... ,VI pgement to protect domestic slavery, so fa not to make it • question in any plan of pacification and restoration of the Union. The policy of the Lincoln party, on the other hand, pointed to a restoration of the Union as • primary object, but regarded ...

... with whom I ever spoke on the subject of slavery seemed confideat that the true prosperity of Africa would only commence with the cessation of slavery. And then all say it would be far better for them if slavery were put down altogether than allowed to ...

... said was to v Beward's rateswat that, if prof was retard bow, there would be so war waged by the up°. slavery. Mow. then, could this be an anti-slavery wart in all that Mr Cameron bad said he had not touched opus that pilot. Mr exempt. stated that he supposed ...

... Let vs Lave no more of the old talk about this not being a war to put down slavery. (Hear, bear.) Everybody now admit& that, whatever the issue of this struggle may be, slavery will be abolished by it—the slaves will be emancipated. (Loud cheers ) With ...

... reported adversely to Suniner's menden/et to the Constitution abolishing slavery, but reported favourably on the resolution declaring that Congress shall have power to legislate that slavery shall not exist within the United States. New Yea, Feb. 12, Evening ...

... must ever be determined by tho Synod. Happily, I do not need to argue the question of slavery or the slave trade in this Church, which has so often described slavery as an unholy thing, as a heinous sin, and which, in the preamble to the deaeration that ...

... pictures of what they are suffering. If I were a Northern man, and as ardent as some of the men of the North , to abolish slavery, sad I am anxious to see it abolished, because it is not for the interest of the South to continue it—but I say that if I ...

... States was not a pro-slavery constitution. The men who took the lead in framing it unquestionably looked forward to the gradual abolition of slavery under it ; and it was remarkable that it was so framed that the total extinction of slavery from the United ...

... The struggle began for the maintenance of slavery by the South, and for the maintenance of the Union by the North. It has become • continuous struggle on the part of the South for the maintenance of slavery, and as regards the North, for the reconquest ...

... of the South used every art to perpetuate in their minds. That the pposents of slavery in England should desire the restoration of the Union with slavery, and with slavery strengthened, as they expected it would be, by new concussions, was what you could ...

... . The dominance of the Democratic party means union on the basis of slavery, or separation with a Fugitive Slave Law. The ascendancy of the Republican party means union with slavery abolished or circumscribed ; and when driven to face the question of ...

... hands the power of dealing with its own institutions, does any man suppose that the exhausted and selfish and otherwise pro-slavery North would insist on reopening the war for the sake of the slave population ? The answer to this question discloses the danger ...