... cultivate the soil with all the advantages of slave labour. 11 has been well said —if it is our bounden duty to make war upon slavery that for such purpose we may take the bread from the mouths of our own people, can it be consistent with reason that we should ...

... 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 their views ...

... been somewhat extended. he President is heartily in favour of admitting California as a State into the Lnion, with her anti-Slavery Constitution. The closing paragraphs of the message respecting the distinction of Legislative from Executive powers, the extreme ...

... resolution proposed by Mr Root, of Ohio, tending to establish territorial governments in the Mexican conquests, and prohibiting slavery therein, had produced a division of 101 to 81; which the Northern or Wilmot Proviso party deemed triumph. From Canada the ...

... contributions wherever they found means, burning all the towns which affronted them, massacring men and carrying women into slavery. Their vessels were found built, armed, and appointed for fighting only, nor was there anything on board resembling merchandise ...

... inhuman slaveholder in ' le P re;>ent witness it. It never fell to our lot to W ',.' *!,, ' v rr and the poor negro has of slavery upon this .,it'niit r co,uure(l persons were in the cars, and should , e ar|t depot, but on inquiring, were informed 11 ~c ...

... ly opposed. We not o dy object the republican form of government, but we are opposed, on the one hand, to that system of slavery which is not only tolerated but maintained in America ; %nd, on the other, have had the best all reasons for condemning that ...

... personally examining into the state things in these colouies, and reporting the result of their observations to the Anti-Slavery Society, which they are leading members. ...

... undergo material change, whenever raw cotton or cheap sugar become elements of the calculation of profit. They must have slavery abolished in the West Indian colonies ; and yet, having ruined the planters, they are ready to take sugar on the cheapest ...

... (Hear. He reminded lion. Gentlemen that during the last 17 years, from 18(3, there had been borrowed in aid of abolition of slavery, Irish famine, and deficiencies, a sum 4.35,000,000, and in that time only £8,000,00(1 had been applied to its reduction, ...

... own proposals were. He reminded the House that during the last seventeen years there had been borrowed for the abolition slavery, Irish famine, and deficiencies, a sum of £35,000,000, and during the same period only £8,000,000 had been applied to its ...

... these circumstances, the conviction has been forced upon the minds of many—even of those most anxious for the abolition of slavery, that the present ineffectual system blockade should be abandoned, and other means adopted—involving a smaller sacrifice of ...