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BOOKS OF THE WEEK

... and Letters of Capt. John Brown, who was eseeuted at Charlestown, Virginia, Dec. 2, 1859, for an armed attack upon American Slavery, with Notices of some of his Confederates.' Edited by Richard D. Webb. (Smith, Elder, and ?? The Life of Nelson.' By Robert ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... southern planters in favour of the existing slavery: Our presence as British subjects in Charleston, and amidst so large a number of persons in every grade of life who were one and all identified with the system of slavery, necessarily had the effect of bringing ...

LITERATURE

... on the question of slavery during their present tenure of office, which claim for them the sympathies of man- kind: G 1. The forming of a treaty with Great Britain giving the u mutual right of search. 1 2, The abolition of slavery in the district of Columbia ...

LITERATURE

... short passage on the question how far this was tfrom the first an anti-slavery war. Mr. Cairnes says: It is true, the North did not take up arms diroctly and texplicitly to abolish slavery. It took up arms to defend the constitution-the constitution under ...

BOOKS OF THE WEEK

... 'Life in the Forests of France.' (Hurst and Blackett.)_ Sketches in North America; with Some Account of Con. gress and the Slavery Question.' By H. Reid. (Longman and Co.)-'Rome in1860.' By EdwardDicey. (Cambridge: Macmillan and Co.) LAw.-' The Province ...

BOOKS OF THE WEEK

... BOOXS OF THE WEEK. TnArvnL-' Journeys and Explorations in the Cotton Kingdom: a Traveller's Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American Slave States.' Based upon Three Former Volumes of Journeys and Investigations by the Same Author. By Frederick ...

LITERATURE

... pro- le venting the purchase by the tribe of Boers of Por- tl tuguese territory. The good faith of Portugal, in the anti-slavery treaty, is regarded by Mr. M'Leod it with but slight respect In the following briskly fe told incident of his voyage along ...

NOTES ON THE BRAZILIAN QUESTION

... 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 ...

STANZAS

... ease. Shall wosiau's wrongs, then, still unheeded ?? ? Is there no power death-labour to restrain ? In Britain's isle shall slavery's voice, alas I Wring out her agoniaiss drry in vain 2 rise ye, whose hearts are formed In tenderness; Lead forth the damsel ...

SLAVE SONGS

... 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 ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... aadversaries, and the earnestness -which would seem to preclude any doubt of his sincerity, with which he has fought against slavery in America; and, with the characteristic impudence of an American, he is advised henceforth to abstain from any such opposition ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... The impetuous policy of the anti-slavery party destroyed slavery in the British colonies, but also destroyed the British colonies themselves; and thereby caused so much opposition in other countries that the slavery which might otherwise have been got ...