... distinguished gentlemen were also pre- Isent. I Sir SA.MUEL BAKER, who chose for his subject -Slavery, said be proposed In his lecture to trace the origin of slavery, and to show'that the exist- ence of this great evil depended on the low scale of civilisation ...

... MR. BRIGHT ON AM;ERICAN SLAVERY. ag The following are a few of the most striking passages in ~ or Mr. Bflght's speech at Rochdale on Tuesday night: ag - :re Let us look at two or three facts which I take to* be very er, simple, and to lie on the surface ...

... NENVMILNS A. AINT-SLAVERY SOCIETY. OIFPORTNNT tOI~NO' According to previolus rn DDgaetCilt, 3 tateetg tbis ?? took place in the Black lull Hall 11p, Fjidity the 25th Novemher Iet, for the ?? receiving two ?? of thc cerrepilencebetw5 the American Governmallt ...

... of slavery intelligible. Mr. Webster, in lais sierch on the compromise of 1850, says : Three things are quite clear as historical truths. One is that there was an expectation that, on the ceasing'of the iniportation of slaves from Africa, slavery would ...

... gneat salva- tion. The skies are brighter and the air is purer, now that slavery bau bten handed over to judgment. After speaking of the part he himself had taken In oppos- Ing slavery, he went on- Say what you will, the slave a the humblest and grandest ...

... PASSAGE Or' THE ACT ABOLISHING SLAVERY. The New York Tribune thus describes the passage ef this measure. The cquestion was then taken on the adoption of the following Senate. joint resolution, submitting to the legislatures of the several States a proposition ...

... R, Birks, M.A., admitted thrit there was a strong anti-slavery feeling in the country; but asserted that, on ?? grounds, there were many who sympathised with the South, The first mention of slavery In Scripture was In ?? with a divine promise, and in the ...

... resolution, having in view the amendment of the Constitution to abolish slavery tbroughout th, country. Mr. Ashley, of Ohio, endorsed the words of Prmi. dent Lincoln, namely :-If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. The proposition whether thi, universal ...

... recently the defence of slavery has laboured under great difficulties, because its apologists (for they wevere mere apologists) took half-way grounds. They confined the defence of slavery to mere negro slavery, thereby giving up the slavery pimnciple, admitting ...

... ,H N EW SLAVERY IN BRITISH. GUFYIAA.' Our ieaders M6e doubtless aware that for a. tonsiderable number of years past the sugar to Dlanters of British Guiana have been in the Wv habit of supplying themselves with labourers, l, under specified conditiona ...

... have felt the grinding despotism of the slavelsolding oligarchy, would ask a Guni-'n with slavery? It was slavery ?? assailed the life of the nation. It wvass slavery which drove loyal cucizeas to caves and forests for shelter. When ihe Union armlies caine ...

... necessarily have pushed the idea of slavery ta the walL It was the folly of Mr. Jefferson Davist and Co. to attempt to deepen and widen the foundas- tions of slavery. They were not satisfied to recog. nise slavery as a transitory institution, destined ...