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A VOICE FROM THE ENSLAVED

... so plainly, Still sloth and coward fear appals. Is it, that base thoughts enchain yee Is it, the chain no longer galls? If slavery has ceased to pain ye, No matter what strange flate befals. Is it superstitious blunder That spreads a veil before your eyes ...

TO THE PEOPLE

... stretch wid Which in sleep had fallen on you. sronpd. What iB Freedom ? Ye can tell Let the blue sky overhead, That which Slavery is too well, The green earth on which Ye tread For its very name has grown All that must eternal be, To an echo of your own ...

RECOLLECTIONS OF A FRENCHMAN FROM. 1789 TO 1822

... forget-can I forget? Can I forget him when lie trod Our rights into the dust-and laid, Like some usurping demon-god, All slavery's burden on our head. Then freedom fled alarmed-and woe And shame within our dwellings met- Can time e'er raze that memory ...

THE MIRROR OF FASHION

... Lord Holland, and Lord John Russell. The Council broke up shoitly before four o'clock. A nunerous Deputation of the Anti-Slavery Society, consisting of nearly three hundred Noblemen and Gentlemen, waited on Mr. tecretary S auley yesterday. The Deputation ...

JOURNEYMEN'S REPLY

... 13 hours slavery wa'senough, and that a great deal of extra !kbour was added to the cask. made,-the price of making a butt was 3s. S id. :.th6uag the quartern loaf was but lOid. and leear .5d. perpot. Now in 1884 we thuink that 12 hoers slavery is .su ficient ...

THE WESTERN WORLD

... with warning than suggestive of security, but d broadly avows, on more than one occasion, his ap- y prehension that the slavery question, in the new i- form which it is assuming in consequence of the LI recent territorial acquisitions, renders the permanent ...

In the HOUSE OF LORDS, last night, Lord ASHBURTON expressed his acknowledgments for the vote of thanks

... had done to the gallant officer, and said that on t the question of slavery he was disposed to take a higher a tone than that of many of his friends around him. He considered that slavery should be treated by every nation as a crime against humanity, to ...

THE LITEARY EXAMINER

... a view to its final and effectual suppression. The volume is dedicated to Lord Clarendon, whose unwearied efforts against slavery during the memorable mission to Madrid ap- pear to have suggested, these labours and inquiries to MUr Turnbull, and whose ...

COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE

... occasioned; and on, the uses efficacy of sucla emancipation in the event of the slave's acts, return to a colony, wherein slavery is recognised by law, dies his Lordship devotes himself with great earnestness to the dis- hiof cussion; and it is that part ...

LIBERTY

... his angry tires of old, And drag them back to earth; Breathes there the wretch, whose feeble eye; Ne'er pierc'd the film of Slavery- Who neverfelt the glow of shafte O'erspread hit cheek at Freedom's name- Nor blush'd to see himself accurst, Of Slaves, the ...