THE BRUSSELS ANTI-SLAVERY CONFERENCE

... THE BRUSSELS ANTI-SLAVERY CONFERENCE. Nearly all the Plenipotantiariee the Powers which were represented the Brussels Conference, among them Lord Vivian and Sir John Kirk, met tiaturday afternoon at the Belgian Foreign Office, under tbe presidency Baron ...

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... anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the t British coloisies. The Prince of Wales, who presided, P P said they hadl reason to congratulate themselves that h England wvas the first conntry Wflich alolisoled ] legal slavery. Her exam 1po Clad been followed ...

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... voted for the reception of anti-slavery memorials and peti- tions ; for motions to inquire into the constitutionality of slavery in the District of Columbia, and forty-two times for the Wilmot proviso for prohibiting slavery in the territory acquired from ...

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... Mitchell, advo- on cate, presided, and gave an interesting opening address fes on the subject of slavery. Mr Davis, at the outset, ag spoke of the nature of slavery, describing it in all its pa hideousness and misery. At considerable length, he the showed to ...

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... by the Republican Legislature prohibiting slavery in any of the Territories of the United States, and abolishing slavery in those districts directly under the government of the Federal authorities. Thus slavery lost its national character, and was checked ...

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... indebtedness. Mr- Thompson w8 mined foe of slaveowners and monopoliata a overand ?? of the most eloqnentand nase of the Anti Slavery Sooiety. Among his ma utteranoes wae aseries of effective lector in reply to the sophisms of the advocates of man, as represented ...