... has been adopted for California, by the convention at Monterey, and the public were nearly unanimous in its favour. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except for the punish- ment of crime, can be tolerated within the state at all. All offices, judicial ...

... between the two great leading parties, refuse to vote for candidate who is not pledged to their views on the question of slavery. The contest has produced great excitement throughout the country. The reception New York of Hungarian exiles had been most ...

... money is prohibited, also divorces, lotteries, and duelling, and what for the sake of humanity of more consequence than all, slavery is unanimously excluded from California. With some alterations the boundaries of the State arc those settled by the American ...

... laws and society the tr «. and most learned that has ever yet existed. Britain is gradually demolishing the dominions of slavery, J illuminating the atmosphere freedom with the rays liberty. The peace movement one of the grandest that agitates society ...

... their ruins |—what time-honoured but ruinous conventionalisms would cease aud determine !—what myriads of poverty- stricken, slavery-blighted, trampled-down, human beings, would start into life and light and liberty and Joy And a gencration would arise * ...

... President's message had not then been delivered, the election of a speaker in the Assembly not having been arranged. The slavery question is the main cause of the present embarrassment, and is likely further to trouble the American Legislature in the ...

... the trouble. If, on the organisation of the house, prof tritium were to be introduced to abolish slavery iu the district of Columbia, or prohibit slavery iu the territories, he trusted in Gad that his eyes had already rested on the last speaker of the ...

... morning till eleven at night. Talk of fac- ld tory labor and- the early closing movement I there -was no such v dreadful slavery as this. It wvas really astonishing to observe with . what assiduity people carried on that dangerous and doubtful call- e ...

... extension of slavery into-the newly acquired States, and that party now holds the scales in its own hands, so as to be able to prevent the progress of busiuess until the election of a Speaker who, like themselves, is opposed to the extension of slavery into any ...

... forty-seven issues had been tried, and great excitement existed in Washington and throughout the country The Free Soil, or Anti-Slavery advocates, remained firm in their refusal to vote for any candidate for the Speakership who was not pledged to taeir views ...

... the Washington and throughout the country. The j due*, in hopes to procure shelter and employment. Bv j Free Soil, or Anti-Slavery, advocates remained , the middle of December the avenues to the niine# will firm in their refusal vote fur any candidate for ...

... assembly chosen for tlie _express purpose . _On tlie vital question of negro _slavery , this _constitution _is irreproacliablc . By _an express _provision _neither _slavery ,. nor involuntary _servitude , _unless for _the _punishment of criinos , shall ...