... threatened war in America slavery had no part; and asserted that if slavery had been the first object of Southern thought, they would have clang to the Union with the most desperate tenacity. But, some might ask, was not slavery declared to be the coruer-stone ...

... SLAVERY. It woo said we ought ;;t.:have done it because thin was a community of slaveholdera Gentlemen, I trust that our abhorrence of slavery is not in the least abated or diminished. (Loud cheers.) For my own part, I consider it as one of the most horrible ...

... AMERICAN SLAVERY The Rev. Professor Grosvenor, President of the Central College, New York, delivered two lectures on American slavery, in the Free High Church Elgin, on the c venings of Sabbath and Monday last-the subject being the Christian duty of ...

... to meet England it was necessary to be united, and to be united slavery had to be tolerated. Many ilr America had dreltded the destruction of their country more than they had hated slavery. (hear, hear.) The principles of the North were irreconcilable ...

... AMERICA—THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY. In the mass of news brought the last two or three American mails, there are several documents worthy of notice. far the most important President Lincoln's proclamation abolishing slavery in certain states. the terms of ...

... AMERICAN AFFAIRS—SLAVERY. The recent American news seem to indicate that the Confederate cause is not at all a hopeful state. The capture of Fort Sumter and the shelling of Charles town, with, we may say, the certainty of its being speedily reduced to ...

... THE WAR'S EFFECT ON SLAVERY. The following is an ertract from the letter of Federal general officer, dated New Orleans, August 27, I 517.3 : — The Southern people do ant ask for the re•inatitution of sLavet7. They understand that nniody is lett witlin4 ...

... They must take slavery they found it. The hotbed of slavery was not the American Union, but the American Cotton States. Mr Spence had reminded them that slavery was a plant of British origin, but surely that did not prevent them at this day from asserting ...

... to put an end to slavery, then he could understand that their sympathies would with the Federals. We this country, however, had seen sufficient to persuade that they were neither honest nor earnest their profession to put down slavery, but that there were ...

... Republican party, C ,Ff is national and slavery sectional; that the « of the United States was designed for the protemnw rt and not of slaver y' that cou the 1 the gradual abolition of slavery ; and that wield of anti-slavery majority it coidd be so 13 P e aceably ...

... feeling in the North in favour of slavery. Before, therefore, the Federals can with any grace speak of the Southern Confederacy as a nation with slavery as its corner-stone, they must themselves declare for its entire and unconditional abolition in every ...

... So far as the North is concerned, slavery has notbing to do with it. Why did not Mr Beecher say that the slave-feeling was so strong in the Northern States that President Lincoln dare not raise the anti-slavery banner I Why did he not tell his hearers ...