Report of the Committee of the Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions, Band 2The Society, 1825 |
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Seite 56 - ... of historians and poets awakens in distant bosoms the sparks of kindred excellence. Combine the frequent and familiar perpetration of atrocious deeds with the dearth of great and generous actions, and you have the exact picture of that condition of society which completes the degradation of the species — the frightful contrast of dwarfish virtues and gigantic vices, where every thing good is mean and little, and every thing evil is rank and luxuriant: a dead and sickening uniformity prevails,...
Seite 179 - That this House is anxious for the accomplishment of this purpose, at the earliest period that shall be compatible with the well-being of the slaves themselves, with the safety of the colonies, and with a fair and equitable consideration of the interests of private property.
Seite 120 - December next, he will on that day, between the hours of ten and twelve o'clock in the forenoon, be put up to Public Sale, and sold to the highest and best bidder, at the...
Seite 29 - January, 1865, showed that the total population of the grand-duchy had risen to 1,798,909, or at the rate of one and a half per cent. per annum.
Seite 175 - In all these excursions we were agreeably surprised, not only at the progress of agriculture, but the increase of a free, laborious population, accustomed to toil, and too poor to rely on the assistance of slaves. White and black farmers had every where small separate establishments. Our host, whose father had a revenue of 40,000 piastres...
Seite 101 - An entry of this declaration being duly registered at the Bank, should be declared equivalent to a will in the absence of any other. In conclusion, I have most earnestly to impress upon you the necessity of proceeding to carry these improvements into effect, not only with all possible dispatch, but in the spirit of perfect and cordial co-operation with the efforts of His Majesty's Government. More particularly, you will be attentive to have the necessary laws framed with such precaution and foresight,...
Seite 76 - ... for not less than one month nor more than six months, or to both fine and imprisonment at the discretion of the court, and to forfeiture of license ; one-half the fine to be paid to the informer and the other half to the State.
Seite 69 - Gloucester, in the course of a speech made by him in 1825, said that ' his family had been brought to this country for the protection of the rights and liberties of its subjects, and as a member of that family he should not be discharging his duty towards them if he did not recommend the sacred principles of freedom by every means in his power.
Seite 101 - If you should meet with any serious opposition, you will lose no time in transmitting to me the necessary communication, in order that I may take the EARLIEST opportunity of laying the matter before Parliament, and submitting for their consideration such measures as it may be Jit to adopt in consequence.
Seite 7 - Act, 1854, and all or any of the rules and orders from time to time made and promulgated by the superior courts by and under the authority of the said acts or otherwise, with such modifications as may be necessary to adapt them to the jurisdiction of the...