... manners-is contrastedwith unbounded sumptuousness. The most discordant elements, more- over, lie side by side-black and white-slavery and an unrestricted liberty of private judgment; whilst the political character of the people is marked by a sensitive re ...

... the French and English to the advantage of the States. Filibustering expeditions are unequivocally condemned; the Kansas slavery question is tenderly touched; but the Mormons are to be dealt with after the fashion of traitors. The other points of the ...

... Oregon we learn that the vote on the State consti- tution had resulted in the adoption of that instrument, rejecting the slavery clause and in opposition to allowing free negroes to remain in the State, In Carson Valley and the Gadsen Purchase everything ...

... some such unprincipled adventurer, to be made a slave state, and thus form a footing for the further operations of the pro-slavery. faction. We had the strongest possible case for the assertion of British dignity in a fair and temperate manner in the affairs ...

... of earth or ocean we concentrate our attention, there the presence of the natural enemy of freedom, the natural friend of slavery to its own dominions, and therefore the natural friend to the promotion of mischief between every branch of the human family ...

... black skin and woolly hair-are the great curse of Africa. Without them there would be no slavery. What should we think of a proposition for the correc- tion of slavery that should be based on platitudes con. cerning these physical attributes of the African ...

... Constitu- tion. By telegraph we [Boston 2Trare'ler] learn that a skirmish has taken place between the Free State and Pro- Slavery parties in Kansas. Five killed, and several wounded. The report that General Lane had been shot is not true; he commands the ...

... from Kansas state that at the election on the 21st instant, the Lecompton constitution, with the clause annexed in favour of slavery, was adopted by a large ma- |h jority. We take it for granted that the Free State men in refrained from voting on the question ...

... severe fighting between the Governmeat troops and the pro-slavery party; and preparations for attack and defence were being made on every hand. The clause in the constitution legalising slavery in the State had been carried in conse- quence of the free-soil ...

... under which eight had died ; nearly sixty were bound in chains, of whoas two had died; while a nunrber ?? had been reduced to slavery. The severity of the cersecution rendering comnmunieation froen the sufforers exceedingly perilous, few particulars have its ...

... about the elections in Kansas. On one part, it is said that the vote of the 4th gave a majority against the Constitution with slavery. The vote was about 10,000. Other despatches say: The Republicans have carried the Legislature by 2,000. The Democrats have ...

... towards him had arisen from this state of the public mind. England had been for many years past the mainstay and Isupport of slavery by its consumption of cot- ton grown in America. [Hear, hear.] It was most impor- tant to endeavour to obtain the raw material ...