... sacrificing their dearest interests on the altar of national vanity. He, and he was sure those before him, had no sympathy with slavery, but he was also certain that they abominably detested and repudiated that mawkish sentimentality which in some quarters prevails ...

... zest, but they have been brought to something like a stand-still by the Emperor’s objections to recognise the principle of slavery as a legitimate institution, and by the firm refusal of the Confederate delegates to abandon the principle which is to be ...

... Federal writers had persuaded Europe was caused by slavery. He praised highly the courage and virtues of the South, and denounced the anti-slavery cry of the North as hypocrisy, for they would rivet slavery to-morrow on the necks of the blacks, if the South ...

... certain extent withdrew from them the sympathies of large portion of those who objected, as he did, to the whole system of slavery. thought that on both sides there were great difficulties, and he felt that England would do well to abstain at present, from ...

... and all just, we, the undersigned, have assembled in His temple, on this holy and ever-memorable day of our liberation from slavery, to testify and bear witness to our most gracious deliverer, the mighty Emperor and Cajsar Alexander Nikolajewicz; that whereas ...

... to the news of a Southern victory; but if it were made known that if the South succeeded slavery would continue, would they still do so? If the theory of slavery were hateful to Englishmen, they must think much before they declared that all their sympathies ...

... States, Mr Stephen. “This stone,” be says of slavery, which was rejected by the builders —rejected by the builders of the original constitution of America, when Washington declared his abhorance of slavery; when Maddison, the drawer up of the constitution ...

... Physician, and Nurse. SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL, Act 11., Scene 1-Sir Peter and Lady Teazle, Sheridan. THE POLISH BOY: The Release from Slavery, Request. THE LADY’S REQUEST TO HER LOVER— A Struggle between Love and Pride. A Burlesque. JESSIE BROWN —Founded on an Incident ...

... things that are in their nature antagonistic to liberty. mean to have slavery out of it—abolish slavery once for all. President Lincoln, writing on the subject, says—“ Tell your anti-slavery friends I shall go out all right.” I always believed that, but I ...

... up in Australia, which has a climate suited to our race, and has lonunately been kept untainted by the curse of coloured slavery.” In later letter, November stb of the same year, 1856, Sir George Lewis again wrote as follows, shortly before the late President ...

... is to express the deep grief,, alarm, and indignation with which we have pernsed the pleading on behalf of slavery in general, and American slavery in particular, to which many servants the Lord Jesus Christ have not scrupled to append their names. With ...

... be done with it? Then there arose a great struggle between the freesoil party and the slave party. The free-soil parly and slavery shall not be brought into these territories. The slave party said that any man should go where he liked with his slaves. Upon ...