... are fully aware that a war with the United States would be utterly opposed to our sense of our own welfare. The tenor of all the information we receive ! is that emancipation is making great progress ; in consequence of the war. Wherever the Federal troops ...

... loaded with cargo of 900 slaves, commanded by a Captain Gordon, was seized off the coast of Africa by an American man-of-war. The slaves were landed in Monrovia, and the captain of the slaver was sunt to New York, the port from whence had sailed, for ...

... shall see those fields flourish once more where slavery (drawing civil war and other evils in its train) has commenced its work of devastation.” The writer then proceeds to show the intimate connexion between the progress of American slavery and the enormous ...

... the selfish purposes of a master, such war degrades a people. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice ; war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their ...

... “IMMIGRANTS.” THE NEW FRENCH SLAVE-TRADE AFRICA. From the Morning Post. On the 29th of November last, a small steamer of 383 tons, and 80 horse power, constructed to sail with or without steam, fully armed and equipped for war, carrying a crew of men, and displaying ...

... PRICE ONE PENNY Stamped, 2>l. until the suppression of the slave trade shall be effected, and Africa and America shall both be freed from its cancerous influence, leaving the one to forward in her exodus from long night of darkness and barbarism into ...

... round the coast of Africa —a measure which he believed would prove to be an effectual barrier to the slave trade. Mr George Thompson proposed the second resolution, as follows;—“ That it is the conviction of this meeting that the civil war now waging in Amenca ...

... character, and proclaimed an exterminating war upon all who are engaged in it. We have declared them enemies to mankind, OUTLAWS worthy of death. They are so regarded and treated by other nations. To carry on this war, we are bound to contribute all reasonable ...

... maintaining the revolutionary war, some of the best and most efficient regiments of which were composed of negroes ; there would have been no ultimate triumph to American arms, for there was not one regiment too many in that war on the side the colonists ...

... insisted still. It had nothing else to gain by war, for its self-government was complete ; but that was not enough, for territorial extension was the condition of its strength. From t’. e moment that war broke out, the question, divested of its technical ...

... sold like beasts in the market; and it equally true that its missions to Africa, to convert the heathen of that continent, are sustained by the money raised from the sale of Africa’s daughters, sold in the American shambles to grace the seraglios of southern ...

... men John Bell once owed his election to the House Representatives. Massachusetts adopted her Constitution in 17S0, during the War of Independence. That Constitution made the slave freeman—made persons of the African race citizens, entitled to the elective ...