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Though the cessation the war has happily deprived exciting news from the I States, that which conies to hand is

... slaves ; and slavery was abolished, without placing the free negroes in position which formidable, since their number was too small for them ever to claim the exercise of their rights. But such not the case in the South. The ...

MURDER?? PRESIDENT LINCOLN

... else it may do, will certainly not diminish their hatred slavery, of that habit violence, that con tempt of all obstacles, human and divine, when they stand in the way of self-will, which slavery engenders. ' The black man rtyists, lash him ; the white ...

THE RECENT OCCURRENCES IN JAMAICA

... law,' which, for month, has allowed the shooting, and hanging, and flogging of itB victims. The evil spirit engendered by slavery is not got rid of in less perhaps than hundred years. In this late outbreak tney have revelled blood, and sported with life; ...

NEWS OF THE DAY

... object of disseminating anti-slavery opinions in this country, is now more. In a circular announcing the dissolution of the society, the committee say : —The dream of a slave*empire is now dispelled. Not only has the pro-slavery Government established at ...

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... slaves in the West Indies, they lad until now been dead to the miseries of slavery in the American States. It was the demand for slave-grown cotton which alone upheld slavery, but now the ejes of our merchants wore opened to the fact that we counl ob- ...

NEWS OF THE DAY

... designed to promote. The rapid development of anti-slavery principles and policy during the American war, lias now practically ended in the emancipation of the negroes and the virtual abolition of slavery. Although the whole the btates have not yet formally ...

NEWS OF THE DAY

... in farewell address to his constituents, bids them give the notion that slavery is of Divine institution. He thought once, but says, God has brought about this destruction slavery, and I am not going to raise my puny arm against His decrees, especially ...

NEWS OF THE DAY

... but slavery —the cause of its disruption—will practically continue to exist, and by its existence will expose the country to the dangers of protracted strife, and possibly to the horrore of a servile war. The only way effectually to abolish slavery is ...

NEWS OF THE DAY

... the President, and that case would in all probability have been shot too, is still spared to help to complete the overthrow slavery, ib some fortune or instinct changed his mind before the theatre opened, and went a journey with his wife. Johnstone is still ...

NEWS OF THE DAY

... even upon the lofty serenity of Lord Stanley's philosophic mind Not a bit of it. His Lordship has his own opinions about slavery, and the slave trade, and the responsibility of this country, and all the feeling in the world won't move him. This is his ...

EXTRACTS FROM NEW BOOKS

... patronised by the Boffins, and if you had come from those halls of slavery———That's mere nonsense, ma, said Lavinia.— How ! exclaimed Mrs. Wilfer, with sublime severity.—Halls of slavery, ma, is mere stuff and nonsense, returned the unmoved Irrepressible ...

NEWS OF THE DAY

... his very brief speech on the slavery question the other night, which speech was omitted from all the morning papers. His Lordship said : The conduct of the United States Government had been perfect upon the subject of slavery, and he was astonished at the ...