Refine Search

LITERATURE

... Old Testament distinctly recognises slavery as a Hebrew institution. It is also true that the New Testament speaks of slavery in several passages, and does not condemn it. But before we draw the conclusion that slavery is a divine institution, established ...

LITERATURE

... to nm abolish slavery throughout the Dutch colonies. Onr{ the first day of last J ulythlat great object was effected for, by all act of the Dutch legislature, I duly ratitled by the king, it was decreed that, from 01 that (late, slavery sbould cease on ...

AMERICAN WAR LITERATURE

... other works on the theme we have My Southern Friends (14), by Edmund Kirke, an anti-slavery tale, written with all the animosity of a Northerner of to-day; and The Anti-Slavery Cause in America (15), by Eliza Wigham, a rabid effort to guard our beloved country ...

LITERATURE

... America to raise their.voices against slavery; and you demand, where is now thlsoeirit Wbhih dictated that appeal? You quote the evidence of our press and ourpublic speakers, that the righteous jindignaten against slavery wlich once kindled ?? English hearts ...

SUNDAY IN ST. JAME'S PARK

... Wharf-road, City-road, N., London, Jan. 27. THE REV. A. RALEIGH ON SLAVERY.-The Rev. A. Raleigh, of Hare-court Chapel, Canonbury, preached a special sermon on the subject of slavery on Stit- day evening. The rev. gentleman chose for his text Heb. xiii ...

BOOKS OF THE WEEK

... Memorials of John Mackintosh.' By Norman Macleod, D.D. Popular Edition. (Post 8vo, pp. 483.) Strahan and Co. POLITics.-' The Anti-Slavery Cause in America and its Martyrs.' By Eliza Wigham. (Post 8vo, pp. 168.) A. W. Bennett. EsSAYS.-' Subtle Brains and Lissom ...

LITERATURE

... see that the abolition of slavery through- i out the States was the only safe and effective way of I bringing the war to an end, This volume of speeches is intended to serve as a a contribution to the history of the anti-slavery I struggle in America under ...

I L121RATU. I

... ; and also that slavery would die out under the teachings of experience, and the ad- monitions of public opinion throughout the world. It is true these two anticipations are irreconcileable; for, if a state of society based on slavery-wwhich the Confederacy ...

LITERATURE

... Mr. Edmund White, author of Athelatan, haswritten a '!poetic fragment against slavery, which he has dedicated to the members; friends, and supporterr of the Anti-slavery society. It is a v ehement protest, that will please the friends of emancipation ...

LITERATURE

... Lincoln's Anti-Slavery Proclamation and Message. B~y Washington Wilks. Of- fecs of the REmancipation Society, 65, Fleet-street. Wheat the Sends is Fightin~g Fot (Tracts on Slavery in .Amnerica. No. I.) British and Foreign Anti-Slavery So- ciety. -27, ...

LITERATURE

... wounded and weak 0 to die miserably in the arms of his wife, exchanging 0 mutual penitence and forgiveness. h Frcedom and ,Slavery in the United States. By h BAPTIST WaIOTHESLY NOEL. London: James t Nisbet and Co. f The Rev. Baptist Noel has written this ...

MUSIC

... ed animals and things, of every description, snd the receptacles er for the same. *k THE GEORGEGRISWOLDS CII.tPLAINAND SLAVERY. id -The Rev. Charles Wheeler Dfenison, who came over from New York as chaplain in the George Griswold, in the course of a ...