 That the state of slavery is repugnant to the principles of the British constitution and of the Christian religion, and that it ought to be gradually abolished throughout the British colonies with as much expedition as may be found consistent with a due...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Seite 561824Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Thomas Smart Hughes - 1846 - 636 Seiten
...Buxton, on the fifteenth of May, 1823, after a speech very inflammatory in its tendency, moved, that a state of slavery is repugnant to the principles of the British constitution as well as the christian religion, and ought to be gradually abolished throughout the British colonies.... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1847 - 566 Seiten
...contained in the Parliamentary proceedings of Great Britain. In 1823, Mr. Buxton submitted a resolution, "that the state of slavery is repugnant to the principles...British constitution and of the Christian religion ; and that it ought to be gradually abolished throughout the British colonies, with as much expedition... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1848 - 794 Seiten
...attempt any minute detail of what followed. On the loth of May, Mr. Buxton moved in the Commons, ' That the state of slavery is repugnant to the principles...British constitution, and of the Christian religion ; and that it ought to be gradually abolished throughout the British colonies, with as much expedition... | |
 | Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton - 1848 - 646 Seiten
...place the first debate on the subject of Negro Slavery. Mr. Buxton began it by moving a resolution, " That the 'state of slavery is repugnant to the principles...British Constitution and of the Christian Religion ; and that it ought to be gradually abolished throughout the British Colonies, with as much expedition... | |
 | Robert Hermann Schomburgk - 1848 - 780 Seiten
...House of Commons. Mr. Buxton brought forward a resolution in March 1823, " declaring that slavery was repugnant to the principles of the British constitution and of the Christian religion, and that it ought to be gradually abolished throughout the British dominions." The motion was rejected... | |
 | 1849 - 854 Seiten
...rigours of the system. On the day above mentioned, Buxton began the discussion by moving a resolution, " tM#C 蛯 Ӹ m ? Y ! %> ]W m, 3< . S N. H ?L i K hı s) # Y ~N X I d 0ѣ r ; and that it ought to be gradually abolished throughout the British colonies, with as much expedition... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - 1850 - 230 Seiten
...class. In 1823, Mr. Buxton moved a resolution in the House of Commons, declaring that " slavery was repugnant to the principles of the British constitution and of the Christian religion, and that it ought to be gradually abolished throughout the British dominions." One chief means which... | |
 | George Canning - 1850 - 634 Seiten
...impartial attention, in order that we may not do the most flagrant injustice by aiming at justice itself ? The honourable gentleman begins his resolution with...of the Christian religion." God forbid that he who yentures to object to this statement, should therefore be held to assert a contradiction to it I do... | |
 | 1850 - 682 Seiten
...place in the House of Commons. I The debate was opened by Mr Buxton. The resolution he moved was, " That the state of slavery is repugnant to the principles...British Constitution and of the Christian Religion ; and that it ought to be gradually abolished throughout the British Colonies, with as much expedition... | |
 | William Fox - 1851 - 678 Seiten
...Buxton entered upon this " holy enterprise," this " blessed service." He began by moving a Resolution, " That the state of Slavery is repugnant to the principles...British constitution and of the Christian religion ; and that it ought to be gradually abolished throughout the British colonies, with as much expedition... | |
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