... Constitution is a simple contract between iude- pendent States ; and to prevent, in the future, all discussion relating to slavery it has been resolved that the Confederate Government shall not pos- sess any power regarding it. The article of the constitution ...

... morally and socially, continues better in the South, as slaves than as free m the North, I cannot advocate the abolition of slavery. About twelve months or so since, a negro woman, having five children, who had at her master's death been given her i own ...

... had the honour i and pleasure to preside, for the purpose of . expressing their abhorrence of the American 4 institution of slavery, their disapprobation of the rebellion of the Southern States of that country, their sympathy with the North in its efforts ...

... the evil is one which demands the conside- ration of the English as well as the French Go- vernment.: We regret to say that slavery in the guano islands of Peru is not a new institution, and that fraud or violence is not now for the first time employed by ...

... souls. The whitepartof the populationinumbered26,975,575, ard the coloured people 4,441,765, of whom 3,953,760 were r held in slavery. the excess in the male population of the t whole of the States was 750,000 over the female, which is one reason why the two ...

... e'xtending from the Orinoco towards the south is de- scribed as well adapted to the cultivation, and prior to the abolition of slavery contained several estates which pro- duced a high class of cotton. Sugar has since taken its place- but there is now a general ...

... dt oflicer O ithe Federal army, addresserl to afriend in this tiCt, Nve take the following, which wve ormniend i our pro-slavery sympathisers - I tell you from experience-the e:iorience iqiired in a march of eight hundred and fifty nil.S in the SouIth-that ...

... estate alone seventy-five were thus carried off. Their treatment is nearly the same as that of the negroes in the time of slavery. They are given , something to eat and drink because they have cost money, b hut they are beaten when they do not work; and ...

... being alive is a hoax. For giving credence to this report hundreds have been slain lately, and hundreds more reducede to slavery. Notwithstanding all this, it is said that the report is still as living as ever, but I am thoroughly convinced it is without ...

... third of that sum had been explended, under judicious in. spection, in encouraging the growth of the ordinary products of slavery by free labour, then it is probable the death-blow to the inhuman traffic would have long ago been given, and our own calamities ...

... and as coming from him, such rash statements, and such an unchristian spirit, were calculated deeply to in- jure the anti-slavery cause. He honoured Brougham for m the noble stand he had, in the close of his speech, made at against the superstitions and ...

... the sympathy of B ritiain ; andi prasssc the 'South for its bravery and dlignity, while deploring usel'' dsuoimed spot of slavery whichi blotso its escutcheon; d hu1t thalt is an1 endless and miost unsatisfactoc'y s-1 isect, and t scar-cely fitted for ...