... forty-seven issues had been tried, and great excitement existed 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 has not pledged to their views ...

... 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 ...

... and by an assembly chosen for the express purpose. On the vital question of negro slavery, this constitution is irreproachable. By an express provision neither slavery, nor involuntary servitude, unless for the punishment of crimes, shall ever be tolerated ...

... and for specific duties. The President is heartily in favour of admitting California a state into the Union, with her anti- Slavery Constitution. So far very well. thin ks may safely and wisely wait for the action of New Mexico with regard lo all disturbing ...

... hands for the very bonds and shackles which she so indignantly denounced* and so fiercely broke asunder, aad again embrace a slavery the emancipation from which was the mightiest achievement in her history. Shame, if not policy, would spurn such an idea. ...

... 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 ...

... nervous, impressive Mr Calhoun, the leader of the south, the advocate free trade, the friend of peace, and the champion of slavery. Beside him is his colleague Mi M'Duffe, who first startled the ear of the Senate by threatening its very floor the disseverance ...

... however, that the people should not be juggled. Hitherto, the working classes had themselves to blame for their serfdom and slavery. The man who earned 30s despised tbe man who earned 10s a week, though, if they were united, they might earn 3/. week. Was ...

... railways, of electric telegraphs, and of steamboats. We must expect that the serfs of Russia, being men, will prefer freedom to slavery—(cheers)—and being ten to one, will they not do what has been done in every other country in Europe— assert their freedom ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...