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... ; and also that slavery would die out under the teachings of experience, and the ad- monitions of public opinion throughout the world. It is true these two anticipations are irreconcileable; for, if a state of society based on slavery-wwhich the Confederacy ...

PERICLES

... pointtd out that the Athenian conception of democracy, resting on a basis of slavery, was very widely removed from the modern idea, and Mr. Abbott adds the remark that this slavery, besides directly removing industrial prou)lerm)s, indirectly mitigated d ...

LITERATURE

... on the Atlantic shore, and so through Virginia to Washington, where he stopped to write down his judgment upon the painful slavery question. In the next subsequent chap- ters, together with some account of places not previously visited by him in the state ...

ABOLITION of NEGRO APPRENTICESHIP

... called on to perform [hear, hear r]. His tellow-citizens had acted properly in losing no opportu- nity for the abolition of slavery. The legislature had paid 0,000,000 for the emancipation of slavers; bht, from the want of proper arrangements, thie wisliae ...

LITERARY MISCELLANEA

... trace behind ?- The Priest of Barcelona. TnuD Puonomss-The civilization of antiquity was the advancement of the few and the slavery of the * many-in Greece 30,000 freemen and 300,000 slaves- and it passed away. True civilization must not be measured by the ...

LIFE OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN

... now) that Mr. Lincoln was not an anti-slavery man until the war broke out, 11st be ignorant of the fact that his earliest political battles were foughf .itl Mer. Douglas on that very question. He always held that slavery was a crime, that the Legislature ...

LITERATURE

... The institution vwhich appears to have exercised muore of the author's thoughtful consideration than any other is that of slavery. Her deduetions, which are worked out rather fully, and supported by nu- merous mects, are however of a nature to please nei- ...

New Novels

... tendency to rouse exaggerated feeling for the negro, and led men to forget that slavery-in fact, if not in name-exists in all its horrors amongst ourselves. There is the slavery of young women, singers and ballet-dancers, shop-girls, and the lower class of ...

Published: Saturday 24 January 1880
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1606 | Page: 20 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

New Novels

... in writing that Slavery should not exist shall bc liable to two years' imprisonment. Naturally the young Bostonian, Robert lHoldenough, who has come into the still undeveloped State with the avowed purpose of helping to keep slavery out of it, gets into ...

Published: Saturday 02 October 1897
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 977 | Page: 26 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERARY REPORT

... it may comfort the editor under any It criticism which may be levelled against his work, h Slavery Doomed-by F,%EDERICK MILNE EDGE 0 -is an essay on slavery in the United States, with ethe object of showing that the results of free and slave labour must ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... Hammond, against all revilers of Slavery. It will be immediately seen that J. H. Hammond is a pious man. Of his spiritual sprinkling, as Mrs Cole calls it, Slavery has been the precious instrument. American Slavery is to Hammond what precious Mr Squintem ...

PINE AND PALM

... that are now old times- chiefly Vith the struggle for the abolition of negro chattel slavery which had to Precede our own struggle for the abolition of white wage slavery. It is natural NV itsa&d Plm, By gncu(e D. Coi 8Y. Twvola, (London: Chatto and 'W ...