He didn't believe much in "edication;" but when I asked if he thought the blacks were better off in slavery times, he answered quickly, "I'd rather be a free man, I had."

The slavery question, once supposed to have been settled by the Missouri Compromise, had proved itself incapable of such settlement.

I could remember the appearance of the cotton farms in slavery days; but how changed were things I now saw!

We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation.

The time has come to enter into some details in justification of this proposition, which must have appeared strange at first sight, but the terms of which I have weighed well: if the slavery party had again achieved a victory, the United States would have gone to ruin.

It is the slavery modification of itthe slaveholder's abuse and perversion of the relation, in reducing the servant to a chattelwhich, he believes, is not approved of God.

Other issues might and did complicate the central question, but it was the slavery issue that inflamed men's minds, made Kansas a "battle-ground" between settlers from North and South, and sent John Brown upon his reckless raid.

Slavery Prohibition Declared Unconstitutional.

Slavery robs of both.

There can be no doubt that the reception of Mrs. Beecher Stowe's work and person in England was very galling to many a Southerner, and naturally so; because it conveyed a tacit endorsement of all her assertions as to the horrors of the slavery system.

The opening of the slavery discussions resulted in the Missouri Compromise of 1820, and the irritations of that great topic were allayed for the time.

The House of Representatives in 1819 adopted the Missouri bill with the amendment restricting slavery, but the Senate did not concur; and Alabama was admitted as a Territory without slavery restriction.

Wherever slavery reigns, it is that, and not the climate, that must be arraigned if the whites fold their hands; labor has become there a servile actit is blighted, as it were, in its essence.

She had a slavery husband named Nathan Moseby.

Burlingame at once started on the journey; but Brooks declined to go, on the excuse that his life would not be safe on such a trip through the North. Broadened into national significance by all these attendant circumstances, the Sumner assault became a leading event in the great slavery contest between the South and North.

Ring dancing was largely practiced during the slavery period.

BROWN, JOHN, American slavery abolitionist; settled in Kansas, and resolutely opposed the project of making it a slave state; in the interest of emancipation, with six others, seized on the State armoury at Harper's Ferry in hope of a rising, entrenched himself armed in it, was surrounded, seized, tried, and hanged (1800-1859).

But suppose, sir, that abolitionism is dead, is liberty dead also and slavery triumphant?

There was a lot of those slavery folks 'round the house, and they tell me they didn't work them till they were twenty-one, they put them in the field when they were twenty-two.

This is the "tale" indeed, of a great part of the West India papers, sung to the same hum drum tune ever since the first of August; and so faithfully echoed by our own pro slavery press that many of our estimable fellow citizens have given it up that the great "experiment" has turned out unfavorably, and that the colored population of the West Indies are rapidly sinking from the condition of slaves to that of idle freemen.

But, you may say that our republication of your own representations of slavery proceeds from unkind motives, and serves to stir up the "hatred," and "rage of the people of the free states against the people of the slave states."

At the present time, this culture incurs but one serious risk: the momentary triumph of a party that dreams of a slavery propaganda; it will be saved alone by the progress of liberty.

"Brutal stripes and all the varied kinds of personal indignities, are not the only species of cruelty which slavery licenses.

These form a very numerous class, and the acknowledgment of the Senator proves the immutable principles upon which opposition to slavery rests.

The slavery controversy, 1831-1860.