Balance of Power and Pacifist Pamphlet Debate
The article reviews a pamphlet arguing war is not justified to preserve balance of power and questions English intervention in Tahiti and the Piruz blockade. It contends that Russian influence in the East could aid civilization more than Mussulian rule and critiques Pacific arbitration as utopian, urging readers to study the pamphlet before forming conclusions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Turkey
England
Tahiti
France
Don Pacifico
Peace Party
Slavery narrative review and objections in England
A long critical notice promotes a book by Louis Alexis Craimzrovzow about John Brown, detailing alleged abuses in Georgia slavery, the Underground Railroad, and a case of John Glasgow. It attacks Miss Bremer and Miss Ward, asserts slavery’s horrors, and discusses abolitionist arguments, with digressions on Gavazzi, dancing, atheism, and John Foster. The piece warns English readers about the brutal realities of the southern slave system and calls for abolition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia
John Brown
England
Louis Alexis Craimzrovzow
New Bond-street
Miss Bremer
New World
South
North
William Chambers
United States
Betty Moore
Jersey James
American Republic
John Glasgow
Liverpool
Savannah
Thomas Stevens
Brown
Stevens
Queen Victoria
Charleston
Africa
Government policy on foreign slave trade misjudged
The text condemns U S actions regarding the foreign slave trade, arguing the government has never properly enforced piracy laws against it. It calls the anti slavery stance dishonourable to the Republic and harmful to human liberty, noting professions in and out of Congress on the matter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
United States
Republic
The Poet and France in Glory and Slavery
The poem attacks France for hollow glories and lost freedom while criticizing Napoleon's domination. It laments empty trophies, crushed liberties, and a people enslaved despite apparent republican ideals, contrasting past triumphs with present subservience under war and dictatorship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Napoleon
Europe
Reform is an omnibus just going to start
The passage ponders vanity that never dies from overindulgence and mocks reform as a perpetual work in progress. It compares Cerberus as a bus-keeper, notes friends crack under heat, and laughs at delicate ladies faking illness while warning about secret-keeping fools. It also cites Madrid’s tranquility as unnecessary reassurance and warns a parent’s strike boomerangs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cerberus
Madrid
Quotations and quips from Punch and peers in Paris and Pall Mall
A mash of wry maxims and social jests from Punch and related sources. Remarks on time, harvest humor, Know-Nothings, and anti-query satire mix with jokes about tailor fits, grog requests, and St Patrick's night excuses. Mentions Scythians, earth in Texas, and European politics, with snatches of humorous anecdotes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Pall Mall
America
England
Punch
Sebastopol
St. Patrick’s Night
Johnson
Diogenes
Peace Meeting in Newcastle Met with War Debate
A large audience gathered in Newcastle on Thursday at a Peace Meeting led by George Thompson. The debate opposed by ultra-democrats supported war against Russia while advocates of peace argued for restraint and a negotiated settlement, with speakers including Josery Cowen and Juiax Harney.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newcastle-On-Tyne
George Thompson
Friends of Peace
Russia
Sipvey Hernert
Lord Aberdeen
Patmens Ton
Lord Clarenton
Turkey
Society of Friends
Ravon Copps
Thosrrson
Newcastle Guardian
Newcastle
Mr. Thompson
Poland
Kossuth
Thompson
France
Europe
Jerusalem
H. Seyueur
London
Constantinople
Mins
Chiborf
Nicholas
Danube
Black Sea
Cowen
Harney
Josery Cowen
Barkerites
Cooperites
Ites
Holyoakeites
Standing Committee On Foreign Relations
Juiax Harney
England
Vienna
Austria
Dobrudscha
Silistria
Paskiewitch
Rupert Peppre
Peddie
Knight of the Hammer
Firth of Forth
Penzance
Mr. Peddie
John Bright
Gammage
Joseph Mazzini
Louis Kossuth
Victor Hugo
Messrs
Tompson
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Gavazzi
Father
Father Gavazzi
Alessandro Gavazzi
Red Sea
Silo
Benjamin
Israel
David
Socrates
Aspasia
Crete
Sparta
Pilate
Lycurgus
Cicero
Gabinus
Sempronia
M. Ferniault
God
John Foster
Poet
the Public Assembly
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