CIVIL WAR AND SLAVERY

... CIVIL WAR AND SLAVERY. Although the one subject Transatlantic politics which is present supremely interesting to Englishmen is •' conspicuous by its abscnce from the President's Message, there is yet much in that document that calls for our best attention ...

BULLDOGS v. POODLES

... Southern divines, that slavery ought to the white labouring classes of England. It la wonderful what chances are sometimes given those slowness dooms them ultimate Ims. Perhaps the English working classes will wake when these pro-slavery jalots hav« got a ...

FREE LABOUR IN THE FRENCH COLONIES

... recruitment, must be admitted, differs completely from the slave trade; in fact, while the latter had for its origin and object slavery, the former, the contrary, leads to liberty. The negro slave as soon as is engaged as a labourer is free, and is not under ...

Though the cessation the war has happily deprived exciting news from the I States, that which conies to hand is

... slaves ; and slavery was abolished, without placing the free negroes in position which formidable, since their number was too small for them ever to claim the exercise of their rights. But such not the case in the South. The ...

MRS STOWE'S REMONSTRANCE

... comes; but appears to us essentially unreasonable. She assumes, not only that the pending civil war is a war for the abolition slavery, but that this is so palpably and undeniably the that the English friends of negro emancipation were bound from the first ...

MURDER?? PRESIDENT LINCOLN

... else it may do, will certainly not diminish their hatred slavery, of that habit violence, that con tempt of all obstacles, human and divine, when they stand in the way of self-will, which slavery engenders. ' The black man rtyists, lash him ; the white ...

THE RECENT OCCURRENCES IN JAMAICA

... law,' which, for month, has allowed the shooting, and hanging, and flogging of itB victims. The evil spirit engendered by slavery is not got rid of in less perhaps than hundred years. In this late outbreak tney have revelled blood, and sported with life; ...

AN OLD CHAPTER REWRITTEN

... more widely dift'ere: than slavery and freedom. It is absurd to think t'lat the two could on perpetually under the same political constitution. The founders tho Republic never dreamed anything of tho kind. They looked upon slavery as transient evil, and expected ...

THE TRENT AND THE SAN JACINTO

... Britain, take 'twere wisdom to pauae. And brook this foul broach thy muritimo laws. Yea, batter, far deriaion to btar. Than slavery's curses ''th tyrants to *hare. Ye ruler*! magnnt 0 Monarch ou high! Give ear—but, oh, not the popular cry; For you to govern ...

NEWS OF THE DAY

... object of disseminating anti-slavery opinions in this country, is now more. In a circular announcing the dissolution of the society, the committee say : —The dream of a slave*empire is now dispelled. Not only has the pro-slavery Government established at ...