... Emancipation Act of 1833, and that grant was proposed by Mr. Canning in his remarkable speech on the general question of slavery in 1824, distinctly as recognition of the till then ignored claims of the slaves to spiritual care, and as a measure of relief ...

... d to that of countries freed centuries ago from the same terrible thraldom which at one period held almost all Europe in slavery. The history of our own island shows that the overthrow of James H. was anything but probable at first. In Scotland loyalty ...

... her prosperity, and of the success of the principles of law and freedom tho late war. He also spoke verv strongly against slavery, which had opposed before the war both impolitic and un- Christian. The Siamese Twijvr.-The two brother* who have recently ...

... the priceless blessings of an open Bible, the Protestant faith, and Anglo-Saxon blood, but universal suffrage is a badge of slavery upon the necks all intelligent and virtuous citizens, and the hundreds of thousands of illiterate, ignorant, and depraved ...

... domination and to apply themselves to the development of the undoubted resources of their own country. With the reproach of slavery still unremoved, with the valley of the Amazon unopened, Brazil has work enough at home without needing to cast an anxious ...

... profession of seaman of the gloss placid upon it hired song-writers and subsidized novelists we shall find that it is a condition slavery —almost the hist vestige of that institution in England--that its craftsmen are harshly treated, ill housed, badly doctored ...

... distress and starvation. The negroes are the prominent element in the Southern States,and the whites are paying dearly for the slavery that was maintained there so long after the system had been condemned by the general voice of civilized humanity but, in these ...

... eight years before the Slave Emancipation Act of 18JJ- b/« that proposed Mr. Canning in his speech on the general „u,stion of slavery 1824, recognition of the till then ignored claims of the to si>iritual care, and as a measure of relief for spiritual destitut ...

... better foundation than they have beer: of late years. Much yet remains to be done ere the last traces of the flong reign of slavery in the South can be effaced, but it is to be hoped that the work of ro- construction will at no distant date be carried out ...

... long enough to write another book to correct the mistakes of Uncle Tom, and show that a great blunder was committed when slavery was abolished. From original condi| tion of sentimental attachment to the negro she ha 3 lapsed into state of unconquerable ...

... resolution amid much dis turbance. assured them that he was easy as old shoe, and then went on to dockyard expenditure and slavery. The speaker concluded as follows : —Who does not remember the names Wdberforce aud Clarkson. (Cries of Time, time, and ...

... begin it in their homes, pious teachers in the Sunday Schools, and above all, let the noble women, who are fully aware of the slavery of their sex, band together and determine to throw off these fetters, and influence their sisters to proclaim their independence ...