... purpose. The initiation of American slavery lies at the door of England. The question is therefore one we should aproach tenderly and forbearingly. Our cotton trade makes us even the subsidisers of American slavery. Necessity, it is true, justifies this ...

... COTTON AND SLAVERY. TO THE EDITOR. t, S ,l! l ,—lt is now nearly a month since the papers relative It trade which we are told is as 'brisk as ever, t h e te,promised to 'be laid on the table; and, I hope , a fter tdu ct ° aYs, some member will move for ...

... COTTON AND SLAVERY. TO THE EDITOR. 041R,—It is no w nearly a month since the papers relative 11 . er 'ee slave trade ' which we are told is as brisk as ever, e . Promised to be laid on the table; and, I hope, after bjtelidays, some member will move for ...

... MR. GLADSTONE ON SLAVERY. The following letter has been addressed by the secretary of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to Mr. L. W. Moore, of Northampton. It is in reply to a letter from Mr. Moore, written after reading Mr. Gladstone's Newcastle speech ...

... COTTON AND SLAVERY. TO THE EDITOR. Slit,—The following, taken from Mr. R. Burn's recent lecture on the cotton question and. India, at Bury, will show how costly has been our unreciprocated trade with slave labour to us. He says : In the last six years ...

... ANTI-SLAVERY DEPUTATION TO THE AMERICAN MINISTER. At two o'clock yesterday afternoon his Excellency C. F. Adams, United States Minister to this country, received a deputation of the members of the committee of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society ...

... were with the question of slavery and the rights of individual states; but leaving the States by themselves and for themselves to settle their differenc es , w h et her by war or by peaceable means, our only hope being that the end Would come speedily ...

... b redeem the stars and stripes from the odious o, slavery under which they had so long labouNnio be thought the friends of freedom had great cause lh encouraged, for the right of search, coupled °I fl proper encouragement to form Christian states ° I ...

... domestic institution from which their livelihood was confessedly derived. Many among them may have hated slavery, but all coveted the profits which flowed from its continuance. How truthfully Mr. Brooks described the feeling of the people is manifest ...

... abolition of slavery, there can be no doubt that the South is contending for the maintenance and extension of slavery, and that hostile proceedings on our part t o wards the North must inevitably prove a succour and encouragement to slavery in the South ...

... fighting for the maintenance and extension of slavery. No doubt the Southern states support this detestable institution, while the North treat it with indifference; but the question remains whether slavery is the cause of secession. lam aware that men ...

... with anti-slavery feelings. They, generally speaking, have sided with the North, on the ground that the war is a war with slavery. I have anxiously striven to see how that stands, and I an unable to discover that it is a war with slavery. How can it ...