... speeches, in which he represented the North as fighting for freedom, and the Siuth as contending for the perpetuation of slavery. spoke if the war had been commenced by the North for the emancipation the slaves, or by the South for keeping theni in bondage—we ...

... is greater diversity of race and object without civij war beiug the result. Others, again, said the cause of the war was slavery, and that is the opinion which germing most into favour, though it has less foundation than any other. The war was commenced ...

... If that eoqld be Mid with troth would be en!o*inm on slavery a.« vstem of moral and mental training which would justify all its advocates and apologists have put forward in .to excu*e. One ' f slavery is the low moral and mental ' .udition to which it degrades ...

... If the Southern States are unconditionally re-admitted, on no other condition than their acquiescing in the abolition of slavery, there the greatest likelihood that the Republicans will be relegated to that subsidiary position which they occupied previous ...

... subordinated. Slavery ornoslaveiyhasbeeninhismind, whatever it may have become, a question of inferior moment. Before he threw himself headlong into the arms of the ultra-Abolitionists and extreme Republi- his cry was, the Union, with slavery or without ...

... that the war had little chance of being carried on to a successful termination except on the footing of the abolition of slavery, and that, without this object in view, there was no likelihood whatever of the fierce fratricidal conflict recommending itself ...

... he will hang and shoot prisoners if the Confederates do so, and that for every negro soldier taken prisoner and sold into slavery, or treated otherwise than as prisoner of war he will 'send a white Confederate to hard labour. If this war is to become one ...

... could be the t'°T hatever ma 7 he thought of J 'I? 01 l ' ie ...

... rule, remained faithful to their masters ; and 'if their services as soldiers was to be had, was only freeing them from the slavery they did not appear to wish to escape from, to impress them another they did not wish to enter into. Slaves were made soldiers ...

... of the army, \ are in favour of the Democratic party. The home majority in Maryland is against the | adoption of an anti-slavery constitution. Vice■ President Stephen is in favour of peace, on the basis of acknowledging the sovereignty of the States. ...

... the effect any propositions for the restoration of peace must embrace the integrity of the Union, and the abandonment of slavery, and must come from the authority controlling the rebel arm} r . engagement tok place on Johnston Island, which terminated ...

... the people of the North-West were the back-bone, to speak, of the American Republic. An agricultural community, opposed to slavery, they have but few feelings common with the traders | of the Eastern cities or the ex-cotton growers of the Southern plantations ...