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LITERATURE

... see that the abolition of slavery through- i out the States was the only safe and effective way of I bringing the war to an end, This volume of speeches is intended to serve as a a contribution to the history of the anti-slavery I struggle in America under ...

LITERATURE

... require in this I country to enable us to form a just estimate of t slavery in its influence upon society generally. The author does not indulge in exaggerated denuncia- e tions of slavery, neither does he gloss over its t hideous features ; he simply recounts ...

I L121RATU. I

... ; and also that slavery would die out under the teachings of experience, and the ad- monitions of public opinion throughout the world. It is true these two anticipations are irreconcileable; for, if a state of society based on slavery-wwhich the Confederacy ...

LIFE OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN

... 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 ...

LITERARY REPORT

... it may comfort the editor under any It criticism which may be levelled against his work, h Slavery Doomed-by F,%EDERICK MILNE EDGE 0 -is an essay on slavery in the United States, with ethe object of showing that the results of free and slave labour must ...

LITERATURE

... progress of slavery in the United States, a subject upou which people generally have need to be better informed. The author's speculations, penned before the present war began, as to the probable course of events there as bearing upon the slavery difficulty ...

MR. MILL ON THE SUBJECTION OF WOMEN

... 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 ...

LITERATURE

... Mr. Edmund White, author of Athelatan, haswritten a '!poetic fragment against slavery, which he has dedicated to the members; friends, and supporterr of the Anti-slavery society. It is a v ehement protest, that will please the friends of emancipation ...

LITERATURE

... preaching sermons, and publishing pamphlets G against slavery, but offering no scheme Nx for its extinction. This is scarcely correct, many as plans have been offered for the abolition of slavery, til but they have all been rejected by the slaveholders ...

A JOURNEY IN BRAZIL

... 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 ...

MUSIC

... DAILY NEWS. Stst,-Tho ?? of t~he Nourtliers States of Americat are aiccused of insinterity in their declatittions 1 agninst slavery because they do not allow free blacks to be on a social equatlity w itlC tClem. As an Entglishman I de- sire to ask usy f ...