... united, said, prohibitions and prohibitory duties will shave the fate of civil disabilities on religious grounds, the slavery of our negro fellow subjects, and other works of darkness. Nor is it accessary for this purpose that the late ministry should ...

... gain, neither can there to society, especially its most helpless portion, for the deep wrongs they have inflicted. Negro slavery was bought off; and a very liberal bargain it was, on the part of the nation. But negroes had long been recognised as property ...

... support of Lord Ashley's measure. The arguments which had been adduced against it were equally applicable to the support of slavery, and had formerly been adopted for such a purpose. It was said, we should protect property, but was not labour species of ...

... not return until eight o'clock in the evening— thus occupying fourteen or fifteen hours: (Hear, hear.) And was this sort of slavery to continued ? (Loud cries of Hear, hear, from the ministerial side of the house.) The two hon. members had urged, that ...

... all for the attainment of their aim. Nevertheless the French Minister did interfere against that extension of stripes and slavery. And American agents, to punish M. Guizot and Lotis-Philippe, have got up against them storm in the French public and the ...

... not only within the house, but also public ? Take almost any subject of discussion within the last half century—take the slavery question, or the Catholic question—what differences o|.i uon had there not been ? There were equally great discrepancies of ...

... charge was wholly unfounded. The Association, from the commencement, looked forward to the emancipation all trades from the slavery of night-work, and if they did not earlier solicit the co-operation of their fellowsufferers, it was not from selfish motives ...

... Here, at all events, is the prospect of no more than a doom most justly incurred. No one doubts Majaval's share in the slavery business. No question can be raised on his liability to be punished for his share in it by the tribunals of his own country ...

... to stifle discussion upon the question of slavery, when they themselves endeavoured to stifle the promulgation of principles in which 600,000 immortal souls were involved in one of the worst kinds of slavery that ever existed under the canopy of heaven ...

... continued unreformcd and undiminished in number. In Australia a state of society was developed in which all the evils of slavery were engrafted on the evils of population composed in a great measure of hardened and adroit ruffians. The tampering with ...

... administer to the idleness and luxury of the rich; and that of the rich return in to find the best methods of confirming the slavery and increasing the burthens of the poor. In a state nature it is an invariable law that man's acquisitions are in proportion ...

... was one which involved the great questions of justice or injustice, right or wrong, liberty and some hope in this life, —or slavery, destitution, and premature death. They felt that if they did not struggle and agitate, by some means or other, there was ...