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LITERATURE

... of slavery in moulding the opinions of our people, as well as in shaping the destinies of l our country. I Mr. Greeley pursues the only philosophical or rational course in dealing with the history of I slavery as the history of secession. Slavery has ...

LIFE OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN

... now) that Mr. Lincoln was not an anti-slavery man until the war broke out, 11st be ignorant of the fact that his earliest political battles were foughf .itl Mer. Douglas on that very question. He always held that slavery was a crime, that the Legislature ...

NOTES ON THE BRAZILIAN QUESTION

... on the same subjects in i863. The longer and more interesting part of the Notes refers, no doubt, to the question of slavery in Brazil, and the proposed repeal of the ABERDEEN Act. But even in his chapters on these subjects, as also in those on our ...

LITERATURE

... According to this writer there is no such thing as slavery in the Southern States The word is altogether misapplied,and was coined through the exaggeration and onceit of Northern lite-ature But, though slavery does not exist, he admits that there is ...

LITERATURE

... did not qualify his opinion by what his enemies have branded as utilitarian maxims. Beccaria would have had perpetual slavery as the penalty of the greatest crimes, on the ground that it is not the intensity but the continuance of pain which makes ...

SONGS OF THE AMERICAN WAR

... published by Messrs. BoOSEY the first thing that strikes us is the almost entire absence of even allusions to the question of slavery. It is a question which the Southerners on their part cannot afford to regard from a sentimental point of view, and which ...

LITERATURE

... her companion. There is a good deal of dirty work transscted by these two, and the lady is re- duced to a horrble state-of slavery by the comn- panion. All their machinations are, however, foiled by the straightforwvard chivalry of a noble- hearted doctor ...

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS

... Collamer, of Vermont, a man of more than average mind-far above the grade of Andrew Johnsois ; and, though ean opponent to slavery, a fair and just-minded op. ponent, and we shall have hopes of liberal treatment of the south ...

MR. LECKY'S RISE AND INFLUENCE OF RATIONALISM

... Euro~e. By W. E. I-I. Lrci;v, MA.A Two Volumes. (London: Longman and Co.) were the aristocratic influences of the ancient slavery, or the military tendelicies of the feudal era of European civilization. It is clearly confusion to suppose that all influences ...

LITERATURE

... which does great credit to the knowledge and manner of its author, Mr. 'Siddons. The author is in favour of the abolition of slavery.. Werecommend his pages to all who desire to have a fair idea of the history 'of our American cousins. : 'IRICHARD COHDS, ...

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

... prestige which accrues from an apparent identification with the advancing tendencies of the age. As the strong- holds of slavery, and despotism, and persecution have been succes- sively stormed, the remaining forts of Conservatism must fall in a few years ...

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS

... representation of life and manners, and it certainly uis a powerful way of showing the captain's Aversion to the south and to slavery. The chief interest arises from Kate (Miss Daly), daughter of Mr. Vaugban (Mr. West), having just a drop of black blood in ...