... forty-seven issues had been tried, and great excitement existed Washington and throughout the country. The Free Soil, or Anti- Slavery, advocates remained firm in their refusal to vote for any candidate for the speakership who has not pledged to their views ...

... between the two great leading parties, refuse to vote for a candidate who is not pledged to their views on the extension of slavery. Tne contest has produced great excitement, not only in the house, but through- out the country. In the progress of the struggle ...

... Presidential Message is now . needed to indicate the topics reserved for discussion I in the present Congress. The great Slavery ques- tion has asserted its right to prominence with such ominous distinctness, as completely to paralyse the action of the ...

... were Peler.e4. Daring the adasinistratioa of Mr. Munroe, In the admission of Missouri into the Union M' ht the question of slavery prominently before people. it well known that it wasagitated with the intensest violence throughout the United States. much ...

... i denounced as piracy and felony—of a people who import j annually 70,000 slaves, cherishiug at heart a holy horror of j slavery. Butitiswor.se th_n ludicrous that we should be ' urged to abandon a great national undertaking out of ! respect to the feelings ...

... which itself has denounced as piracy and felony—of people who import annually 70,000 slaves, cherishing heart holy horror of slavery. But it is worse than ludicrous that should be urged to abandon great national undertaking out of respect to the feelings ...

... of between the two great leading parties, refuse vote fur a candidate who is not pledged their views on the questiru c*f slavery. The contest bas produced excilenienf, not only in the contesters, but throughout the country. In the progress of the struggle ...

... no owe vill deny, that a world-wide repugnance to the Ides if eciasessing slave produce would lay the axe to the root of slavery itself. Slave-labour merchandisa would be pet to the of commerce ; and the slaveholder, perceiving that his trade was up ...

... without it. The question of slavery now occupies the most prominent place in the public mind, and in the House of Representatives it is the source of endless divisions. By the resolution of Cali- fornia to reject slavery, under the constitution which ...

... con- tinted to roll through savanalbs peopleli only by tie wian- dering hunter. Of that empire, despotism, acid caste, end slavery were, however, eonstituent elenetits; and the ad- miration vwith which we regard the nionutments of its grandeur is dashed ...

... Mr. Pennington, a coloured gentleman, who has just concluded a series of lectures in this city on the subject of American slavery. Dr. Pennington was born a slave in the state of Maryland, but some time ago effected his escape under circumstances of extreme ...

... Duelling prohibited. Lotteries, and the sale of lottery tickets, prohibited. The convention resolved unanimously to exclude slavery from the State of California. A copy of the constitution wu sent to General Reilly, Acting Governor of California ' requesting ...