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THE AMERICAN SENATE.*

... Maryland, and related in every way to slaveholders, gr. Creswell investigated the subject of slavery philosophically, and reached an independent anti-slavery view which he was able to state to the Mary- landers with immense effect, and yet with such excellent ...

THE RESOURCES OF AMERICA.*

... granite, had gradually distanced Maryland, starting with infinitely greater natural resources, but cursed with the system of slavery. And the natural irritation with which a poor man watches his rich partner heaping more riches together was of course increased ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... The impetuous policy of the anti-slavery party destroyed slavery in the British colonies, but also destroyed the British colonies themselves; and thereby caused so much opposition in other countries that the slavery which might otherwise have been got ...

Literature

... March, 1855, lie thus wrote on the subject of slavery There is no doubt that it was a vital question for human progress to draw the tropical lands into the sphere of our civilisation, and to this end slavery seems to have been 1 necessary. There are, however ...

WILBERFORCE AND HIS FRIENDS.*

... virtues will be forgotten for want of honourable boasting-that it roused English society to the grievous wrongs of negro slavery. No one action of the English Parliament is more creditable to us as a nation than the abolition of that crying evil, however ...

MR. BUCHANAN'S ADMINISTRATION.*

... anti- *The Admninistration on the Eve of the Rebellion. By James Buchanan. (London Sampson Low, Son, and MJarstom, 1863.) slavery agitation, and the South for acts of retaliation; the abolitionists were the original cause of the evil. But Ifehnks that ...

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

... 1 With the greatest composare, aid when asked what re-., e-wks he-had to make, replied- Gentlemen, make an the of slavery, or slavery wil make n end of eu.; The daughter of the Governor of Virginia begged for~ his life( 'pnher knees, but mercy with ...

Litterature

... disintegration are eliminated. Whilst slavery existed, and the doctrine of the sovereign righta of the several States was insisted upon, there was no security for the integrity of the great Republic. Now that slavery is abolished, and the power of the States ...

Literature

... between freedom and slavery. But Or it was sosietbi tg deeper than this. It was a struggle be- tween Christianity and all that is most hostile to Christia- th nity. Christianityv had founded a great community ina the new world. Slavery cameu uip ag~ainst ...

LITERATURE

... will find ample details in Mr. Crookes report. BOOKS, &aC., RECEIVED. HEnts for Whom they may Concern.-No. 1. England's Free Slavery. Dedicated to Government.,' The Fisancial Reformer for September. Birchin-lane Book-keeping: or the New Knack of Mud- dling ...

OUR CARPET BAG

... TASTE.-A Negro has formally petitioned the Probate Court of Tallahatchie County, Alabatsa, to be allowed to sell himself into slavery. He is twenty-two years old, a good field hand, and, he believes, worth a thousand dollars. He says there are too many re ...

Published: Sunday 14 October 1866
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1666 | Page: 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture