... ABOLITION OF SLAVERY. The constitutional amendment for the abolition of slavery came up yesterday in the House of Representatives, on Mr. Ashley's amendment to reconsider the vote by which it was rejected last session. Mr. Ashley made an able and elaborate ...

... nations for help we must be prepared to ‘receive iton their conditions, which will be the abolition of slavery. If we are prepared to abolish slavery, it will not be necessary to go to European nations for protection ; they will give us not only recognition ...

... efforts would pot be unattended with success. Lord Brougham “ warmly eulogised the conduct of the United States in respect to slavery and the slave trade.” After o long discussion, in the course of which several peers urged that the whole question of railway ...

... can hardly doubt, have passed, as Mr, Johuson has done, onwards from resisting slaveowners to an iron determination that slavery should end, as the new President says, ‘‘now, unconditionally, for ever,” so that no State shall have the power to re-establish ...

... citizens of New York, asking for abolition of slavery in the United States. The Senate passed a vote of thanks to General Sherman and hisarmy. Inthe House of Representatives the joint resolution to abolish slavery by constitutional amendment was debated without ...

... of a man. His glowing speeches in favour of the Union, and his apparently earnest appeals in favour of a discontinuance of slavery attracted the attention of the Abolitionists, and President Lincoln appears to have fully approved of the choice which the ...

... obey they, among them the principle of State Rigit., lish those rights. Civil war is of conie. ¢ Constitution, slavery leads to civil « slavery may rithlullg be abolished, just , tices, not forbidden by Christianity nuy | as contrary to its essential spirit ...

... far South, so that the refugess consist, in great proportion, of women, cuurn.“:‘nd infirm and dtu.::d ;’nlon.‘ War and slavery ha A l of destitution m:fimw:.‘ perished from co;’d and o 4 sty aptan, UhA. Lo S 5 gass ths rosotpons un! i exhaust t! ...

... deep interest, but he is gone to the grave with the satisfaction of knowing that whatever termination is arrived at, that slavery which he abhorred shall pass away before the eyes of his own generation. All honour to the memory of Ricuarp Cospex ! ...

... the same party made a mistake in opposing the repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts, the abolition of the Slave Trade and Slavery, the removal of the Duty on Corn, the abolition of the Navigation Laws, and lastly, the repeal of the duty on paper ; all ...

... yon poor wasted Tile— Avenged g;mpnm. wobler things, Thun these sad scenes of strife Avenged by all the manhood won From Slavery and Chain, By all the joy that has eclipsed “The memory of pain. Anng.dolz all the bliss that thrills The mother’s grateful ...

... terminating the Reciprocity Treaty with Canada. A convention of the Toople of Missouri had ,IP‘“’d an ordinance abohshing slavery in that state. The Etna’s * war news” cannot be described as important. General Sherman was reported to be gradually feeling ...