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LITERATURE

... whom should a young man talk with animation, if not of those he loves ? Dr Nichols is all wrong on the siave question. Slavery, as aeen by the traveller in the South, presented only its softest and its most amiable aspects. There was something fascinating ...

SHIPPING DISASTERS

... lbr th, ombating of 'slavery in A4frMca. O this aet amount, 400,000 marks would be appropriatd 'to Major YVou Wtissean's cent;,l loke steAmner fand. This idea of raisiag money by a lottery''was sug- gested by 'a Rheaish anti-slavery society, ad *as at ...

Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries

... F rster (who was for more than half a century a minister of! thA Society of Friends, and who died when engaged on an anti-slavery mission in Tennessee), by Anna, sister of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, the first baronet. He was born at Bradpole, Dorsetshire ...

LITERATURE

... letters. The Roumanians -sil, 7e' rme-n a thandt few generations hence, whlen they have hal ;te time to shake off the habits of slavery, andd hisve at 0 learned to recognise their own value. Theore is a wealth of unraised treasure, of abilities in tlhe Geoos ...

LITERATURE

... immense sensation. It was written by a Mr Myles, who commenced life as a factory boy, and who recapitalated the story of his slavery to his mercantile masters in such fashion that the factory operatives began to open their eyes, and to see that the nobility ...

THE GREAT EXHIBITION—LOCAL CONTRIBUTIONS

... intellectual improvement. Mr A. Marshall,' Skel- mena, then addressed the meeting on the evils of Slavery, in a very impressive speech, showing clearly that slavery could not he tolerated on common sense principles, although our Christianity were lost sight ...

NOTES ON THE MAGAZINES

... by many. Then Mrs Garrett contrib utes a sketch of the life of Wm Lloyd Garrison, who did so much for the redemption from slavery of a portion of the human race; a rapid and inter- esting sketch of the Tower of London is supplied by Mary Harrison, and ...

HORACE BENCHER'S NOTE-BOOK

... retracing their steps to the Granite City. Bishop leant on the arm of Horace, still de- claring his firm conviction that slavery never should be the let of Britons. The two found affinity in the decrees of fate, but in appear- ance they were very unlike ...

LITERATURE

... Brown and Sir W., Hamilton, and the relations B in which these eminent men stand to Kant and the; rer tI man philosophers. Slavery and the Slave States fors w the subject of a very excellent paper on the! moral, poll- tical, and commercial relatins of slave ...

MAY DAY CELEBRATIONS

... itself to support the international movement for the emancipation of the people from the thraldom of capitalism and wage slavery, and for the reahcation of common owvnership in the means of life. i, Speak- ing in support of the resolution, Mr Dencan ...

MAGAZINES

... Airs Harriet Beecher Stowe, sketching her career and giving a vivid l picture of the effect which Uncle Tom had n on the slavery question. The article is illus- trated by a portrait of Mrs Stowe. Lovers of George Eliot will enjoy George Eliot's sCountry ...

LITERATURE

... once known as the Isle of France. Se, His main object, Mr Beaten tells us in his preface, is to lo describe the working of slavery and the present condition P of the ex-slave population and their descendants ; to trace, I the connection between the present ...