... do not think that the Union is in danger, and the Constitutional amendment abolishing slavery may beheld to have abolished it for ever. There is no danger of slavery being revived, and in fact a stafjp of society is growing up in the South which is wholly ...

... necessary to remember this, because the Western States hated slavery for nothing more than that the price they were forced to pay for its retention was the severe financial policy of New England. Slavery is gone, the South has no cause to support restriction ...

... If the Southern States are unconditionally re-admitted, on no other condition than their acquiescing in the abolition of slavery, there the greatest likelihood that the Republicans will be relegated to that subsidiary position which they occupied previous ...

... that the war had little chance of being carried on to a successful termination except on the footing of the abolition of slavery, and that, without this object in view, there was no likelihood whatever of the fierce fratricidal conflict recommending itself ...

... getting up the electors, a class the rising Whigs know but little of. To suppose that nothing short of extermination or slavery, or, at least, 1 forced contracts to labour after the style of Maximilian's decree, can be the result of emancipation is ...

... because his advocates had injured it by their injudicious panegyrics. That, apart from the shocking injustice involved in it, slavery was a most impolitic and thriftless economical system, had been accepted our countrymen as an indisputable axiom. Even those ...

... Government to repair the ravages of a civil war which has desolated vast regions. The Queen also referred to the abolition of slavery— a result of the war, although not its object, and a result which, however brought about, cannot but be acceptable to this ...

... enthusiasm of the first change. Nations which are being led out of Egypt are sure to hanker for time after the fleshpots. The slavery is forgotten when its burdens are no longer felt ; and the first journeys of liberty are invariably through waste and barren ...