ROMANCE OF REAL LIFE

... in words that touched a sympathetic cord in the hearts of his hearers, Mr. Beecher told about the child, She was born in slavery, he said. A benevolent woman, who was nursing our sick soldiers in the hospital at Fairfax, found her sore, and tattered ...

Court and Fashion

... by every flood of pro-slavery articles and speeches l which reaches them whenever a vessel man- ages lo ran the blockade ; but it is now time that higher principles and aims should make themselves heard, and that the anti- slavery party in America should ...

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 ...

Literary Notices

... Indies and American Slavery is very clear and very able, although some of the writer's conclusions on the slavery question may be disputed. He writes calmly, and without the wild enthusiasm of the fools who would destroy not only slavery, but with it the ...

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 ...

POETRY

... hast the power no tyrants know- The powei that justice can bestow; Then lay the bloody despot low, And buist the bonds of slavery! Tie not dismayed if fortune frown; '1hils shalt thou keep the tyrant down! On! on! and thon thy work shalt crown Amid the ...

WHAT IS LIFE?

... uneven road, A truly vain and empty show; A stormy and tempestuous sea, A scene of sorrow and distress, A state of moral slavery, A bleak and batren wilderness; A loug and dreary winter's day, An ignisfatuus and a suare, A sky without a cheering ray, ...

A FENIAN ON HIS FRIENDS

... prison's gloom, My native soil was Ireland, The inland of the free, But I oorned to live the Saxon's thrall, In chains and slavery. In proud diedain to be a slave, I emigrated o'er the wave. A citizen of the Unlted States In due time I become, And there ...

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 ...

Literary Notices

... was impelled mainly by slavery, and was primarily dependlenlt en slavery, is no argument in justifica-l tion of the v ice. The utmost which* it proves is, f that the economlical p1-ogress of nationss has been1 faster with slavery than it would otherwise ...

THE FINE ARTS

... their peculiarities, therefore, we merely mention that they are there. In noticing in our last the sketches illustrative of Slavery, by J. Noel Paton, ?? now on view in Hill's Gallery, we omitted to state that the series, photographed by Mr Thomas Annan ...

PUBIC AMUSEMENTS, &c., THIS DAY

... his good tblh. INQUnRER.-Printed matter of any kind harged at the same postal rate. THE ALI.sns OF INr0UiTY.-At one time slavery was our domestic instltntion. In Lincoln's message it is a legal claim by certain persons on tee labonr of oertain other ...