... the subject of negro slavery, be so very fine a line between the Southerns and the French, that a moral microscope will be required in order to detect it. It is not at all re-assuring remember that it was through Mexico negro slavery was first introduced ...

... Northerns did not to war against slavery, but for the preservation of dominion, and that their motives were more like those which would be derived from a belief in Moloch, than from the gentle faith of Christianity. Hating slavery aud its abominations, all ...

... favour of negro slavery ; and if there be any, only very small minority of them who would bold enough to brave the odium which would be sure to follow if they declared their sentiments. There is general a feeling among us that slavery is wrong in principle ...

... abhorrence which prevails this country against slavery will cause an echo unfavourable to the Southern cause. Let success once attend the efforts which are being made to put the question as one of Slavery, or no slavery, and there can be no doubt to the answer ...

... war America commenced, there were some good and well-intentioned people who thought it would lead to the emancipation from slavery of the negro race within the limits of the United States. There were other very enthusiastic persons who supposed that the ...

... speeches, in which he represented the North as fighting for freedom, and the Siuth as contending for the perpetuation of slavery. spoke if the war had been commenced by the North for the emancipation the slaves, or by the South for keeping theni in bondage—we ...

... is greater diversity of race and object without civij war beiug the result. Others, again, said the cause of the war was slavery, and that is the opinion which germing most into favour, though it has less foundation than any other. The war was commenced ...

... If that eoqld be Mid with troth would be en!o*inm on slavery a.« vstem of moral and mental training which would justify all its advocates and apologists have put forward in .to excu*e. One ' f slavery is the low moral and mental ' .udition to which it degrades ...

... he will hang and shoot prisoners if the Confederates do so, and that for every negro soldier taken prisoner and sold into slavery, or treated otherwise than as prisoner of war he will 'send a white Confederate to hard labour. If this war is to become one ...

... could be the t'°T hatever ma 7 he thought of J 'I? 01 l ' ie ...

... the people of the North-West were the back-bone, to speak, of the American Republic. An agricultural community, opposed to slavery, they have but few feelings common with the traders | of the Eastern cities or the ex-cotton growers of the Southern plantations ...

... enlist in the ''armies of liberty. We daresay that for writing this we shall accused of Southern sympathies' and pro-slavery sentiments, and be suspected of crowd of other mental diseases ; but it is simply the truth. The people of the free states ...