... Edin- Lurgh Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society was held in Queen. street Hall, Edinburgh. There was a very respectable attendance, composed chiefly of ladies. On the platform were a number of gentlemen interested in the anti-slavery movement. Mr. John Wigham ...

... the trouble. If, on the organization of the House, propositions were to be introduced to abolish slavery in the district of Colombia, or prohibit slavery in the territories, he trusted in God that his eyes had already rested on the last Speaker of the ...

... AND WEST-END COURIER. We may refer, by way of illustration, to the abolition of slavery in our colonial possessions. That was, undoubtedly, in itself a righteous measure, but the enthusiasm which it created in this country was as short-lived as it was ...

... comported itself well. It has plainly pronounced against slavery—a circumstance which precedents render not a little remarkable. Possibly some readers may lie surprised at learning that the invention of slavery,” that to say, of seizing and exporting natives of ...

... his music. The refreshments Avers of the first order, and the whole went off with brilliant eclat. Illustration of American Slavery.—A Chattel” for Sale.—“ Notice.—For sale, a coloured girl, of very siq>erior qualijicalions, who is now in Mr. Hall's gaol ...

... would undoubtedly have saved JOHN BULL both money and trouble if he had not interfered with the existing institutions of slavery. It seemed good, however, to JOHN, to pay twenty millions of the current coin of these realms for the great purpose of negro ...

... to understand how those, even of Mr. Hutt, uncorrected, support the conclusions either of his own majority or of the Anti-Slavery Society—viz., that the only limit of slave-trade is the demand for slaves; that the slave-trade is larger than it ever was ...

... combining not to take apprentices, they can not only engross the employment, but reduce the whole manufacture into a sort of slavery to themselves, and raise the price of their labour much above what is due to the nature of their work. The inhabitants of ...

... cal a airs, and give judgment in criminal cases with a ti dicticn that extended to all sentences except those 0 death or slavery The decisions of the hundred 0 rt' were given by the vote of all the members, and e confirmed with the heads of families ...

... comported itself well. It has plainly pronounced against slavery—a circumstance which precedents render not a little remarkable. Possibly some readers may surprised at learning that the invention of slavery,” that is to say, of seizing and exporting natives ...

... evidence raised Washington, „ dc pladame Robie) is changed in Columbine, Sir Waland people s cause succeeded; so the anti slavery (Mr. Kitchen) into Harlequin, Sir William question in this country, 1 had raised up Clark- u-ahoorlk (Mr. Franklin) into Pantaloon ...

... between the two great leading parties, refuse to vote for a candidate who is not pledged to their views on the question of slavery. The contest has produced great excitement not only in the contesters, but throughout the country. In the progress of the ...