... VIOCTOR HUGO ON THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY. Several republican committees in Spain have written to Victor Hugo, thauking bim for the letter recently published, in which he urged the Spanish people to establish a republic in the place of the monarchy wuich ...

... ceremonies and rites which signalise the entrance of the nun upon this kind of life ;• it is slavery, bitter slavery, none the less. It is the worst of all kinds of slavery, because, in the first place, i: enchains the (6i:frier:re as well as the lay—it ...

... Ambassador is know to all. The earnest anti-slavery of Mr. Reverdy Johnson, in which be declared that slavery had no foundation in morals or Christianity, ' that the object of the Southern Confederacy was to protect slavery, and that the vile system died by moans ...

... Is there a man in England, noted for his common sense, who can say one word in defence of such slavery to custom as this? A nether illustration of the slavery of precedent may be seen in the Most Worshipful Tomfoolery enacted in the City by his Lprdship ...

... on the subject of slavery, Mr. Lincoln was chosen President. It was intended that he should keep in cheek the pro-slavery forces, but still that in this he should proceed cautiously. Suddenly, however, the very madness of the slavery States —their foolish ...

... place of the monarchy weich has been overthrown. They, at the same thus, ask him to mist the movement for the abolition of slavery, which is now on foot in Spain. In reply to this appeal, Victor Hugo has addressed a second letter to the Spanish people, ...

... ancient and modern slavery ? was opened by Mr. G. M. Turpin in the affirmative. Ile gave three reasons for so doing: first, the general admission of almost all historians who hid written upon the history of Europe, and of modern slavery; secondly, the fret ...

... March, 1857, and ending in March, 1861, the agitation of the Free-soil question, and the efforts of the pro-slavery party to introduce negro slavery into the Territory of Kansas, and of the Republican party to exclude it, lecrtb a division among the Democrats ...

... ' Adams was an exception to this, and now we have Mr. Johnson, whose speech made against slavery created much noise at the time. He deelaretl in it that 'slavery was founded neither on morals nor on Chri;tianity, and he pronounced against the Southern ...

... imperiously Parliamentary Reform and the immediate suppression of slavery. As soon as the first was obtained the second followed. The measure of the Whig ministers, abolishing slavery, was carried in 1833, and in time the apprenticeship clause, with which ...

... movingly of the misfortunes of slavery, and we, who belong to a race which has always been free, may especially chafe under any degradation or deprivation of right or of freedom to which we may be subjected ; but there is no slavery, even that caused by physical ...

... gratification of the society at the abolition of slavery throughout the Union, and their hope that Mr. Johnson's mission in this country might be in every sense successful. His Excellency, in replying, said, slavery was inconsistent with the happiness of people ...