... 47 issues had been tried, and great excitement existed a in Washington, and throughout the cotntry, The free soil, or anti-slavery advocates, remained firm in their refusal to vote for any candidate for the speakership who was not r pledged to their views ...

... fourteen in utber, one portioit wlrligs tild another Loco- focos or Democrats, but so ardent are they in their hls- tility to slavery, that they refuse to unite with either palrty in constitutilig the house by the election of the Speak;er. The Whigs lave pilt ...

... expeditious comnnnuication| may be secured betreen the United States and thcr t1r- - ritories on the Pacific. In regard to slavery there is only anl irdirect allusion. or recoonuliendation to abstain from tie in.trodoc-tion of ex- citing topics of a section ...

... California, warmly urgilng its admission into tile itepublic, and leaving it to the inhabitants to decide jwhether or- not slavery shall be a1n institution of their I state. The rainy season had set in at California a month earlier than usual, it was feared ...

... Januaiy 21, is to the following effect: _ On the organization of the territories, with reference to trhe controversy on slavery, it explains the coatrse pursued by the President with reurard to the affairs of California and New Mexico. He recommends ...

... wvill bci realised. ef Tbe intelligence framrv California is interesting, on accortnt o of the ppulattion bavlng excluded slavery from their institu- jf tions. 2Iris will probably be felt by the advocates of the svs- of temn of slave bolding in the. l ...

... 6th Feb. and brings the usual e mails and 80 passengers. In the Senate the discussions have chiefly been on the question of slavery in the United States, e and the recently acquired territories. The resolutions were 1 introduced by Mr Clay in a masterly ...

... the 1st of Januarv last. The State Legis- lature had been fully organised, and hail pacsed the constito- g ion, excluding slavery. The election of senators and men;- st bers of Congress was over. With respect to the mines, thes present acconnts confirrn ...

... brought 73 passen- gers. The steam ship Hermnan left New York for South- ampton the same day as the Europa. The question of slavery sttll occupies the attention of Con- gress, as riel! as the H-louse of Representatives, and it is ex- pected that California ...

... the sueds of civilisation in Africa, replunge that Continent in the worst horrors of barbarism, and give a ir stimulus to slavery in Cuba and Brazil. The argument i that the exertions of the African squadron had been useless l was inconsistent with the ...

... resignation tendered, and there is little ground probably, therefore, for the statemeet that Mr Crittenden had been sent for. The slavery question. in connection with California, still oc- cupied the attention of both branches of Congress. On the 20th. in the ...

... 'a a1sonl3abolislhedafteryearsofstia-irrig agitation. Andeven now, stron. as is our abhorrence both of the slave trade and slavery, we do not carry it to theat degree that we refuse to carry on as extended a comnmerce in the produce of slave la- bour as ...