... prevailed in the Senate. A Free Homestead Act— an Act for the Prohibition of Slavery, absolutely and for ever,in all the territories of the Union—an Actfor the Abolition Slavery in the district of Columbia an Act Confiscating the Property and Emancipating ...

... write* from Norfolk, Virginia, immediately after the surrender of the place:— We are just in time to prevent another crime of slavery. The Norfolk Day-Book, now ia my hands, has the following advertisement in its columns' Sale of free blacks for city taxes ...

... from being carried into slavery, he agreed that all laws of the states, whether free states or slave states, which contra- vene the Constitution of the United States, or any law of Con- gress, ought to be repealed. Domestic slavery existing in any State ...

... abolition of slavery, and, consequently, to become the tools of the advocates of democracy. To those we would address a few observations. It has always appeared to us that, assuming the South to care fo. nothing but the extension of slavery, secession ...

... from the Standard of yesterday evening:— TO MRS. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE. Madam—Some of the friends to the extinction of slavery imagine that the cause may be promoted publishing some occasional papers, recently sent by me to the Standard London newspaper ...

... present formidable rebellion against the general government manifestly finds its root and nourishment in the system of chattel slavery at the South ; as the leading conspirators are slaveholders, who constitute an oligarchy avowedly hostile to all free institutions ...

... which religion fettered and imperilled by the accursed slavery system may prove interesting to our readers: Alameda Co.,Cal. f 18th March, 1861. u There is great excitement here about the slavery question; but it has not as yet had any effect on business ...

... prot clamation to Louisiana, drawing attwr tion to the exact meaning of the President's fir»t proclamation on the subject of slavery ; showing that it would not , take practical effect till another proclamation had been published, and that Louisiana had not ...

... States—no mean party. That party has hitherto sustained him, though he has blown hot and cold on the Slavery question, from a conviction that, in spite of him, slavery would perish through the con- tinuance of the war. They have now reached the goal they desired ...

... conditions on which only can any State be readmitted. One is that what is called the “constitutional amendment abolishing slavery” shall be. accepted, and the other that the debts incurred by each State, “in aid of the rebellion,” shall be répu- diated ...

... submission. It is remarkable that the Committee of the Mississippi Convention have reported in favour of the abolition of Slavery, whilst thus jealous of the maintenance of State privileges. They are quite ready, apparently, to sacrifice property in slaves ...

... its liberties from the North, universal social disorganization would at least have been escaped, and we hold it likely that slavery in its grosser features, such as the sale of men and women, and the forced separation of families, would have undergone a ...