... same time to continue and perpetuate tin. institution of slavery, that the Northern States ought at once to have proclaimed not only their own abhorrence, but the abolition and destructiou of slavery. Distance and want of knowledge of the circumstances of ...

... and the Catholic Association and the Anti-Slavery Society in past times. Right reason, acting through the organism of the State, would have suppressed free trade and maintained the penal laws and negro slavery. The truth seems to be that, though Mr. Arnold ...

... triumphed. They had not attacked Europe. Their army had been peacefully disbanded. The proclamation had not been a dead letter. Slavery had been entirely abolished. There had been no vengeance. Not one person had been put to death for rebellion. America was ...

... principal matters requiring attention were the organisation of the army, the state of the national finances, and the question of slavery in the Portuguese colonies. ...

... of negro emancipSTn The meeting took the form not only of a welcome to Mr. Garrison, but a celebration of the abolition of slavery in Amenca, bly was in many respects as remarkable as the occasion itself Mr. Brignt was in the chair. The imKe Argyll, Earl ...

... of non-interrention in the widest sense of the words; yet here we find them, fresh front con- cludirng a crusade against slavery which cost lives by the hundred thousand and dollars by the hundred million, preparing a second crusade against polygamy. ...

... conviction that slavery was a blot upon their country; and that especially since the war in the United States had altered the whole condition of things there they had no longer the warrant of the Southern States for the maintenance of slavery. All this showed ...

... by the elections to the North German Parliament. The Schleswig Dunes,” says the Dagbladet, would prefer the common lot of slavery until the great day of liberation should dawn.” ...

... forbearance and conciliation. We hold it to be beyond all question that Slavery threatened the preservation of the Unionthat the North fought to preserve the Union, and struck down Slavery as its great enemy; that the people recognised their crime in sanctioning ...

... wears his honours meekly ; but of that small band of men to whom the awakening of the national conscience to the evil of slavery is due, he is, perhaps, the chief. No man now living has known unpopularity for the sake of truth and justice as Mr. Garrison ...

... the extension of slavery, while Douglas, a native of a free state, who had been known for twenty years as the ablest, most indefatigable, and most unscrupulous adversary to emancipation, was attempting to open the flood-gates to slavery, that it might pour ...

... hour sooner than she chooses would we have her come. She treats us not as slaves; and we would not have slavery imposed on her—the worst of slavery, that of being forced to play the hypocrite in her grief. She does her duty as a Queen, leaving us our liberty ...