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... SLAVERY ABOLISHED IN THE UNITED STATES. ratification of the constiturional amendment. (Official Proclamation.) William H. Seward, Secretary of State of the United States, to all whom these presents may come, greeting: Know ye, that whereas the Congress ...
... JOTTINGS OF A RAMBLE IN AMERICA SLAVERY IN MISSOURI. Missoimi is, or rather was, the most northerly of the slaveholding States on the Mississippi. At the perioA of my visit to Missouri, in 1855, public feeling with regard slavery ran high in that State, the ...
... territory lying north of that geographical line slavery ' shall be, and is hereby for ever, prohibited.' As Kansas lay north of that line of latitude, which was then the boundary line between liberty and slavery, the people of the North naturally enough thought ...
... W. Morgan, the latter of whom delivered an interesting speech with reference to his visit, as representative of the Anti-Slavery Society, to Jamaica. Impressions ok En.—Another curious story as to the permanence of impressions on the retina has just come ...
... territory lying north of that geographical line slavery ' shall be, and is hereby for ever, prohibited.' As Kansas lay north of that line of latitude, which was then the boundary line between liberty and slavery, the people of the North naturally enough thought ...
... a conscrt ber Tbe people ofNoth Carolina have ratified almost unanimously the ordinancas of thoir convention prohibiting slavery, and declariag null the secession ordinance. llhe screw steam hip Conaiitution from 3a>varmah on tbe 28du(t., Ifor Saw York ...
... course, decidedly Southern in his feelings ; but, at the same time, he was not blind to the evils of slavery. Indeed, so strongly was convinced of slavery being ruinous to the master as well as the slave, that he told me he intended journeying out to Kansas ...
... result. The New York Herald alone praises the oration heartily. The New York Times is ulent. The Tribune condemns it. The Anti-Slavery Standard condemns it a stump speech, ' wholly out of time and place,' and says that this is the generally expressed opinion ...
... Seward has officially announced that, three-fourths of the States having ratified the Constitutional Amendment abolishing slavery, it is now valid as part of the Federal Constitution. A resolution has been introduced into the House, and referred the Committee ...
... withdrawal the imperial troops and of the freedmen's bureau would be followed by the unrelenting proscription and remission to slavery of tbe negro population. The House of Represents tires has adopted a resolution directing the Committee of Commerce to report ...
... often asserted th at the negro was destined for slavery, it would be expecting too much to hope that they would assist in proving themselves liars. Public opinion in the South is so tainted by pro-slavery proclivities, that it will take a long time to ...
... homicide during the riots. The Freedmen's Bureau inspectors report that the system of contracts enforced by the Bureau is simply slavery in a modified form. Jefferson Davis's health is rapidly failing. His counsel are still endeavouring to obtain his release ...