... Foreign Miscellany. Fountain Brown, a citizen of Washington, has been convicted of kidn apping negroes and selling them into slavery, and sentenced to fifteen years' imprisonment at bard labour at Alton, Illinois. As a consequence of the submission of the ...

... show this to be reasonable and logical enough. The people of Missouri know by bitter experience the blighting influence of slavery ; they know that whilst in Illinois, just across the Mississippi, at a point where you may cross in a few minutes, property ...

... attack him on the 2nd inst. The Senate has, by a tarp majority, pass, ell a law amending the constitution, and prohibiting slavery. T[ll3 resolution, however, Las yet, as it is stated, to pass the Howie of Representatives, and the state legislatures. At ...

... nothing heretofore said as to slavery. I repeat the declaration made a year ago, and while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the Emancipation Proclamation. Nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the ...

... J h ad opposed the advocate of war. ludeed,eitt'so far sl,ineobt i s a stauncher and more uncomproffilliu7, ettgLott of slavery than 31'Clellan, we cannot brat Tfjoivertt the former was preferred to the lirit4Z3till the', meaning of Lineolu's reelec ...

... destroy the accursed institution of slavery. (Applause.) When there was almost a howl raised against the peoplo of North Anurica, the working classes came forward and said they would bear starvation so long as slavery with all its hideous consequences could ...

... worst evil that has grown out of the system of slavery is the war carried ou to extinguish it. Caring neither for North or South, but only anxious to see pretension shamed, and, above everything, slavery abolished, we should not deem a still greater slaughter ...

... war against pauperism ; he has proclaimed that one of the first drub • of a free country is to combat the slavery created by misery, sod the slavery created by ignorance ; lie has Taken a contagious ant noble initiative, the consequences of which are i ...

... shorteay to close the straggle was for England to have nothing to do with it. If he could only see thea t er destruction of slavery, he, for one, would rej peace on any terms (Cheers). The South was fighting under great delusion at the present moment. They ...

... that for which it has fought so long and so deliberately, unless great and lamentable concessions be made in the matter of slavery. It is difficult, therefore, as yet, to see the precise nature of the forthcoming contest, or to sympathise with either ...

... land will be fruitful when it is tilled by free hands and open to emigration. Perhaps these armies may be conqnering from slavery a home for the surplus population of England. The fact that the acme of this war is a vast and almost pathless forest (the ...

... dominion: the South still struggle for freedom : and all the indignation which Englishmen feel against the cursed institution of slavery cannot blind them to the real fact of the case. We cannot hope that the North will succeed in their unrighteous purpose, which ...