March was unexampled. The plan went so far beyond all expecta- tion, that the Whigs wondered whether it could possibly be carried; the Tories concluded that It certainly could not - and the Radicals with justifiable ...

Published: Wednesday 22 February 1865
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2604 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL

... with General Butler, with one additional brigade, and nuin- bering not less than 10,000 men. CONFEDERATE ACCOUNT. The Bichmond Whig of the 17th contains the following account of the capture of Fort Fisher: - FALL OF FORT FISHER. The unwelcome news of the ...

Published: Wednesday 01 February 1865
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5643 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

LATEST NEWS

... movement, without however indulging in a false senI1Try. IIB-Th olwn dvrieeti AN Arvoioy vo-x% FxELING BLUE.-(FrOm' the ?? Whig of Jan. 5,)-Let us be blue. Why not? Blue is a beautiful colour. It is the colour of the sky and of the sea; it is the colour ...

Published: Wednesday 08 February 1865
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3082 | Page: 3 | Tags: News