... rightly appreciate our anti-slavery policy. The anti-slavery and anti-slave-trade operations of this country have, it cannot be denied, entailed enormous sacrifices upon our West India colonies. The virtue displayed by our anti-slavery agitators has been one ...

... islands protest against this attempt to violate national faith, cemmon with those resident in France. They do not defend slavery, but they demand that its abolition accompanied with measures calculated to insure a continuous supply of free labour. The ...

... involving in its success the only reasonable prospect of the overthrow of slavery and the slave trade. (Loud cheers.) He should commence his observations with a few words about slavery which would lead him naturally into the main thread of his argument. In ...

... governments to set up anti-slavery principles. Lord Morpeth will not lend the sanction of his name and influence to so shallow a hypocrisy. No doubt he will injure himself in the estimation of the small section of anti-slavery ultras. But with every respect ...

... might contain a clause for permitting Spanish sugar to enter British ports. For great moral end, such as the abolition of slavery, the English might become enthusiastic. But when neither morals, nor religion, nor commerce arc concerned, it is all one to ...

... modern slAvery. - But we are now ocrining, to closer quarters. Allow that the system of Jewish slavery is a di- tvinely authorisod orie, and thait we have made, and are ot omatte, noadvance in humaknity since then, stisilthe system - of modern slavery is ...

... was still engaged in his old avocation —as an anti-slavery man ; and he rejoiced to find himself not mistaken, for, in every sense of the word, the British Anti-State Church Association was an Anti-Slavery • Association. He believed there' were many con ...

... acquesitien in the South. of So loeg as beth parties could play at state-melting sgc~inst oh, ench ot'ter the crisis lot the slavery qusestiton was miii fiaitely psaspoosmt. Be:, this ganee is client to cone ase nd the wholeI cy saibject is nose assu aing ...

... pliable gossamer. As the case of Texas. Though the constitution contains in itself a provision for its amendment, yet, whenever slavery is touched upon, the American people are taught to regard it something to* sacred to be looked closely, too sacred to be subject ...

... But Mr. Benton was too late compromise. Calhoun and the slave-owners at him; and Texas was absorbed, and opened fasoils for slavery as far as the Rio del Norte Mr. Benton was vainly endeavouring to stoptU with a bit of paper. And now we have Mr. Bf.nton ...

... in these doings. And in this easy, chit-chat way he goes on to show it. Of course his book is intended to be a history of slavery. A contribution to it it undoubtedly is; but it gives no fair or adequate idea of this curious but widely spread social i ...

... the temperance reformation: while Rgo 0earlier movements, 'whether for parliamentary ri's L~reform, or the abolition of slavery, or law reform, hack to the early days of Burke and Fox, of Clarkseon cx 1,and Bentham, are not forgotten. The Anti-Corn-law ...