... the argument being that Scripture was not opposed to slavery, and that both sections having been parties to the framing of the constitution of the United States, were not entitled to cavil at slavery. One of the speakers, Mr. Brooks, said : But, oh, ...

... prisoners conversed freely on a variety of subjects. Cook said to a gentleman .who addressed him, that he fully believed slavery to be a sin, and that it would be abolishsd in Virginia in less than ten years, and that by the people of Virginia. He was ...

... the prisoners conversed freely on a variety of subjects. Cook said to a gentleman who addressed him, that fully believed slavery to be a sin, and that it would be abolislisd in Virginia in less than ten years ' and that by the people of Virginia. Ha was ...

... rejected all appearance of spiritual comfort at their hands, even maintaining that those who were capable of countenancing slavery were not fit to come between him and his nod. The other day, he said that instead of any clergyman of Charlestown, if they ...

... House debate continued . on , the Slavery question by the Democrats. Three ballots were taken for speaker, the last resulting in bringing Mr. Sherman within three votes of being elected. The dispute as to tht Slavery question continues to create a warm ...

... State to separate from the Union. A northern representative read him a legal lect are this point, and Asserted that the pro-slavery members needed chastisement. This provoked a storm, and member said, if they c».me from the North to doit, they would be warmly ...

... power of Congress to interfere with slavery, on the impending crisis, on the necessity for being loyal to the Unionand the constitution, and Helpers Book, in which physical violence for the extirpation of slavery was recommended. It was urged that ...

... the argument being that Scripture was not opposed to slavery, and that both sections having been parties to the framing of the constitution of the Ignited States, were not entitled to cavil at slavery. One of the speakers, Mr. Brooks, said : • But, oh, ...

... view of the politicians of di; the free states, banked together for the purpose of I an* assault upoin the institution of slavery in tho south, there are at this moment emissaries through. , out tble south carrying out the programme laid down sir in thit ...

... and hoping on the part of the anti-slavery party iv America, — the southern states are more thau ever eager to exteud their peculiar insti- tution ; when the abolitionists hear ou all hands proposals for fostering slavery by a renewal of the slave trade ...

... political rights of the case. The „bond which serves to keep the States together not merely recognises or allows of slavery, but it is slavery. Our protesters are not without their formal evidence, their standing quotations, their written and legal instances: ...

... religion is made I to take in America as here, and the party objects. which it is made to serve; impose upon the advocates of slavery the necessity of some attempts atScriptural argument. Their appeals to Scripture:are however negative, and therefore on the ...