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Dred Scott

The Millennium at Last.

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
3-27-1857
Democratic
we shall acquire, by the decision of the Supreme Court, not one right more than they granted to us before -- not one foot of slave territory more than we would have acquired without it.
Dred Scott

The Past and the Future.

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
3-17-1857
Democratic
slavery is guaranteed by the constitutional compact.
John Brown

Military Aid to Virginia.

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
11-28-1859
Democratic
We are satisfied that every intelligent man in the South has been completely disgusted at the broad and pathetic farce that has been played off before the public about the hanging of that hoary villain, "OLD BROWN."
John Brown

Mr. Wendell Phillips

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
11-5-1859
Democratic
Avarice alone keeps them in association with us -- avarice gratified at our submission to their policy of plunder and [sic] aggrandisement.
John Brown

MURDER AND TREASON vs. PATRIOTISM.

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
11-4-1859
Democratic
the Tribune considers the act of Brown as the act of a patriot
John Brown

The Democratic Party and Old Brown.

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
11-8-1859
Democratic
To weaken, subject and use the South, but not to lose her, is their policy.
John Brown

The Harper's Ferry Insurrection.

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
10-19-1859
Democratic
a concerted movement of abolitionists and their black victims in southern States
John Brown

The Insurrection

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
10-21-1859
Democratic
It is a warning profoundly symptomatic of the future of the Union with our sectional enemies.
John Brown

The New York Elections and their Meaning.

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
11-24-1859
Democratic
there are men whose minds are so blindly and determinedly fixed on preserving the Union, at all events, that nothing, short of the very fires of insurrection at their own homes, and the abduction of their property when Black Republican policy shall come to its consummation in the last grand catastrophe, can wean from vain hopes of northern magnanimity, or wake from the delusive dreams of future peace.
John Brown

The Plan of Insurrection.

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
11-1-1859
Democratic
Although BROWN'S effort at an insurrection has been silly and abortive, the developments are rapidly showing that a wide-spread scheme was maturing at the North for insurrections throughout the South.
John Brown

Virginia and the Fate of the Invaders

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
11-14-1859
Democratic
A question of policy to avoid giving occasion for their wailings and denunciations for the doom of their unfortunate confreres, pioneering the way to universal emancipation at the South!
John Brown

Virginia.

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
11-28-1859
Democratic
No one in the South could have watched the course of the Virginia statesmen and public presses since her sad fall in 1852, without marking her steady drifting to an anti-Southern nationalism.
Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

Meeting in New York.

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
2-4-1854
Democratic
we expect to see abolition attempting now to cloak its head under the mantle of good faith, and cry aloud for the maintenance of pledges, while it presses forward its own wicked objects.
Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

Mr. Brooks's Speech

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
3-21-1854
Democratic
it places the claims of the bill to Southern support on the true ground of the equal constitutional rights of all the States in the Territories
Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

Nebraska.

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
1-23-1854
Democratic
the North and the South ought to unite in sweeping it into the rubbish of extinct legislative anomalies
Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

Nebraska.

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
2-4-1854
Democratic
Senator DOUGLAS made a powerful speech in vindication of the Nebraska bill
Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

Out of the Woods at Last.

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
5-29-1854
Democratic
We are glad to get rid of it.
Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

REPEAL OF THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE.

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
2-3-1854
Democratic
distinctly and unequivocally in favor of repealing all the anti-slavery restrictions of the Missouri Compromise
Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

Rights of Minorities

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
5-27-1854
Democratic
As Mr. CALHOUN observed, governments were formed to protect minorities -- majorities can take care of themselves.
Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

Senator Douglas-- Squatter Sovereignty

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
2-14-1854
Democratic
So far therefore from these governments being empowered to exclude slavery, any action they may take upon the subject, would be a matter for discussion and decision, both by Congress and the Supreme Court of the United States.
Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

Senator Douglas.

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
2-6-1854
Democratic
We are able to do only imperfect justice to the speech of this distinguished Senator in defence of the territorial bill
Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

Slavery Agitation

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
6-3-1854
Democratic
the passage of the Nebraska Bill is the renewal of agitation of the subject of slavery, under circumstances, too, of unprecedented intensity and bitterness.
Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

The South and the New York Factions.

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
1-26-1854
Democratic
It is perhaps, well for the South that parties at the North stand thus committed
Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

What is Nebraska?

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
2-8-1854
Democratic
But the position of the Abolitionists on this question is not only treacherous, but it makes also the legislation of the country absurdly inconsistent.
Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

What is the Nebraska Bill?

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
3-23-1854
Democratic
Whether time and consultation, and the various influences that work on the minds of Members of Congress, will increase the number of supporters of the bill, remains to be seen.
Sumner Caning

A New Era.

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
5-29-1856
Democratic
Was the like of this ever before published in a newspaper in South Carolina?
Sumner Caning

Mr. Brooks's Letter to the Senate

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
6-6-1856
Democratic
We copy below the letter of Mr. BROOKS, addressed to the President of the Senate
Sumner Caning

No Title.

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
5-28-1856
Democratic
SUMNER was well and elegantly whipped, and he richly deserved it.
Sumner Caning

The Privileges of the Senate

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
6-9-1856
Democratic
Precedent is the mask which tyranny wears when it strikes its deadliest blows.
Sumner Caning

The Right View of the Subject

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
5-30-1856
Democratic
The South certainly has become generally convinced that it is by hard blows, and not by loud blustering and insulting denunciation, that the sectional quarrel is to be settled.