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SLAVERY IN BEAZIL.—NO. 4

... in 1852 with an address to the Emperor on slave trade a and slavery; and their testimony is at this moment par- ticularly valuable, when the committee of the British and f Foreign Anti-Slavery Society are conveying in court-like IS phrases different sentiments ...

LITERATURE

... Old Testament distinctly recognises slavery as a Hebrew institution. It is also true that the New Testament speaks of slavery in several passages, and does not condemn it. But before we draw the conclusion that slavery is a divine institution, established ...

LITERATURE

... of slavery in moulding the opinions of our people, as well as in shaping the destinies of l our country. I Mr. Greeley pursues the only philosophical or rational course in dealing with the history of I slavery as the history of secession. Slavery has ...

LITERATURE

... to nm abolish slavery throughout the Dutch colonies. Onr{ the first day of last J ulythlat great object was effected for, by all act of the Dutch legislature, I duly ratitled by the king, it was decreed that, from 01 that (late, slavery sbould cease on ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... tells us that he links together on his title-page Slavery and Secession as cause and effect. Some people, he says, Say that slavery has bad nothing to do with originating the present difficulties, but that it is the desire of the South to be free from the ...

LITERATURE

... ial account of id the rise and progress of slavery in the United States. Spain introduced slavery into America, but at the door of Great Britain lies the sin of its perpetuation. The trade was so lucrative that, under the patronage of royalty and commerce ...

AMERICAN WAR LITERATURE

... other works on the theme we have My Southern Friends (14), by Edmund Kirke, an anti-slavery tale, written with all the animosity of a Northerner of to-day; and The Anti-Slavery Cause in America (15), by Eliza Wigham, a rabid effort to guard our beloved country ...

THE EMPEROR MAXIMILIAN ON BRAZIL

... clergy, and the absence of conscience and of religion in the people. Slavery is the great curse, and cause of demoralization. How can the blessings of home dwell side by side with slavery? How can conscience exist when there are men beyond the pale of law ...

SUNDAY IN ST. JAME'S PARK

... Wharf-road, City-road, N., London, Jan. 27. THE REV. A. RALEIGH ON SLAVERY.-The Rev. A. Raleigh, of Hare-court Chapel, Canonbury, preached a special sermon on the subject of slavery on Stit- day evening. The rev. gentleman chose for his text Heb. xiii ...

LITERATURE

... America to raise their.voices against slavery; and you demand, where is now thlsoeirit Wbhih dictated that appeal? You quote the evidence of our press and ourpublic speakers, that the righteous jindignaten against slavery wlich once kindled ?? English hearts ...

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

... from i. What a fise- piolous pyople I SPCLckL MmEro=R OF TinE ATNT-SLAVERY CON- MRianCE IN PARIS. 27, Actv Broad-strett-1-his ls a most inteyesting and ?? account of the Parit Anti-Slavery Conference of 1867. It is &rawn up by the able and indefatigable ...

BOOKS OF THE WEEK

... Memorials of John Mackintosh.' By Norman Macleod, D.D. Popular Edition. (Post 8vo, pp. 483.) Strahan and Co. POLITics.-' The Anti-Slavery Cause in America and its Martyrs.' By Eliza Wigham. (Post 8vo, pp. 168.) A. W. Bennett. EsSAYS.-' Subtle Brains and Lissom ...