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Newspaper results for abolitionist*

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143789 matching newspaper pages in total. Washington, DC has the most hits (13696 pages). Showing up to 10 earliest results from this city.

  1. Daily National Intelligencer — 1816-09-21, page 2

    … mihy made cutting allusions to the ab surdity and contradictions of the African abolitionists of parliament, and ridiculed that specie's of humanitij which could in terest itself …

  2. Daily National Intelligencer — 1819-11-23, page 3

    … remark on the abo litionists of England, which applies with equal force to all abolitionists in America, who are not residents of slave-holding states. The patriotism of the …

  3. Daily National Intelligencer — 1820-08-15, page 3

    … pursue a national course: we are opposed, with at least as much sincerity as the abolitionists, to every thing which has a tendency to aggravate the evil and enlarge the sphere …

  4. Daily National Intelligencer — 1821-08-11, page 3

    … National Gazette will find it difficult to persuade his readers that the British abolitionists, with Mr. Wilberforce and Sir James Mackintosh at their head, have been influenced …

  5. Daily National Intelligencer — 1821-09-01, page 2

    … better conclusion, and learn a lesson of pa tience, and of hope. He had heard the Abolitionists called Jabobins and he lived-to hear the Slave Trade stigmatised as one of the …

  6. Daily National Intelligencer — 1821-09-28, page 2

    … has always been at variance with ns professions. Five-and-twenty years ago the abolitionists dis j claimed all intentions ot interfering with the gov ernment and condition …

    … resentment, were lulled into a deceitful security, not by the promi ses of the abolitionists, but by a reliance on Par liament. Parliament is called on to interfere with the …

    … , the slaughter is still more dreadful. Look at this ye philanthropists, and ye abolitionists, and ask yourselves seriously, whether you are promoting the cause of humanity …

  7. Daily National Intelligencer — 1826-03-25, page 3

    … man, but a distinguish ed advocate of the Missouri restriction —an acknowledg ed abolitionist —to plead the cause of the South, at the Congress of Panama. Our policy, with regard …

  8. Daily National Intelligencer — 1827-12-04, page 2

    … world, is not, I believe, denied by any rational citizen, whether slave holder or abolitionist. But that those who thus reproach us are not aware of the immense difficulty of …

    … humanity and liberality of the own rs, who, converted by the zealous efforts of the abolitionists, are to be struck with remorse at holding their fellow beings in .slavery, and …

  9. Daily National Intelligencer — 1829-01-26, page 3

    … Virginia had not attained in twenty-five. He rejoiced that iu this design, the abolitionist and the swve.hohkr could meet upon common ground, and un te ff. rls which seemed …

  10. Daily National Intelligencer — 1831-07-25, page 2

    … wrongs heaped upon us, by a Government in the hands of manufacturers, fanatics, and abolitionists.” “Let the Legislature meet in the spring, and either de clare a separation from …

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