Borrowed Cristes

... mark of affection by his bro- ther.' EASILY ANmwaEnD.-Among the Romans the gife of a ring was a badge of liberation from slavery. Married people can best explain whether it is so amongst the mo- derns. : WOMAN'S EmrxnE.-The apire S&as of New York prettily ...

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 ...

ECHOES FROM THE BLACK COUNTRY

... that name'! Atmrcir My godfatlers and godmothers in my Bap- tism, wherein I was made a member of the Forge, a child of Slavery, and an inheritor of Hobbles, l'addles, and Ball Tongs.1 Qsceiai ': What did your goifatlers and godmothers then do for ...

INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION

... made by the Northern merchants to prevent suoh colid Ldvantages slipping from their grasp. To pre- terd, therefore, that slavery was the real cause of the Amexlcan clvi war, was untrue, for the abolltion. lat party do slot represent the opinions of the ...

LITERATURE

... comparatively insignificant section of this party-is the extension of slavery beyond certain defined geographical houndaries. Within these boundaries, if slavery is to exist at all, slavery cannot be confined. It is in its very unature one of the most expansive ...

PARLIAMENT, LAST NIGHT

... to the question of slavery, which, according to many, was the cause of the civil war. This House will remember that the beginning of the war President lincoln declared that they had right, by the Constitution, to interfere with slavery. At later perioil ...

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 ...

LITERARY NOTICES

... thoroughly hypocritical in spirit and purpose, in theory and practice. It does not (he says) strike the axe at the root of slavery, but only aims a blow at the pockets of the ' rebel' slaveowners; and the effect of a proposition so base will only serve ...

Original Poetry

... go down to all time, As one raised up by Providence to save His country from disunion, and to free A people groaning under slavery. Thy work is ended, for the flag doth wave Again on Sumter, and is now the sign That the whole land is sworn to Liberty. Surely ...

LITERARY NOTICES

... eoloncl Shaw was all that she has painted him, and that Ir cle vas a hero in the true sense, fighting for the abolition ts of slavery, which he regarded as a national sin. There cm are also other men of the same stamp in the Northern TV :lriv, but their presence ...

FREEDOM TO JOHN BRIGHT

... voteless here, To thy four millions there denied a soul? What the free church, speech, school, vote, hand, career, With slavery's poison leavening the whole? Ask of that Senate, braggart but o'ercowed,' Of that Executive. weak, wilful, base: Ask of that ...

THE ROW OF THE ROTUNDA

... holy purpose of liberating their fellow- mu countrymen from the thraldom of slavery; as it is obvious cO that the great sums of money now spent with a view to TI s uappre slavery are doing more harm than good. 8. That,' of es ma ch as possible, negroes ...