... what difference wonld there be between such a case and the one under con- sideration, except that the one would relate to slavery and the other to impressment p? subjects, probably, equally important in the view of her Majesty's government. It was against ...

... LADIES' ANTI-SLAVERI SOCIETY. (From the North British Mail.) Yesterday afternoon (Friday), a meeting of the Edin- burgh Ladies' Auti- Slavery Society was held in Queen- street Hall, Edinburgh. There was a very respectable attendance, composed cliiefiy ...

... They had no power in regulating the rate of wages. There was no such thing as freedom of labour — it was the freedom of slavery. And there was another thing the men of this school told them — namely, that wages were regulated by the supply and de- mand ...

... time to come, and its adoption under existing cir- cumstancs in the present session of Congress, when the great question of slavery will be fought, is to be looked upon as problematical. But little change appears to have taken place in commercial affairs ...

... w«s a factory masters' question in England. The factory system of those manufacturers was the most infamous slavery in the world— West India slavery was no more to be compared to it than white to black (hear). Richard Cobden, a revolutionary agitator, was ...

... enemy to the freedom of Ireland, because, indeed, he refused to collect the O'Connell rent — that he wished to perpetuate the slavery and degradation of his native land, and main- tain Or-nge or Protestant ascendancy, at the expense of the 1 be ty and independence ...

... which have cost four time* that sum. The Yank -c hordes have fulfilled their mission in Mexico — witness the extension of slavery, witness the bombardment of Vera Cruz, the seizure of the capital and the acquisition of a vast province abounding in deposits ...

... will accept them, but even hinders the supply of the Afri- cans necessary to keep up the trade they ?? under the diabolical slavery system the slave population rapidly wears away. This squa- dron then must be removed. By the most ludicrous evidence — by ...

... higher ' moral end' than the abolition of the slave traffic— an object higher than that of abolishing war, in proportion as slavery •— ?? «*•-■ « — j - v..„„„. k„ t y, a aan^ral iudement of mankind. And in conclusion the Times challenges Mr Cobden :— To ...

... not have it. Mr. Cobden and Sir Robert Peel say no, and that decides the question. I say for one I will not submit, to such slavery as that (great cheering). I am willing to live under the authority of the Queen, Lords, and Commons of the empire; onixt any ...

... the way to perpetuate slavery, and to uphold tyranny (hear, hear). Had not the masses in eastern Europe a perfect right to ask what right we had to lend money to an irresponsible despot to perpetuate their serf- dom and slavery ? But the answer was, We ...

... re- spect to the colonies of Ceylon and Jamaica. The West Indies were destroyed for the ostensible purpose of suppress- ing slavery! But whereas in 1845 there were 6000 slaves imported from the coast of Africa, in 1847 there were 84,000 (cheers). How was ...