... ibe ratilkatica oaths 13th of November. _ _ _ provisions, of a socialist tendency embodiedin the new Constitution. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except for the punishment of crime, can be tolerated within the State. The free exercise and enjoyment ...

... majority to secure an election could not be obtained. The northern and southern States are in violent opposition to the slavery question, which now made more pressing than ever in consequence the necessity for providing a constitution for California ...

... before the close of the month. 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 ...

... cannot agree in their choice of a Speaker. And why cannot they agree in the choice of a Speaker? Because the question of slavery, long ignored by American Statesmen —long staved off, in the hope that theevil day might pass by, and leave them undisturbed ...

... to be done with them The Convention lately sitting at Monterey to frame a constitution for California have resolved that slavery shall not be tolerated that country. A new screw steamer named the Livorno, of 500 tons burden, was launched at Dumbarton ...

... and for specific duties. The President is heartily in favour admitting California as a State into the Union, with her anti-slavery constitution. AVe fear there is truth in the President's suggestion, that our vast new frontier, the hornet's nests of Apaches ...

... Cobden, to point out what more harm there was in encoue raging war by accepting a loan, than there was in en,- couraging slavery, by purchasing slave-grown sugar. Mr Cobden evaded the question; but he made up for it by general attacks on the character ...

... oppressed people, and they have contracted many of the sinister qualities and slothful habits which are indicants of a state of slavery ; but give them some of the facilities of active freedom, and you will see how hard Irishmen can work, and with what docility ...

... had been done; its organisation had not been completed. In the Senate there had been some preliminary skirmishing on the slavery question, but the only discussion of interest that had taken placa was on General Cass's motion relating to diplomatic intercyarse ...

... literature, and the public mind was nurtured and prepared for those political changes which repealed the Test Act, abolished slavery, emancipated the Catholics, and opened up the municipal institutions and parliamentary representation of the people. Jeffrey ...

... been unimportant. From various State Legislatures we receive continued evidences of irascible and excited feeling on the slavery question.— The Boston grand jury had found a true bill against Professor Webster for the murder of 1)r Parkman. A letter appears ...

... water for the more respectable members of society. This is Mr Carlyle's remedy, neither more nor less. A state of serfdom or slavery, that is the political Canaan into which he proposes to conduct the present outcasts of society. It is needless to say, after ...