... arrived, and great uneasiness is felt throughout the union. Happily, however, the banks have thus far remained unshaken. The slavery- question, too, just now excites an intense interest amongst our transatlantic brethren, not only in con- nexion with the ...

... Slavery has receivedjits .death-blow. Commerce and the rights of labour h--vc been dealt with, wisely or not time alonc^can prove. Peace. with Europe has been declared, although it is at least doubtful whether with' republican institutions it canjbe^ ...

... revolution, the circulation of La Presse was 36,000; its present cir- culation is reported to be nearly 80,9001 ABOLITION OF SLAVERY.—-Another decree declares that inasmuch as no French soil can be admitted to be trodden by'a slave, a committee is appointed ...

... that the persecution has ceased._ Sometimes the goods of the Christians are confiscated, their wives and children sold into slavery, and themselves re- duced to perpetual bondage whilst others, seventeen in num- ber, are cast into chains. Those who escope ...

... Beynon paid only 6s. a-week to their men. It is Mr. Lloyd Hall that told the Commissioners that the Welsh was the language of slavery. When we read his evidence, we could not understand his meaning. V\ e now can. Six shillings a-week for able-bodied men 0 ...

... among To tell her, free as air and light The immortal son] should be, And say how stealthy, swift, and sure Are the steps of slavery :— To say how altered is her state, Since those departed days, When on our glorious mountain tops, Beneath the sun's bright ...

... (loud cheering). He believed that the institutions under which we were go- verned would admit of a change. Some years ago slavery was an institution in some parts of the British empire, and was pro- tected by law. It was not so at present,—a change had ...

... Lushing- ton, that the doctrine of the elder Abolitionists, always was, that free labour was cheaper than slave-labour, and that slavery could only be put down by giving every possible oncourage- ment to free labour. To increase protection, however, would be ...

... respond to the call which had been made upon him by the abolitionists to vote for a discriminating duty, in order to put down slavery and the slave trade. Neither could he accede to the proposition of the Government, for it was a devia- tion from the great ...

... 6,000 miles by sea, and near 3,000 by lakes, rivers, and land had preached twenty sermons, de- livered twelve lectures on slavery, peace, temperance, &c., besides a number of speeches at the Sutton Conference and in other places, without the use of any ...

... them, never mind it; men have a prescriptive right to fret about shirt collars. COMPARATIVE INFLUENCES OF SLAVERY AND FREEDOM.—The effect of slavery on the intellectual, moral, and religious con- dition of the free population of the south, is not so obvious ...

... reap the advan- tage of what I then considered great injustice. Our friends of t ac E t ir -mt should see something of the slavery and thral- from which we would deliver them. We would strike.off tu,'P r the chains that bind them abhorrent, as it may appear ...