... when the experiment was tried under 'the most favourable circum- stances, what can we expect in the Southern States, where slavery is likely to be breken up amidst all the horrors of the most ferocious civil war of modern times carried on, according to ...

... have winkied at human slavery, and on the other we have ignored ou own resources. We have been satisfied with receiving sevena per cent. of our cotton froin British territory, and have left the remainder to the toiling power. Of slavery and the dragooning ...

... be imported, under the specious name of appren- tices, and with a promise of freedom at the end of 15 years. This is only slavery under another name, Ba for 15 years on a Louisiana plantation will finish val most of the emigrants ; and who is to assert ...

... was subsequently abandoned in its extremity. Had Texas been constituted an independent State, free from the blight of negro slavery, that would alone have put stop to the scheme of monopoly, devised and at length effected by the cotton planters of the United ...

... slave trade. In the north, where fa ser -slaves and slavery are unknown, the slave trade is pC detested on. the same grounds on which it is detested at ain this country, whilst in the south, where slavery lo' and the internal slave trade are sufficiently ...

... particularly in pursuance of A this principle, that no Colony yet remaining in the m possession of Great Britain,wherein Slavery exists, di should be ceded to any other power, Without requir- of ti g an express stipulation for relinquishing the Slave ...

... compensated for it by that great national boon s the penny postage, and it should also be remembered n that the interest on the slavery abolition grant, and the n disturbances in Canada and in the East have been great drags upon the revenue, which have hitherto ...

... recent civil war, had the good so nse to leave the planters in possession of the'- estates, at the same time that they ?? slavery amongst the negro popu- lation. In counnrios so extensive as Russia and the United kStateo, it has been a matter of urgent ...

... question, and its beariig- on tho poermanent policy of the ],ritish (los ernrment; on the two ?? n- fortunalo and uruaecessal-y slavery circu- larsP onl the illii ioins of this countr v to tho Ul i'cl Snatcs with reference to tho civil wr iu CubIja , indepeollndent ...

... alleged that the whole human family has passed through slavery as one of the stages of development from the lowest state of bestiality-anu- nibalism, stone, bronzej iron ages, Idolatryand slavery, it is said, are portions of the ascending education of ...

... utpply of labourers without the expense of rearing tile Loung, which formed a very large item in the expense our colonial slavery, so long as it continued. There tould not be a better time for introducing the cultiva- .ion of cotton into Jamaica than the ...

... the com pletion of the wa*r we thought the company strong enough to ti proclaim the abolition of the legal status of in sla~very. The measure will have, far-reaching L consequences, but I see no reason to fiear anycf violent didiction of social irelations ...