... DIFFICULTIES OF THE SLAVERY QUESTION. The Bill for the emancipation of the slaves in the district of Columbia was finally passed by the House of Representatives on Friday, after an earnest attempt to prolong the discussion the Pro-Slavery party, and a no ...

... question, martial law was in existence — that martial law and slavery are incompatible, and that therefore the slaves were free. We must say, without any reference to the institution of slavery, that that seems to us a very singular notion of law. Where ...

... against slavery. It would, in fact, be a blow struck by Great Britain against the whole African race, and in favour of the perpetuity !of slavery. It would be a contradiction of all the past I policy and persevering action of Britain against slavery i and ...

... against slavery. It would, in fact, be a blow struck Great Britain against the whole African race, and in favour of the perpetuity of slavery. It would be a contradiction of all the past policy and persevering action of Britain against slavery and the ...

... century by the united forces of the anti-slavery people of England and America. We consider it as the great decisive is>ue of the slavery question on the civilised world. We consider that this war is a great anti slavery war, not in form, but in fact; not in ...

... ground that the Federals were fighting for the abolition of slavery ; but they could nut face the proclamations of Mr Lincoln, which showed that, in all he did or refrained from doing as to slavery, he was prompted by considerations of military and poli- ...

... protection to slavery, but that the South refused it, although the only cause of separation was the very fear that slavery would not be protected ! Another unmistakeable myth. e also read that the North declared— We will protect the slavery of four millions ...

... deepest sense — a Re-Former, not a De-Former. Not that 1 like slavery, or obj ect to the emancipation of any kind or number of blacks in due place and time. But I understand some- thing more by slavery than either Mr J. S. Mill or Mr Hughes ; aad believe that ...

... slave or free. The Republican party held that slavery was the creature of local law, and that Congress being supreme in the territories, the local authorities had no power to legislate either for or against slavery. Such was the position of the several parties ...

... professed to be a war against slavery, (which the North had no right to suppress by force,) but a war against dismemberment, such as nations have always conceived themselves entitled to wage. Farther, that the anti-slavery feeling, always strong in the ...

... appointed to answer the j reasons. SLAVERY AMERICA. The Synod then took an overture from the Presbytery of Kelso, and setting forth the call which recent evetts in America presented the Synod to renew its condemnation of slavery, and its repudiation of fellowship ...

... A house built upon the sand can as well resist the winds and floods as slavery can resist enlightenment and progress. The moral laws of the universe must be suspended, or slavery will in the end go down. Look therefore India where your laws have carried ...