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 ...

Original Poetry

... n, Leligion, language, reft by tyrant hand Enough for her that slavery's pollution Should not extend itself through freedom's land. Yet bastard patliots cheer'd her rebel ban, And slavery's cause have miscalled liberty; And when the German Duchies took ...

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 ...

WHAT IS LIFE?

... uneven road, A truly vain and empty show; A stormy and tempestuous sea, A scene of sorrow and distress, A state of moral slavery, A bleak and batren wilderness; A loug and dreary winter's day, An ignisfatuus and a suare, A sky without a cheering ray, ...

I-OEI) BKoroHAM AND thk Noktil—Lord Brougham is very anxious, now that the North has succeeded, ti> disavow all ..

... sentiments. In the House of Lords, on Monday, he said the conduct of the United Government had btt'u perfect upon the subject of slavery, and was astonished at the utterly groundless reports which injudicious friends of the Union had propagated of him, if had ...

THE POETRY OF THE LASH

... argument might be' pushed a step far-. ther :-What £iterature has the South, dise- tinctively such, produced 9 In. truth slavery. is fatal to mental effort-in regard to the slave. owner no less than to the slave himself. To conclude, On which side is' ...

THE TRIUMPH OF FREEDOM

... root in the he.arts of the Amierican people-IJ E [On bearing ths bells ring for the Constitutional AMnenei ment abolishing slavery In the Unlitd Itstvrn It i.1 done! Clang of bell end roar of gun Send the tidings up and down. How the belfries rock and reel ...

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 ...

PARLIAMENT, LAST NIGHT

... to the question of slavery, which, according to many, was the cause of the civil war. This House will remember that the beginning of the war President lincoln declared that they had right, by the Constitution, to interfere with slavery. At later perioil ...

Original Poetry

... go down to all time, As one raised up by Providence to save His country from disunion, and to free A people groaning under slavery. Thy work is ended, for the flag doth wave Again on Sumter, and is now the sign That the whole land is sworn to Liberty. Surely ...

THE EMPEROR'S BOOK

... Duke of Sutherland ace knowledgeB the receipt of a £5 note, from-, returned percentage. CELEBRATION OF THE ABOLITION' OR SLAVERY IN' THE UNITED STATES.-On Tuesday evening, a large party- assembled at the Trevelyan Temperance Hotel, Manchester, at the ...

DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION

... that day to return home. My clriend and I were also there to plead for prisoners; believ- ing that the hour had come when slavery had earned the wright to perish by the sword which it had -taken, we came to ,snplore the President 'to be ouw deliverer from ...