... abolition. There can be no more fruitful source of internal commotions than slavery. We refer not to the dangers arising from the subject popoulation so much as to the effects of slavery in setting class against class among the dominant race. It begets a race ...

... through many such Shocks as these. Let but the fatal sore of slavery be healed, and the United States may, perhaps, grow and strengthen even to the highest capabilities of the Saxon race. But slavery is weakness, because it is division ; and it is rightly ...

... carved the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin, it is plain that slavery was hateful, for it was made an absolute condition that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude should be admitted into the territory, otherwise than in ...

... the Northsrn people with the question of slavery iu the Southern states. The Union, he says, has become endangered, not:so much from the declared resolve of the victorious Republican party to prohibit slavery in the territories, or the Personal Liberty ...

... enforced during the administration of Mr. Buchanan, and it is scarcely probable they will be rescinded or evaded when an anti-slavery extensionist President is installed at Washington. Mr. Lincoln is not the man I to sacrifice principle to Southern threats ...

... threatened with destruction? The long continued and intemperate interference of the Northern people with the question of slavery in the Southern states has at length produced its natural effects. The different sections of the Union are now arrayed against ...

... speech r (meaning favourable to the present state of things in relation to slavery.) - As a Republican partisan speech it is; but upon the main point (the exclusion of slavery from the territories) he preaches that terrible alternative of whipping a seceding ...

... then gives a short history of slavery in the Republic since the establishment of the Union, and draws a horrible picture of the results that must arise to the South from the natural increase of the coloured race when slavery shall be excluded from the ...

... emanated the:mcst remarkable end mischievous Message ever sent by a President to Congress. Speaking of slavery agitation, he says, The agitation of the slavery question, which has been so long and wantonly persisted inby Northern men, has presluced the sectional ...

... will require explanation— There's a nigger in the fence, or, as the French say, one arrrere pense. The exclusion of slavery from the territories of the Union not yet formed into states is a deatleblow to the South, but such exclusion can only be ...

... Cabinet, could divine no other solution than a moral impossibility. That slavery and ireedom cannot harmonise is no fault of his. That he, a Northern man, should propose slavery to freedom in the very moment of freedom's victory, is a damning blot upon ...

... says, is close to hand. It is the long continued and intemperate inter:erence of the Northern peop7e with the question of slavery in the South, which has given rise to servile insurrection, and inspired the slaves with vague notions of freedom. Hence a ...