... entitled to tenderness and forbearance on the ground of antiquity. The same plea might have been put forward in defence of slavery, which is found to have existed, as social institution, in almost all nations, civilised well as barbarous, and in every age ...

... help. If it were, we should begin not with the lurk, but with the Englishman. Japan would be liberated from the commercial slavery in which British diplomats, aided by British fleets, have bounf her, and would be invested with her proper autonomy. The opium ...

... from the Northern States, and to become independent nation, with slavery as their basis ; and our present Prime Minister, as a man whose first speech in Parliament was in defence of slavery, and whose father was a slave merchant Liverpool, publicly con ...

... organised hell, Wesley said that African slavery was the sum all villanies, Irish landlordism comprises all the villanies that the devil ever invented, with African slavery thrown in. Irish landlordism makes African slavery virtue by comparison. For when negro ...

... Paisley Baptist Church, in addressing the meeting, referred to the wrongs which the tenantry suffered, and the state of abject slavery in which they lay. “A brother of mine,” he said, “ living in the Island of Sanday, rented from his landlord fourteen acres ...

... society and each member of it. “For myself, I have only to say I love liberty and despise oppression—l love freedom and despise slavery—l love own magnificent Republic, with its freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of the press, and 1 correspondingly ...

... arrival in the district, has been ever watchful of the interests of the struggling masses, and has striven to raise them from slavery and teach them self-respect by uniting them in one strong phalanx under the banner of the Land League. —Constantine O’Reilly ...

... believe that every magistrate and every judge was 1 sent from heaven to rule over them (laughter). They had forgotten in the slavery of the past that all these officials weie the servants of the public, and that if they did not do justice, but made themselves ...

... quoting : There have been many countries, both ancient and modern, in which slavery was part of the acknowledged law ; but I submit to all men who have studied the question of slavery whether in any such country the producing slave has been so limited in the ...

... Michael Davitt to start a movement which is destined to pull to the ground, and not only in Ireland, a system near akin to slavery in its evils. That there was wrong mixed with the League, especially in its early stages, is, I fear, certain ; but we may ...

... the fact, lest it should give encouragement to the good man who are labouring that way for tho liberation of Ireland from slavery. Buckshot” Forster has referred me in anything but complimentary terms. Buckshot” Forster is an assassin of my race, and I ...

... glad that American slavery was destroyed. In the days of slavery we all felt that, although its existence might be historically excused, it could never morally justified—that our best apology for its continuance was the fact that slavery was evil inheritance ...