... clergy, and the absence of conscience and of religion in the people. Slavery is the great curse, and cause of demoralization. How can the blessings of home dwell side by side with slavery? How can conscience exist when there are men beyond the pale of law ...

... now) that Mr. Lincoln was not an anti-slavery man until the war broke out, 11st be ignorant of the fact that his earliest political battles were foughf .itl Mer. Douglas on that very question. He always held that slavery was a crime, that the Legislature ...

... was adopted as the result of experience, but that there is clear proof that it is a mere vestige of an original state of slavery in which women were held by men by superior muscular strength. The inequality of rights between men and women has no other ...

... of the clergy, and the treatment of the Indians are subjects frequently mentioned. Slavery, it is said, is generally talked of as doomed, since the abolition of slavery in the United States; but still it exists, and beyond talk nothing has yet been done ...

... Maryland, and related in every way to slaveholders, gr. Creswell investigated the subject of slavery philosophically, and reached an independent anti-slavery view which he was able to state to the Mary- landers with immense effect, and yet with such excellent ...

... granite, had gradually distanced Maryland, starting with infinitely greater natural resources, but cursed with the system of slavery. And the natural irritation with which a poor man watches his rich partner heaping more riches together was of course increased ...

... on the same subjects in i863. The longer and more interesting part of the Notes refers, no doubt, to the question of slavery in Brazil, and the proposed repeal of the ABERDEEN Act. But even in his chapters on these subjects, as also in those on our ...

... high musical organization of the negro needs no better proof than the fact tat slavery never was able to keep him from singing. This is none the less true because slavery never directly tried to do so, but graciously per- 1itted him to exercise his vocal ...

... himself as a thorouzgh1 infidel on the subject of matrimonial felicity. The married man IS a wretched being condemned to slavery of the most unbearable kind; a cashier bound to supply a reckless woman with means for her extravagance; a dog obliged to ...

... virtues will be forgotten for want of honourable boasting-that it roused English society to the grievous wrongs of negro slavery. No one action of the English Parliament is more creditable to us as a nation than the abolition of that crying evil, however ...

... instance, the thing called Laus Deo-on hearing the Bells ring on the Passage of the Constitutional Amendment abolishing Slavery, appears to us either a piece of nonsense or blasphemy. But perhaps the very worst prose that ever was conceived has appeared ...

... Fields) were collected. Or rather, we should say, a fragment of a book, for the volume is eked out with half a dozen anti-slavery speeches and Reform papers. The work tells us nothing new about Canada; indeed, the journey is not of recent date, but was ...