... AMERICA. From Washington the intelligence is unimportant, Con- gress continuing to debate the Slavery question. A change iii the Cabinet was rumoured, ...

... America is still uncomfortable on account of its anti-slavery and pro-slavery parties. Mr. Webster has de- livered an address, in which he declares unequivocally for the progressive extinction of slavery, and says he does so for the sake of the preservation ...

... tendered, and there is little ground probably, there- fore, for the statement that Mr. Crittenden had been sent for. The slavery question, in connexion with California, 8till) occupied the attention of both branches of Congress. On the 20th, in the Senate ...

... refusing to stay the sentence of death. It had been decided to execute him on the 30th ult. The anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the British West Indies was to be celebrated in Lowell, Massachusets, on the 1st of August. ...

... ment, as Minister to England, was confirmed. The debates ..in Congress had not resulted in the accomplishment of any of the slavery measures which have been before the House for such a length of time. A formidable crevasse had broken out in the Mississippi ...

... notice of a bill to erect a monument to the President in Washington. Strong hopes were entertained that the com- promise Slavery Bill would meet with the assen t of the Senate and the Lower House. It was anticipated that Congress would shortly adjourn ...

... A new cabinet must now also be formed; and one point of in- terest will be the result of the new state of affairs on the slavery question. A letter had been received from an officer of the Arctic Expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, dated off New- ...

... to'thank you, in the name of justice and humanity, for your timely remarks in the Tunes of June 11, on the subject of American slavery, and more especially for your aniiina'lversioiis OIl the brutal assault made upon me by a mob while I was quietly and ino ...

... done by moral means alone. Slavery undoubtedly is a curse, but it is a condition of a certain state of society. Let that state be improved— let commerce quicken the energies, and Chris- tianity expand the heart, and slavery will vanish as it has vanished ...

... glorious constitution of this land, and which every one of us should claim in opposition to every imposition of the semi-slavery of the method of paying by truck. This would be an easy plan by which we could redeem ourselves and complete a general em ...

... this very obvious truism, Mr. FERRAND then went on to denounce the very men who had been most active in putting down the slavery he so abhors, Where are those canting whining hypocrites, the Quakers? (cheers and laughter): they who branded the West India ...

... issue in the country, the opinions which he set forth were anything but ultra for, though candidly avowing that he looked on slavery as an evil, he has openly declared, that he considered its pre- sent existence as not a smbject for the legislation of the ...