... WVith what prospects ?-Are we to have three hundred and sixty-five other sunsets on division, and weakness, and famine, and slavery, or with this day's rising sun will this people arise from the lethargy in which they lay as if entranced, and, with the strong ...

... leave no doubt but that the slavery question will, during the session, call forth very acrimovibus feelings. Already southern msilbers have threatened that if the house persist in passing laws !or the exclusion of slavery from the Columbia, or any of ...

... passage of any law, prohibiting slavery in the territories, or abo- lishing it in the district of Columbia, a portion of the southern members, including all from South Carolina (ever the hot-bed of sedition, the citadel of slavery), Florida, and a majority ...

... and by an assembly chosen for the express purpose. On the vital question of negro slavery this constitution is- irreproachable., Bv an express provision ' neither slavery nor invol antarS. servitude, unless for thbepunishinent of crimes, shall ever be ...

... for i he firniess3 with which lee, a southern man, stands for TlE UNION AS IT aS, and gives warning to the fanatics of slavery that he will suffer no nonsense from them in that dirction I As already said, I have no idea he will ever be required to put ...

... placed this resolution on the true ground of Father Mathew's opinions of slavery; that the Senator had ptiaced its passage 'upon the ground that Father Mathew was opposed to slavery; and now the question was, will the enaote of. the United EStates honour ...

... not have it. Mr. Cobden and Sir Robert Peel say no, and that decides the question. I say for one, I will not submit to such slavery as that (great cheering). I am willing to live under the authority of the Queen, lords, and commons of the empire; but if ...

... la- botiring to bribe there by state salaries into the partial ser- vitude of the national scliools, or hito the absolute slavery of the Queens colleges. This proves that not thie cultivation of the mind, but its entire enslavement is their object. Hav- ...

... undue preference was given to the south, from which it was inferred that the Speaker was favourable to the perpetuation of slavery. The committee of foreign relations, the one likely to be of any in- terest in this country, is composed of Messrs M'Chervaud ...

... instruct the committee on terri- tories to report a bill organizing New Mexico as a territory with a proviso prohibiting slavery. This, of course, was presenting the issue to the south in its most distinct form. A southern member moved immedi- 5 ately ...

... whom her country no less than she might take pride, was consigned to a felon's fate because his virtues Unfitted a him for slavery, and his generosity hurried him to the Ou' y cour of friends in distress. The dearest tio which bound bet a to life being ...

... o'er agaist, And thrice you have slain the slain. and in each other's blood yon have written the instruments e of your own slavery, unmindful of tuhe living foe, ever l e ready to take advantage of your unfortunate divisions, and s thereby perpetuate ...