... —that great and good man—for not abolishing. slavery at once in all the States of America. They who do speak inAbraham Lincoln had no such power. Abraham Lincoln had constitutionally no more power to abolish slavery in the individual States of America than ...

... SLAVERY. It woo said we ought ;;t.:have done it because thin was a community of slaveholdera Gentlemen, I trust that our abhorrence of slavery is not in the least abated or diminished. (Loud cheers.) For my own part, I consider it as one of the most horrible ...

... AMERICAN SLAVERY The Rev. Professor Grosvenor, President of the Central College, New York, delivered two lectures on American slavery, in the Free High Church Elgin, on the c venings of Sabbath and Monday last-the subject being the Christian duty of ...

... THE SOUTHERN STATES AND SLAVERY. The Southern States of America are not vet reconciled to the election of Mr Abraham Lincoln as President of the Republic. Indeed, his success has only increased the excitement; and the threats of secession are loader, ...

... principles of the repoldiean party, which, though neither aboLtionist nor anti-slavery, distinctly declared that there should be ne further aggressions on the part of slavery, and no addition to the slave territory of tur Union. He referred to the close ...

... of President Lincoln to make the question at issue one of slavery no slavery, created great disappointment. Hitherto the war has been carried on by the North, not for the abolition of slavery, but for the maintenance of the Union. There is nothing in ...

... AMERICA—THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY. In the mass of news brought the last two or three American mails, there are several documents worthy of notice. far the most important President Lincoln's proclamation abolishing slavery in certain states. the terms of ...

... AMERICAN AFFAIRS—SLAVERY. The recent American news seem to indicate that the Confederate cause is not at all a hopeful state. The capture of Fort Sumter and the shelling of Charles town, with, we may say, the certainty of its being speedily reduced to ...

... THE WAR'S EFFECT ON SLAVERY. The following is an ertract from the letter of Federal general officer, dated New Orleans, August 27, I 517.3 : — The Southern people do ant ask for the re•inatitution of sLavet7. They understand that nniody is lett witlin4 ...

... extrnordinny defence of the institution of slavery was delivere . The Rev. George F. Kettell said that the real question was to the change discipline, and that was.bused on the question as to the right of slavery. Was slavery a sin to such an extent that a man ...

... GUTHRIE ON AMERICAN SLAVERY. At public meeting held in the Queen Street Hall, Edinburgh, reference to American slavery, and the noble efforts which Dr Cheever and the Church of the Puritans making against the slave power in that country, Dr Guthrie proposed ...

... LINCOLN'S MESSAGE ON SLAVERY. There .appears to us to have been a great deal of ungenerous, we had almost said unfair criticism, President Lincoln's last message. That message is simply a proposal for the sure but gradual abolition of slavery. It may or may ...