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A LONG JOURNEY TO SEE THE QUEEN

... and cy told a very pitbetic story of bar career. to -Her name is Martha Anne Rix, and she is a is widow. She wee born in slavery in the United States, and when a few years old re was bought by her father, and taken. by him rt to Liberia, West Africa. ...

Our Library Table

... shew that slavery cannot be defended on Scriptural grounds. We, taking for granted the infallibility of God's Holy Word, are anxious only, for our own con- science sake, to learn, whether, by the authority of that Word, the institution of slavery is sanctioned ...

Poetry

... at school. So I wrote, wrote, wrote, and I've always beep writing YOu see, Just as picking the cotton was slavery to some, eo writing ig slavery to me; But I write, write, write, jnst to keep me from stirving and shame, I've been writing some ?? unknown ...

ENTERTAINMENTS

... evening at eight the Wilmingon Jubilee Singers arnrounce concerto of the quaint, nmelodions sacred songs sung in the days of slavery. The band, numbering sevei, have all been slaves in the Southern States of the Amerin can Republic. The singing is excellent ...

Our Library Table

... brutalities perpetrat- ed upon poor children by some chimney-sweepers, and sets these practices off against the horrors of slavery, as they exist in the United Stats; contend- ing that there is more evil and misery, and injury and oppression, existing in ...

FASHIONS FOR NOVEMBER

... Lordship we said the injunction would extend not only to the clergy. va man but to everybody. na SLAVERY IN TMlE EAST.-The Aborigines Protection wl and Anti-Slavery Societies have petitioned Lord Selie- ha bury to instruct Her Majesty'a amubasoador in Con- ...

Poetry

... Our boast is to be free And they who Jove not foiwssdj On life's unsettled ses Shall drift unheeded doNVnward, And sink to slavery I Oiavbrn u oao. St; Asaph . R E 11 C Y; Ni't lad spread her vell of dailcness,0 O'er all Z'ph's wilderness, Wither Saul with ...

Poetry

... boast is to be free; And they who nmove not forward, On life's unsettled s4ee Shall srift unheeded downward, And sink to slavery ! 8t. Asaph. OLI.RR GBOAs 31 l; It C Y. Night hadl sprs.ead tier veil of darkness, O'er all Ziph's wvildernehss, Wither'Ss ...

ENTERTAINMENTS

... songster who proposes to delight Cardiff audiences, was born in the old State of North Carolina in 1851. She was born into slavery, a dual child, but, from the special cir- cumstances in her case, exceptional care was bestowed on her. Physically Millie ...

Poetry

... of serfs, whom they love but to drive. Yes! happy indeed, will the day be when peace Shall say, Live and let live, let slavery cease. Most happy is he, when his strength is all spent, Who can calmly review his past life with content, Who can comb his ...

Wit and Humour

... of a memento of dying British tars, we wish Lord Aber. deen lad just one mosquito in his night oap.-Punc7. British Black Slavery.-Lord Palmerston has furnished the women of America with a new answer to the womea of England. The American ladies say that ...

LOCAL AMUSEMENTS

... time of dhe Ameri- can WVar, when the 'North and South were lengaged in that deadly struggle which was destined to a-bolishe slavery. As may. be . surmised,_ the plot is brimful of incident, and a in the hand's of the capable artistes of Mr. Seymour Hodge's ...