Antislavery Crisis Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 9 POLICY OF MINISTERS, REPRINTED FROM THE ECLECTIC REVIEW, FOR APRIL, 1838. WITH A POSTSCRIPT ON THE DEBATE AND DIVISION IN THE HOUSE OF COMM... more »ONS, ON THE 29™ AND 30™ OF MARCH. LONDON:—WILLIAM BALL, PATERNOSTER BOW j W. OLIPHANT, EDINBURGH; C. OALLIB, GLASGOW ; AND FINLAY, NEWCAST.LE-UPON-T.YNE. 1838. Price Fourpence. UNIVERSITY LIBRARY J. Haddou, Castle Street, Fiuabnry. ANTI-SLAVERY CRISIS. 1. Jamaica under the Apprenticeship System. By a Proprietor. London : Andrews, 167, New Bond-street. 1838. 2. A Bill intituled an Act to amend the Act for the Abolition of Slavery in the British Colonies. 3. A Bill intituled an Act for putting an end to the Apprenticeship oj those who were formerly Slaves in the British Colonies. Presented by Lord Brougham and Vaux. HPHE anti-slavery question has again reached a crisis. Every - thing now depends, under God, upon the firmness and consistency with which those who conduct the present great effort maintain their principles and press their claims. All is within their reach. We cannot look abroad over the face of the country, and interrogate the countenances of men, without feeling a deep conviction of the irresistible moral strength of the anti-slavery party. There must, however, be no wavering; no compromise ; no political expediency. Two bills are before the public. The one a cheat, a mockery, an unjust and impracticable measure. The other, a bill, for abolishing the apprenticeship on the 1st of August next. The former, must be rejected; the latter, supported ana carried. We have in former numbers condemned in unequivocal terms the policy of ministers upon the anti-slavery question, and recent events have afforded us no opportunity of changing the tone of our remarks. We are still...« less