... There is one party in this country, my lord, who have made the abolition of slavery the sole thought and pur- pose of their lives. They are distinguished from all other anti-slavery men in America by the fact that they have confined 'themselves to this one ...

... practically slavery was no longer in question-that it was perishing under the operation of the war. That asserthmn bas bcen confirmed. The Union mee in all the slave etates that we have deliversed rar even nmore anxious than we are to abolish slavery. Witnees ...

... reflect, that slavery, so far from being a cause, wet the strongest of all possible reasons against aecession. He then went on to show that in all the other cases of war-of threatened ?? America, slavery had n3 part, and asserted that if slavery had been the ...

... modern social structure. In the transi- tion from slavery to serfdom,- and from seaifdom to r liberty, she was the most zealous, the most un- wearied, and the must efficient agent. With the presence of slavery there was always in the free a contempt of labour ...

... I !THE BISHOP OF ORLEANS ON PRESIPENT It I. .11 P OOL-N. ?? M. Cohbin, tbe author of the well-known work on slavery, having, at the request of the Amerloaa Legs.. tion, forwarded an English copy of Mr. Lincoln's last speech to the Bishop of Orleans, the ...

... sas a direct interest in, the slavery q'nstion,. and,, particularly, when ,the South threatened to re-open the importation of African slaves, and tlower 'orthern influence in the councils of the' Unicn by, spreading slavery in territories whichi under the: ...

... the people want to go back to the old system of slavery to landlords, agents, etc? li would appear to me that these gentlemen who try to smash up the Federation wish to return to the old system of slavery-to take up the man with the money, viz, the land- ...

... blow might be inflicted on slavery. When cotton was not in danger, England was a bell- mouthed abolitionist-when it is, she is silent, and silent for lucre. It may be retorted that the Northern movement was not against slavery. America long looked on while ...

... t the Government on the slavery question could not perhaps be different from what it is ; but let it be stated that when the time shall arrive the North will support a plan of emancipation, and c never again recognise slavery as an iin- s'itution. Such ...

... preference for slavery, its ekeire to reestablish the 8easeus toted ante bellum civile. The gentry of Ceorgia and Carolina would, in a few years after the cstabllsiment of States' Rights, have reduced the negro to a condition which would be slavery in fact, ...

... States, who, a sbort time ago, were re- !leased from the yoke of slavery which EFglad i had imposed on their forefathers. England had been the most guilty of al nations in regard to slavery, and, therefore, it was fitting that the . reparation to the negro ...

... 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 ...