... chance rise to a high station in society, and become the councillor of princes — a redeeming feature in the system of oriental slavery, which is wanting iv the far more cruel and hopeless despotism of the great western republic. — The Aile Boat. The late Bermundsly ...

... 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 tlieir refusal to vote for auy candidate for the speakership who was not pledged to their views ...

... somewhat extended. The Presi- dent is heartily in favour of admitting California as a state into the I'niou, with her ami slavery constitution. Accompanying the Presidential state papers we received, 1, the annual report of the Secretary of the Treasury; ...

... extalled hum- bug. They tell us that we owo everything to thia constitution. Now, I deny it altogether. * * * But, exclusive of slavery, an evil which America will overcome (applause), and speaking of the free states, I say they afford a spectacle to the world ...

... consideration, and shades of colour are not too closely investigated. — Hesperon, by Mrs. Houston. The Negro's Horror of Slavery. — On Saturday last, an affecting scene took place in the cars, about 2 miles below Newark, which vvas calculated to touch ...

... of those colon.es had rapidly grown into wealth and population and even the West Indies had gone through the change from slavery to freedom « much better than might have been anticipated. To those who alleged that we should abandon our colonies he would ...

... the free aud slave States, giving out of ihe recent acquisitions of territory. The resolutions in effect proposed to leave slavery precisely where it is in the States, but express un opinion that the institution is repugnant to the common feelings of mankind ...

... arrived at Liverpool on Monday morn- ing, bringing dates from New York of the 20th of Feb. and Halifax of the 23d. ?? The slavery debate in the Congress was still pro- ceeding. Within the few preceding days, gold from California had been received to the ...

... been an active Stock mar- ket during the preceding fortnight, and a general improve- ment iv prices. The agitation of the slavery question in Congress had but little effect upon stocks, confidence being generally felt in the stability of the t'uiou. The ...

... men now living. A Scotchman Tabkld and Flathered. — Auiougst the speakers, at a recent meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-slavery Society, was Robert Edmonds, a Scotch- man by birth, who had been liviug in South Carolina till about two years since, when ...

... chiefly in consequence, it is said, of negotiations with Sir Henry Bulweroutlie Nicaragua question being disapproved. The slavery question in connexion with California still occupied the attention of both branches of Congress. From New Mexico we learn ...

... in a long speech against the utility and necessity of maintaining the squadron on the African coast, for suppressing of slavery, moved an uddreaa to the Crown to direct thai negotiations be forthwith , ntered into for tbe purpose of releasing this country ...