THE EMPEROR MAXIMILIAN ON BRAZIL

... clergy, and the absence of conscience and of religion in the people. Slavery is the great curse, and cause of demoralization. How can the blessings of home dwell side by side with slavery? How can conscience exist when there are men beyond the pale of law ...

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

... from i. What a fise- piolous pyople I SPCLckL MmEro=R OF TinE ATNT-SLAVERY CON- MRianCE IN PARIS. 27, Actv Broad-strett-1-his ls a most inteyesting and ?? account of the Parit Anti-Slavery Conference of 1867. It is &rawn up by the able and indefatigable ...

A FENIAN ON HIS FRIENDS

... prison's gloom, My native soil was Ireland, The inland of the free, But I oorned to live the Saxon's thrall, In chains and slavery. In proud diedain to be a slave, I emigrated o'er the wave. A citizen of the Unlted States In due time I become, And there ...

A JOURNEY IN BRAZIL

... of the clergy, and the treatment of the Indians are subjects frequently mentioned. Slavery, it is said, is generally talked of as doomed, since the abolition of slavery in the United States; but still it exists, and beyond talk nothing has yet been done ...

AGRICULTURAL HIRING FAIRS

... AGRICULTURAL HRfLINGXFAIR9. Before the overthrow of Slavery in the Southern States, Mrs Stowe And other writers of the same good school shocked all England by their pictures of Virginian slave markets. In such towns as Richmond a lot of niggera would ...

ECHOES FROM THE BLACK COUNTRY

... that name'! Atmrcir My godfatlers and godmothers in my Bap- tism, wherein I was made a member of the Forge, a child of Slavery, and an inheritor of Hobbles, l'addles, and Ball Tongs.1 Qsceiai ': What did your goifatlers and godmothers then do for ...

SLAVE SONGS

... high musical organization of the negro needs no better proof than the fact tat slavery never was able to keep him from singing. This is none the less true because slavery never directly tried to do so, but graciously per- 1itted him to exercise his vocal ...

LES MARIS SONT ESCLAVES

... himself as a thorouzgh1 infidel on the subject of matrimonial felicity. The married man IS a wretched being condemned to slavery of the most unbearable kind; a cashier bound to supply a reckless woman with means for her extravagance; a dog obliged to ...

DUTCH SLAVE-DEALING IN AFRICA

... is one which would justify at least a strong com- munication from our Foreign Office to the Hague. e The Dutch Boers and Slavery in the Trans-Vaal Republic. By F. W. Clessonr (London: AY, Tweedie. S68.) ...

Literature

... things, and believes that Brazil has before her an honourable and powerful career. Both Mr. and Mrs. Agassiz declare that slavery, though it still exists to a certain extent, is de- cidedly on the wane-that it has, in fact, received its deathblow, and ...

POETRY

... With kindling drops of loving-kindness, And knowledge pour, From shore to shore, Light on the eyes of mental blindness. All slavery, warfare, lies and wrongs, All vice and crime might die together; And milk and corn, To each man born Be free as warmth in ...

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

... muoh attached to the family, and never to have thought of leaving them. These axe the tbings which make one hopeful about slavery in Brazil; emancipation is considered there a subject to be discussed, legislated upon, adopted ultiMately, and it seems no ...