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... depress the mind of any thoughltful reader. A gloomy tone pervades the early chapters of Mr. Browne's volume, which treats of slavery, the transportation of criminals, the abject wretchedness of the poor, and other equally doleful subjects. There is, perhaps ...

NEW BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS

... instance, the thing called Laus Deo-on hearing the Bells ring on the Passage of the Constitutional Amendment abolishing Slavery, appears to us either a piece of nonsense or blasphemy. But perhaps the very worst prose that ever was conceived has appeared ...

ARMSTRONG MAGNEY

... Fields) were collected. Or rather, we should say, a fragment of a book, for the volume is eked out with half a dozen anti-slavery speeches and Reform papers. The work tells us nothing new about Canada; indeed, the journey is not of recent date, but was ...

LES CONVULSIONNAIRES

... Thus the Esquimaux resembles the white bear, the Mongol resembles the wolf, and the negro resembles the ape-which justifiesS slavery. We have no doubt that these ingenious Southerners would point to the long-necked Arab who digests stone, glass, and nails ...

MILL'S DISSERTATIONS AND DISCUSSIONS

... opinions upon AmericCL We are as glad as he can be that the contest has ended as it has done. We have the same abhorrence of slavery, and this abhorrence would have secured our sympathies for the Northern States. But what we wisll to call attention to in ...

SOCIAL DUTIES

... to eveiy partner in the firm. But we cannot forget that similar pictures have before now been drawn by the advocates of slavery, and similar contrasts made. The planter is a father and his wife a nursing mother to their slaves, and the greatest goodwill ...

THE QUEEN'S DRAWING ROOM

... breakfast which will be held at St. James's-hall, to- morrow morning, in honour of Mr. Garrison, the leader of the American Anti-Slavery party, It is expected that be- - sides Mr. Bright, M.P., the chairman, and the Duke of Argyll, who will move the presentation ...

Literature

... instincts of his genius. He is one of those admirable men I who, by keeping alive the fire of Northern indig-E nation against slavery, have prepared the way for E the great revolution which his country has just ac- i complished, at the cost of so much agony ...

THE DUKE OF ARGYLL ON THE REIGN OF LAW

... the principle of the family that the law is bound to interfere in order to put an end to a new and intole- rable form of slavery, the result of the invention of the steam-engine and the use of rmachinery. Protection in the matters of commerce is a subor- ...

Literature

... between the sexes it is simply appalling. Principles are freely uttered which would justify the permanence of that condition of slavery in which almost all women are still, and in which all women once were, and would certainly justify, after a brief interval ...

LITERATURE

... England. Now assuredly, be says, if it load been lanosen that the north was ighting for emanacipation, and the south for slavery, istre woald noT have been a pro-southern party in England. Week after week, we reiterated the hntb, that has sincebeena ...

LIBER LIBRORUM

... the views which he attacks, may be estimated from his classing together as evils which have fallen these four things, slavery, polygamy, the gladiatorial shows, and feudalism. What can have been the studies of a writer who does not know that feudalism ...