... SLAVERY. From to 1700,300,000 negroes were taken from Africa thousand per jeir—Las Casas's sym- pathv for the Indian, aobelituted African slavery. It is estimated by the Abbe H.iynal and Cocker that to obtain the present stock in the west, some 10,«00 ...

... T ISil SLAVERY. It is a trite saying, that ‘one half of the world doesn't know how the other half lives,’ and think the circum* stance on which we are about to otfer few remarks will powerfully illustrate the proverb. In tho workhouses of Ireland arc ...

... ''® 0 0 to. Jfxw p neglect of internal improvements, and discussed the slavery question from an anti-slavery point of view. An anti-slavery convention was in progress at Buffalo on the 10th. Tie steamer Chesapeake, from New York to Portland, wot isbore ...

... work, and noticing that American Slavery constituted most difficult and solemn problem, his Lordship observed :—* I have no wiah to gloss over entire and ardent sympathy with its victims and its opponents. The Anti- Slavery party in the United States may ...

... In s-me points of view, this aristocracy of colour even more revolting than slavery itself. It has none of the excuses, none of the temptations which may be pleaded for slavery. No section of American society can imagine that it has an overpowering interest ...

... constituencies for whose immediate benefit they are delivered and printed. This speech, however, entitled The Barbarism of Slavery,’ is too lemarkable to be pa-sed by. A more studied insult Southern slaveholding members, who compose nearly one-half of the ...

... arose inland traffic in slavery, and were that market not afforded, the annual increase of slavery there would soon render their value unproductive. If this market was nut afforded, death blow would given to the institution of slavery i'self. From this fact ...

... the candidate Free-sudors, taose opposed to iheextonaleu of slavery, they, like the Know-Nothing!, are io some extool Amen oau in their priucip'ra, luaiinuch as they seek tho abolition of slavery, which f rthoaouth ru .state* of the Union ia recogn-s-d the ...

... increased zest, but they have been brought to something like a stand by the Emperor’s objection 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 the ...

... insecure .account of the institution of slavery (Applause.) The South had made slavery the issue, and having rushed into the hattle-lield to settle the question, it was sinking into inevitable ruin. Abolish slavery, and emigration would flow from Europe ...

... thirty-one states there are eighteen slavery states, and, of course, thirteen are anti-slavery. In the year 1850 the universal populuti all the States was as follows : Whites in Anti-Slavery States, Whites in Slavery States. Slaves. Coloured—free, 12,873 ...

... visible long after it is forgotten that Preston Brooks nearly caned to death Charles Sumner for bold speech daring the great slavery excitement of 1856. The latter deed was unjustifiableit was a flagrant outrage: no doubt of it ; but it was not the deliberate ...