... Assuncion, Councillor Paranhos, this decree has been passed, and the principle of no slavery is to be inserted in the new constitution of the Republic, thereby abolishing slavery for ever. When shall we see also this great principle adopted by Brazil? Why is ...

... had been that, notwithstanding the other _provisions to the contrary, a system of slavery had grown up in South Africa, and at this moment 6000 children were held in slavery by the Boers. On the 12th December, 1852, Dr. Livingstone stated in a dispatch to ...

... nation.. I come now to the last question—that of the abolition of slavery. My intelligence and my heart reject slavery. It is useless to combat it when nobody defends it. But either slavery has been a perversion of human understanding, or it has been necessary ...

... question, but no such fusion took place of the Northern Churches,nor has any reunion been yet effected of the alien anti-slavery and slavery branches. The two General Assemblies now in session in this city are those of the Old School and the New School of the ...

... forbidden to discuss any proposition for the separation of the island from the mother country; restrictions are placed on slavery; private correspondence is declared inviolable, and entire freedom of worship is proclaimed. It also grants the right of voting ...

... Ottoni died last night. In Paraguay the Provisional Government has decreed the basis of a new Constitution. By its provisions slavery is declared to be abolished. The war operations have been delayed, owing to the want of sufficient provisions for the army; ...

... Kaffirs. But on account of the utter failure of our remonstrances with the Trans-vaal Republic as to the organised system of slavery carried on there, it was determined to put an end to this unjust clause. The governor having considered what was the most ...

... (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) MADRID, NOV. 14. Replying to the Porto Rico deputies in the Cortes, Minister Becerra condemned slavery, which he said must be abolished gradually and with indemnification. He would produce next week the projected constitution ...

... had not looked into the question for some years past, but be was under the impression that some time since Brazil kept in slavery a number of persons who had been imported from the coast of Africa, and whom they were under obligations to set free. He believed ...

... published within the extensive dominions of Transvaal, had been suppressed for making revelations as to the prevalence of slavery in that state. Several more small diamonds had been found. The Port Elizabeth prospectors had returned from Tatin, being unable ...

... believed the cause of the Union to be almost necessarily the cause also of slavery, because he supposed that the whole power of the Union was mortgaged to sustaining slavery in the South, while he held that as soon as the Union should be fairly divided ...

... the normal state of things should be re-established, the Government would, in conjunction with the Cuban deputies, suppress slavery by a well-considered measure, and proceed with inexorable severity against all persons engaged in the slave trade. It is ...