Poetry

... to the hungry, while thy hsnds undo The yoke, and give th' oppressed their due: This Is God's fast. To loose the bands of slavery and wrong By tyrants east To bring Iato thine house the outeast throng, And tune t'be widow's sorrowing heart to song: This ...

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 ...

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS, &c

... not join the early closing movement, but keep their shops open on Saturday night till twelve 'clock. Thi8 self-inflicted slavery is no gain to the mastere aad a terrible punishment to the assistants ; and our corres- )pondent Is sure that If a deputation ...

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 ...

LITERATURE

... South, if it had been made distinctly apparent to the E'igsish mind that the contest was really onde beto ai' nti freedom and slaver-y, I hesitate net to say that iat w.ofld Isve been imposs~ble for Engliehanen in jener.,J to have sympa~vtlised with the C ...

AMUSEMENTS FOR THE WEEK

... Vea4 geance, Thie Twin BrotheH,1 ' Cato the Slave, oi'tbe Dogs of the Planltations, Isola. or the Bl~ind iGirl;' aud Slaver-y. -The farewell bueneit ,,of M;iisnry; Smith is fixed for Thursday.. 'I i ,; ',rST. JAMES'S HALL. It is wniratood that the ...

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 ...

MRS. MACREADY'S DRAMATIC RECITALS

... herself, entitled Will the New Year come to-night 1 a couple of scenes from the Honeymoon, ' The Polish Boy's Release from Slavery,' a burlesque on the fate of old bachelors, entitled Auction Extraordinary, and the somewhat lengthy poem, Jessie Brown ...