... seems to have been most successful in Georgia, which will produce this year probably more cotton than it ever did under slavery. The condition of the South may be judged of from the fact that though she only produced half the crop 3he used to before ...

... settlements were a standing protest ; Lord Ro- inilly urged the deliverance of women of the humbler classes from virtual slavery ; and Lord Shaftesbury pointed out the magnitude of the evil in manufacturing districts. After a fow words also from Lords ...

... ALABAMA CLAIMS. Mr. Smith has not altogether done with the Alabama claims. In a recent lecture at Cleveland on England and Slavery, he took occasion once again to refer to it. I feel in a position positively to deny (he said) the assertion so in- tolerably ...

... take the precedence of any other that has beon set on foot in our day, more so even than the agitation for the abolition of slavery, and it consequently deserved and demanded the support of every thoughtful mind. The Chairman here interposed a few remarks ...

... fairly be considered provoked by the present attitude and intentions of Spain towards her colony. It is not a question of slavery, of which the aboli- tion has been decided upon at Madrid ; it is not to be explained by a determination on the part of Spain ...

... feeling of indignation among Victorians towards the infamous practice of deporting Poly- nesian islanders and selling them into slavery under the pretence of ' civilising ' them, even before we were made aware of the atrocious cruelty attending the system. The ...

... afterwards filled under Sir Robert Peel. Of his colonial administration there is but one thing to be said— that under hiia slavery was abolished. This was a great and good work to do, and he entered heart and sottl into it ; yet he had s o little to claim ...

... that island, treating it not as a colony, like the relation of Canada to England, but as a Spanish province. He condemned slavery, which, he said, must be gradually abolished, with indemnification to owners. The Porto Rico Deputies spoke in favour of abolition ...

... reproaches may be made against our century, we have certainly many reasons to be proud of it. The new world sup- presses slavery ; Bussia liberates her serfs ; Eng- and does justice no Ireland ; the littoral coun- tries of the Mediterranean seem to be ...

... d con- test between a New England abolitionist and a Louisiana planter, which commenced, as usual, with a dispute on the slavery question, quickly entered upon the pistol-and-bowie-knife stage, which was followed by a band-to-hand combat, and ended in ...

... has already abolished evns — it sees are injurious to its interest? although they have been fed thus ?? vr :: - own vices. Slavery may be abolished. ?? the selfishness and pride in which it re ?? remain behind. Still, while they reuum, have lost their most ...

... contracts void even though the avoidance of the same should be in- jurious to a true believer. 8. Tbat the slave trade and slavery are institutions which should be kept up, pro- vided that the slaves are either heretics or favourers of heretics, or any ...