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... situation, they seem to have the usual amount of cheerful spirits and individual will. Their parents are still living in slavery, and the profits to be derived from the exhibition of the marvellous offspring are to be devoted to their emancipation. They ...

Published: Saturday 22 September 1855
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 786 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

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... party of Chockaws was encamped on the banks of the Mississippi. If I cannot induce them to save a child of their race from slavery—if they have so quickly become dege- nerated that such a project moves them not—I will try a more powerful means: I will try ...

Published: Saturday 06 October 1855
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1156 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

THE AFRICAN TWINS

... knowledge of the English language. Their names are Milly and Christina. They are the children of parents now in a state of slavery in America, and the proceeds of their exhibition are to be applied to their liberation. The interest of the case rests mainly ...

Published: Saturday 03 November 1855
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 189 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

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... at length resulted in freeing the public from the monopoly of both; and this dispute was a notable example of theSsort of slavery our neighbours the French endure. English manu- facturers stoutly contended against the exportation of British wool, lest ...

Published: Saturday 08 December 1855
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 931 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

PRO-SLAVERY FEELING IN AMERICA

... PRO-SLAVERY FEELING IN AMERICA. It appears that in the Disciples' College, at Bethany, Virginia, it is the custom for the students to elect, under the rules of a literary society in the institution, one of their members to preach on the Sunday evening ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1856
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 972 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

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... not hesitated to publish in her book opinions favourable to negro slavery, even to the extent of dogmatically saying that God created Negroes to live under restraint, and that slavery is a means designed by Providence for the making of some good Christian ...

Published: Saturday 02 February 1856
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 489 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

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... in Kansas had been renewed, and a collision had occurred between the pro and anti-slavery party. The ballot-boxes were destroyed and the voting stopped. An anti-slavery man's house was burnt. A man was arrested, charged with having set the house on fire ...

Published: Saturday 02 February 1856
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 302 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

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... Suffolk papers record the death at Play- ford-hall, of Mrs. Clarkson, the relict of Thomas Clar'kson tlie celebrated anti-slavery champion who stood so staunchly by Wilberforce in his efforts on behalf of the African race. Mrs Clarkson was for many years ...

Published: Saturday 16 February 1856
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 158 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Personal

... Chamberlain. Her position is therefore merely nominal, and, whatever opinion Her Majesty may have respecting Miss Murray's pro-slavery predilections, it has not been evinced in any way to affect that lady's material interests. DROUYN DE LHUYS, in order to obtain ...

Published: Saturday 16 February 1856
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 2536 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

JOURNALISM IN WASHINCTON

... harsh and provoking, if his own friends had not spoken of it substantially as I did. But Mr. M'Mullen, who is a violent Pro-Slavery Democrat, has repeatedly spoken of it, in pub- lic and in private, quite as severely as I did. He stigmatised it in the House ...

Published: Saturday 23 February 1856
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 952 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

iEpitmne oi J^mgn & domestic

... £ 1,500 to the A ™ JaPd {>o1? subject to the life-rent of his two sisters. A resolution, declaring any agitation of the slavery question iinwise and unjust to a portion of the American people and injurious to every section, and ought not to be countenanced ...

Published: Saturday 23 February 1856
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1839 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

SCENES IN KANSAS

... Friday night. It was now publicly known that some of the firing at Dawson's the day previous had taken effect. One of the pro-slavery men named Cook, a Missourian, was shot in the abdomen, and has since died. Several others were wounded. On our side none were ...

Published: Saturday 01 March 1856
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1472 | Page: 2 | Tags: News