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... 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 ...

WARLIKE STORES FOR THE SPANIARDS

... Company, 'tis true, Have clos'd their hearts and purses too, And will no't send their gold, to free A suffering land from slavery; Nay, they exult, and clap their hands, And talk with rapture of the bands, That tyranny for man prepares, And quaff their ...

THE READER

... apologist of the sacred institution of Slavery, we pass to the works of one of its most uncompromising opponents. We have heard a good deal of late of H. D. Thoreau, and of the significance of his life, and so Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers, by H. D. Thoreau ...

WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON.*

... the Prcsi- dent bad not had his heart really in the cause, When the war was over and slavery at an end, Garrison proposed the dissolution of the American Anti-Slavery Society. This was in I865. In the same year the Libe rator came to an end. Hle had reaped ...

LITERATURE

... author credit, and some of his remarks are dictated by a wholesome sense of what is due to humanity, For instance, he says of slavery- Slave labour not only reduces the slave to the level of a beast, but demoralises the society which employs it. Slave labour ...

Published: Sunday 16 May 1875
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 536 | Page: 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

TWO NOVELS

... fanatical; that the South were a nation of gentlemen, attacked and trampled on by a nation of hucksters; and that slavery, at any rate as slavery was practised in South Carolina, was an excellent institution, and the only system that suited the nature of the ...

LITERATURE

... be seen, the present tendency of he the progress of America is not only to strengthen, 'w the institution of slavery but to extend it. Slavery, Mrs. Stowe shows, was really dying out until the extension of slave territory, the opening of a great southern ...

LITERATURE

... OSeCting an unlimited area for the extension of slavery. hile the wiosser-es of the North have been repeating tue traditiosial language of thke early llepntblicaa days, eali a-Ssurice5 mackind~ that slavery in Am erica sas 3 . sec and laugasishlong entity ...

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 ...

LITERATURE

... see that the abolition of slavery through- i out the States was the only safe and effective way of I bringing the war to an end, This volume of speeches is intended to serve as a a contribution to the history of the anti-slavery I struggle in America under ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... THE LITERARY EXAMINER. Poems on Slavery. By Henry Wadsworth Long- fellow. Owen: Cambridge (Mass:ichnssets, ?? 1842. With this little volume, the work of an American: writer whose courage is equal to his intellect, we have received some papers on the present ...