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HOW WE TALK OF THE WAR

... those states lieing inoiudod in tho sumo pacification as (ircat Britain, and to obtain a gotioral abolition of Christian slavery. To these demands tho Hoys Tunis and Tripoli at onoo agreed j hut Doy of Algiers refused consent to tho last, on tho ground ...

Published: Thursday 01 March 1855
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2640 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

OPPOSE V ILL ANY WITH YOUR. UTMOST VIGOUR

... once submitted, and the oonolnsion peace was auimnnced by salute of twenty-one guns. Tim terms were the abolition Christian slavery for over; the instant delivery of all the slaves of all Christian nations; the restitution all money received for slaves sinoo ...

Published: Thursday 01 March 1855
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 616 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

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... the summit , I* your head lies its jiillow this ni-lit Pfii’SJiauod that, us for you and your family, you will no loneor be slavery to old dniiluug customs. Ilesolvo, and toll your who your good resolution. Sho will aid it all she can. Her step will lighter ...

Published: Monday 02 April 1855
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 356 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

A TU.miK HEART MAKES A BLOOMING VISAGE

... Smoking arc extracted from a recent number of Leisure Hour, ami bear testimony to tho thoughts of old smoker his from tho slavery of a bad habit A quarter of a century ago, 1 began to master twodillieull attainments. I learnt to shave, and learnt smoke ...

Published: Friday 01 June 1855
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3276 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

SCHAMYL AND HIS SON

... promise of carrying out, was suddenly cut short, and a violent and inglorious death, or a wearying life of imprisonment or slavery, was tho only prospect before him. lint tho Emperor Nicholas, tyrant and oppressor ho was, possessed some magnanimous qualities ...

Published: Friday 01 June 1855
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 775 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

GOOD ACTIONS ARE THE MOST ACCEPTABLE SACRIFICE

... this occasion, for 1 had seen the How” before ; and could not enter into his feelings all as man who was able to contrast slavery with liberty in his own person; for, blessed God, could say with Paul to the Tribune, I was free horn.” Yet my imagination—as ...

Published: Monday 01 October 1855
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4518 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

FACTS, FIGURES, AND FICTION

... showers her most precious gifts, the sight would so annoy her that she would immediately scratch her eyes out. Dr. Johnson Slavery.—Boswell and Johnson were conversing upon the conduct of a planter, who so flogged his slave that he died. The doctor thundered: ...

Published: Saturday 01 March 1856
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3938 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

THE RED MEN OF THE FAR WEST

... primitive forests: he looks with contempt on the life of the settler—his soul loves danger and warfare, it hates civilization and slavery—and he prefers extermination to the abrogation of the customs aud the dearlyloved liberty of his fathers Alas, for them ...

Published: Saturday 01 March 1856
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2595 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

ACKLINGTON TOTAL ABSTINENCE SOCIETY

... feature; and here he eloquently portrayed the social evils of intemperance, and on contrasting these, with those of American slavery, drew a heavy balance against drinking, more particularly because undermined the moral and spiritual elements of human nature ...

Published: Saturday 01 March 1856
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 2228 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SLAVE TORTURE IN AMERICA

... slave-holding interests of the South are opposed to such measure. The contest between the North and South, or the anti-slavery and pro-slavery parties which they represent, has long raged in the House of Congress, and it felt that the resort to a more serious ...

Published: Wednesday 01 October 1856
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1555 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

Foreign Gossip

... liberalism ; he is not thorough abolitionist, but he desires to restrict slavery within its present bounds, and gradually to secure its selfabolition, knowing, as he does, that slavery will, if unprotected by the laws of the States, work its own downfall ...

Published: Monday 01 December 1856
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 2135 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

FACTS, FIGURES AND FICTION

... very cold ; Sunday after Christmas-day, a child to be baptised—but no clergyman ! Crew and Passengers of an English Ship in Slavery. statement of a most extraordinary character was made public in the Underwriters' Rooms, at Liverpool, on the 13th ult., from ...

Published: Monday 02 February 1857
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2919 | Page: 10 | Tags: none