... SLAVERY AND THE CONFEDERATE CONSTITUTION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE DUNDEE ADVERTISER. SIR,— During the debate on slavery, the meeting Independents, last week, it was asserted by one of the speakers that the word slavery was not to be found in the Constitution ...

... the Republic on the slavery question as to those the Northern Republican party. Having quoted the opinions of Washington, Madison, Jefferson, Patrick Henry, Monroe, John Randolph, and John Quincey Adams —all strongly opposed to slavery—the lecturer said ...

... MR GLADSTONE ON SLAVERY. It seems tbat Mr Moore, of Northampton, recently wrote to Mr Gladstone making some inquiries as to the sentiments of the right hon. gentleman in refer- ence to slavery. The following reply was received : — 11, .Downing Street ...

... requiring them give an answer. This is just what should have expected. If the Southerns give up slavery they give up the whole came of quarrel. Slavery is the cardinal point of their political and religious faith. They have fenced it round witli savage ...

... answer to « pro-slavery men” extends over two pages ; while his “ answer to others”—a very vague designation for the great majority of anti-slavery men—fills seventy-five. The -former is a brief and gentle statement of the evils of slavery—the latter a long ...

... BUYING OUT SLAVERY. The ' New York Tribune' says A proj et is now seriously discussed in political circles at Washington, which looks to the final settlement of the slavery question by the introduction into Congress of a proposition to buy out all the ...

... (Jheever, of New York, who, though deemed imprudent by many anti-slavery men in America, had for many years poured iu the unwilling ear f America the testimony of scripture against slavery ; and to the last interesting tea meeting held here in honour that ...

... on the slavery question, those of the founders of the Southern Confederacy :-- OPINIONS OF PRESIDENT DAVIS AND VICE-PRESIDENT STEPHEN. President Davis was, at the last election, the chief of the Fire-Eaters, whose motto was, The extension slavery, under ...

... THE CLERGY ON THE CRIME OF SLAVERY. ►JU.TI . Not many weeks ago the clergy of the Confederate States made appeal to our piety to prop np the falling fortunes of their peculiar institution. They made no mouths about it, but asked to consider the crime ...

... requiring them to give answer. This is just what we should have expected. If the Southerns give up slavery they give up the whole cause of quarrel. Slavery is the cardinal point of their political and religious faith. They have fenced it round with savage ...

... MR BRIGHT AND NEGRO SLAVERY. (From the ' Saturday Review.') The negro is peculiarly unfortunate in his friends. In America, they decline to free bim in the places where they can protect him ; and in the places where then can nothing to help bim, they ...

... that State after September 1860 shall be sold into slavery ; and that all such negroes as shall enter the State after September 1561, and remain there twenty-four hours, shall also be sold into slavery for ever. Mississippi, the chief of the repudiators ...