... of the peace lad to be charged three tities by the military with fixed bayonets ere was restored. bul for the abolition of slavery in the Spanish culuuies has been introdaced by the (ioverument intu the Cortes. ft proposes that every child born after the ...

... state of things on that property such «s can hndl{ have been equalled on ‘the worst hegro plantation in the days :? southern slavery. The late Sir Edward Scott would not have ‘porpntrnt.ed the clearances and the ovar-mwdiw‘ ‘which resulted in what was on ...

... which he beld high office in Demerara and Berbioce. 'ln the first-named of these islands he suocesded in putting an end to slavery and to the practice of slave~ killing, which at that time was a common occarrence, and de:med by the planters so venial an ...

... and often mean ; that here it was tho old melancboly story of the poor in intense poverty, often in a state approaching to slavery, or in that of chrovic starvation—who periodically broke each others heads in drunken brawls ; who sang coarse topical in ...

... wooden things t' handle.”—Mrs Pouser in ** Adam Bede.” “Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brand of slavery stamped on us, when we were to voung to know its meaning.—Ladislaw in S Mid lemarch.” “Touchwood is that kind of good fellow—pity ...

... the American War then racing, and in which he showed c inclu , ively that the socth we. fiihtin t for the perpetuation of slavery. In that war Mr Mecleed made no little sacrifice, as his eldest son, then reaident in New York, es portend the side of the ...

... people which constituted true civilisation. Slavery had no place in their lyltamhud that was m-m‘&n could be said of any other European State, including the Lowlands of Scotland, where, according to Chambers, slavery was not entirely abolished ufl near the ...

... trader pinch the wench until she uttered a cry of pain. Ifisdpefl of slavery were then cast into shape more durable than metal. He became a hol(’l)e and outspoken ‘antagonist of slavery in any form, and saw in it the ruination of free labour as well as ...

... their magnificence, and point to a time when the brave and hardy, but always defeated, little Celtic race was virtually in slavery to the lords it accepted. But there were never kings except in a Biblical sense or an Irish one, bossing a very small show ...

... committed the country to a policy opposed to its long.cherished and traditional sentiments, and implied the tolcrance of slavery. The secord urged the Government to wi-hdraw the circular, and to amerd the law if necessary, 50 that the deck of a British ...

... regardiog the subject of agricultural depression, A return to protection was as much out of the uestion as the re-imposition of slavery in Jamaica. ;reo-tnde had been of immense ben:fit to the country, and he quoted statistics to prove that the repeal of the ...

... Baptist Church, in addressing the meeting, referred to the wrongs voder which the tenantry suffered, and the state of abject slavery in which they lay. * A brother of mine,” he said, “living in the island of Sanday, rented from his landlord 14 acres of rocks; ...