[Footnote A: These islands adopted immediate emancipation, Aug 1, 1834.]

On the same day, "Mr. Noble, of Indiana, communicated a resolution from the legislature of that state, respecting the gradual emancipation of slaves within the United States."

I do not know how far I might go, if I was one of the judges of the United States, and those people were to come before me and claim their emancipation, but I am sure I would go as far as I could.

Still, under all these disadvantages, there is strong reason for expecting, that emancipation, when it shall come, will prove a great good.

But in contending for the birthright of freedom, we have learned to feel for the bondage of others, and in the libations we offer to the goddess of liberty, we contemplate an emancipation of the slaves of this country, as honorable to themselves as it will be glorious to us.

To show you the extremes that meet at our treasury,General Sewall, of Maine, a revolutionary officer, eighty-five years oldWilliam Philbrick, a little boy near Boston, not four years oldand a colored woman, who makes her subsistence by selling apples in the streets in this city, lately sent in their respective sums to assist in promoting the emancipation of the "poor slave.

He also made strenuous efforts to effect the immediate emancipation of slaves in the French colonies, and published several essays on the subject.

Upon the same principle Congress is bound, by the doctrine of Mr. Clay's resolution, to prohibit emancipation within the District.

The slaves were not sufficiently enlightened to appreciate the character of the new arrangement; and, as the light in which it appeared to them was rather that of deferring than of securing their emancipation, it made them impatient rather than thankful.

But lest this should not have secured the object sufficiently, it is declared in the same section, "That no capitation or direct tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census;" this was intended to prevent Congress from laying any special tax upon negro slaves, as they might, in this way, so burthen the possessors of them, as to induce a general emancipation.

In March, May, and July, 1862, he made earnest appeals to the Border States to favor compensated emancipation, because he foresaw that military emancipation would become necessary before long.

But, says Mr. Nicholas, is it from the general government we are to fear emancipation?

Gentlemen will recollect what I said in another house, and what other gentlemen have said that advocated emancipation.

He assured us that there was nothing in the local peculiarities of the island, nor in the character of its population, which forbade immediate emancipation in August, 1834.

Philarete, Metropolitan of Moscow, upheld emancipation and condemned its foes; his earnest eloquence carried all.

Virginia had been nurse in turn to all the children of Rudolph Musgrave's parents; and to the end of her life she appeared to regard the emancipation of the South's negroes as an irrelevant vagary of certain "low-down" and probably "ornery" Yankees as an, in short, quite eminently "tacky" proceeding which very certainly in no way affected her vested right to tyrannize over the Musgrave household.

It completed the emancipation of the whole slave population of St. Domingo.

I know that in a variety of particular instances, the legislature, listening to complaints, have admitted their emancipation.

But these people represent a very small portion of the American women, and until the masses demand 'emancipation,' I rather think that matters had better be permitted to remain as they are.

When England, in 1833, proclaimed the emancipation of all slaves in all her colonies, she unconsciously proclaimed her final emancipation from barbarism.

"It is women like Mary Coombe who submit tamely to such indignities," declared the eldest Miss Sinclair, "who have held back the emancipation of women from the beginning of time.

He remarked that he had always desired emancipation, and had prepared himself for it; but that it had proved a greater blessing than he had expected.

William Penn advocated the emancipation of slaves, that they might have every opportunity for improvement.

The constitutional strength of character which had enabled him to perpetrate a terrible deed of evil, was ready as a power to achieve his emancipation, and work in the direction of good.

On this point we quote the testimony of James Scotland, Sen., Esq., an intelligent and aged merchant of St. John's: "In this colony, the evils and troubles attending emancipation have resulted almost entirely from the perseverance of the planters in their old habits of domination.