... by the constitution to maintain slavery to the end of time. Now the crisis has come when the Union is broken up by slavery itself, and the constitution is defied by slaveholders. We have perfect right to abolish slavery in the land, and now is the time ...

... magnify the existing, as compared ■with the alternative, evil; but the non-sufferers fall ust 3lte error. We arc used to slavery. know that the world gets on in spite of it. We .(Z \»i * 'e. perhaps, no worse than viirwl™ . liu V classof terrors which ...

... present formidable rebellion against the general government manifestly finds its root and nourishment in the system of chattel slavery at the South ; as the leading conspirators are slaveholders, who constitute an oligarchy avowedly hostile to all free institutions ...

... on has now rendered that impossible. Perhaps, even with slavery eliminated from the constitution, it would be difficult to create unity of interest in the various States; but so long as slavery exists, the thing is an impossibility. If the slave is to ...

... wide cosmopolitan experience.— Blackwood's Magazine fcrr October. Mormonism and Slavery.—The United States declared war against Mormonism two years ago, as it did against slavery this year, but with like ill-success. The expedition came to nothing, and therefore ...

... sentiments upon slavery— are more fitted for fiction than for politics. Let us test this oracular deliverance. possible to condense into a sentence the sentiments this critic affects to scorn? It is possible. Mrs Stowe esteems slavery wrong and I abolition ...

... would not fight directly to put down slavery; but it equally true that many in arms for the same patriotic purpose have not the slightest intention of fighting directly or indirectly for the upholding of slavery as national concern. The time has come ...

... there was a common belief throughout ' c land, north and south, that slavery is wrong. The tellect of the nation was aroused and enlightened, and conscience touched. All agreed that slavery ought some way to be brought to an end. With the injntion of the ...

... should carry out the plan indicated by the proclamation of General Fremont ? THE WAR AND SLAVERY. All these questions involve the relation between the war and slavery; and upon this, opinion has not yet reached a definite form. For this reason the Federal ...

... must say also that lam not surprised at their conduct. If they believe, as they loudly proclaim that they do believe, that slavery is not an evil which is to be tolerated only and brought to an end soon as possible, but a divine institution for the benefit ...

... observed that it speaks only of bringing hack the Seceded States to « their original position in the Union. The abolition of slavery, therefore, is not all implicated in the conflict now going forward Wheatland, near Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Sept. 28. ...

... Patrick Henry opposed the ratification on the ground that it gave Congress the power, under certain circumstances, to abolish slavery. He said,— One of the great objects of Government is the national defence. The Constitution gives power to the General Government ...