American cotton, market for, 32, 56.
American delegates to the Evange-
lical Alliance, 185.
American ecclesiastical bodies, their
action, 156.
American negroes, 78.
American politicians, their move-
ments, 42.

American slavery, addresses on, to

the Evangelical Alliance, 51;
to Free Church of Scotland, 98;
defeating Asiatic missions, 138;
and Evangelical Alliance, 146;
and Free Church of Scotland, 108;
illustrated, 155, 194;
meetings on, in America, 200;
in Finsbury Chapel, 95;
overtures on, 187.

Americans in the Dominican service,
47.

Annexation of Texas, 25, 29, 30, 77.
Annual meeting of the British and
Foreign Anti-Slavery Society,
72, 90.
Anti-slavery bazaar, 58, 73, 132,
143, 162.

emigration to, 78;

leasing estate in, 207.

74, 77, 88, 111, 168, 188, 207.
Colonial produce, trade in, 44.
Colonization and the slave-trade, 30.
Coloured churches, admission of, 194.

Bey of Tunis, 200.

Bible argument against slavery, 7,
38, 54, 70, 140, 158, 176, 196.
Biography-

Clarkson, Thomas, 172, 189;
Knibb, Rev. W., 26;
Torrey, Rev. C. T., 106.
Birmingham, meeting at, 125.
Blood-hounds, 76.

Blyth, Rev. G., letter from (Ja.
maica), 202.

Bourbon, disturbances at, 79.
Brazilian government and the slave-
trade treaty, 12.
Brazilians charged with piracy, 28.
British emancipated colonies, report
on, 134.

British exports, 16.
British Guiana, Coolies in, 45, 62;
crops in, 78;

flogging ordinance, 45, 62;
legislation in, 36, 73;
Madeirans in, 62, 78;

Consumption of sugar, 16.
Conviction of slave-dealers, 80.
Coolie immigration, 199; its im-
moral tendency, 37.

Danish Abolitionists, 200.
Death of Torrey, 89, 144.

Death of the liberator, a poem, 74.
Decision in the case of a fugitive
slave, 204.

Demerara, Madeirans, in, 62, 207.
Deputation to Mr. Secretary Glad-
stone, 40.

Destruction of slave-vessels, 80.
Dexter, Benj. B., letter from, 202.
D'Israeli, B., M.P., speech on the
sugar duties, 131.
Dispensaries in Jamaica, 61.
Disturbances at Bourbon, 79.
Dominica, arrival of fugitive slaves
at, 168;

exports and imports, 45, 62;
general intelligence from, 15.
Douglass, Frederick, extract of a
letter from, 32;

speeches of, at public meetings,
93, 95.

Duncan, John, account of Mr., the
American traveller, 16.

E.

Ecclesiastical bodies in America,
their action, 156.
Education in Virginia, 14.
Egypt, slavery in, 48.
Ellenborough, Lord, protest of,
against the sugar duties, 151.
Emancipadoes in Jamaica, 29.
Emancipation of eight slaves in New
Orleans, 152.
Emancipation in Texas, 80.
Emigration of Coolies-
to Berbice, 78;

to Mauritius, 5.

Escape of slaves from the French
colonies, 20, 112, 168, 208.
Evangelical Alliance-

addresses to, on American slavery,

51, 191;

American delegates to, 185;
and American slavery, 146;
leading articles on, 58, 73, 142,
161, 179, 180, 198;
letters from, 53, 192;
proceedings of, 145, 165, 183, 201.
Evils of absenteeism in Jamaica, 168.
Expenditure of Arno's Vale Estate,
21.

Expedition to the Niger, 77.
Exports from Jamaica, 29.
Extracts from La Réforme, 25.

RHODES

Jamaica-

J.

arrival of Emancipados in, 29;
Coolies in, 29, 44, 61, 77;
crops in, 44;

cultivation of cotton in, 61, 77;
dispensaries in, 61;

evils of absenteeism in, 168;
exports from, 29;

House of Assembly of, 29;
immigration into, 24, 77;
import duties, 188;

liberated Africans in, 45;
management of estates in, 188;
manufacture of sugar in, 78;
railways in, 14;

rate of wages in, 188;
savings banks in, 29;
scarcity of work in, 29;
sugar manufactory in, 29;
unwillingness to work in, 168.
James, Rev. John Angell, opinion
of slavery, 186.
Joy of liberty, 15.

K.

Kentucky gag law, 63;
legislation in, 46.
Keppel, George, reply to memorial

on the part of Lord John
Russell, 172.

Ketley, Rev. Jos., accident to, 62.
Kidnapping, 206.

King, Rev. A., letter of, 184.
Knibb, Rev. W., biography of, 26.
Kubrairiewich's work on Austrian
Poland, 74.

L.

Labour at the Cape of Good Hope,

78.

Leading articles on-

abolition of slavery in Tunis, 40;
American Anti-slavery Societies,
105;

American cotton, 56;
American politicians, their move-
ments, 42;

American slavery, 200;
annexation of Texas, 25;
annual meeting of the British and
Foreign Anti-slavery Society,
72;

anti-slavery bazaar, 58, 73, 143;
anti-slavery cause, 8;
anti-slavery sentiment in France
and Holland, 180;
Anti-slavery League, 162, 180;
ANTI-SLAVERY REPORTER, 8;
Bey of Tunis, 200;

Brazilian slave-trade, 10;
British Guiana legislation, 73;
Brock, Rev. W., 161;

slave-trade papers, 26;
slave-trade returns, 143;

Dr. Smyth's retraction of charges
brought by him against Frederick
Douglass, 143;
Sugar duties, 41, 58, 88, 104, 122,
142;

suppression of the slave-trade, 178;
Torrey, Rev. C. T., 73, 89;
West Indies, general intelligence
from, 180;
Legislation in British Guiana-
Memorial to Right Hon. W. E.
Gladstone, M.P., on, 67;
extract from a memorial to Lord
Stanley, on, 36.

in Trinidad, extracts from a me-
morial to Lord Stanley, on, 35.
Legislation in Kentucky, 46;
Letters from-

Alexander, G. W., 5, 186;
American Anti-slavery Society,

191;

Blyth, Rev. G., 202;
Brock, Rev. W., 166;
Clark, Rev. John, 202;
Clark, Rev. M. M., 186;
Dexter, B. B., 202;
Eaton, Joseph, 5;
Evangelical Alliance, 53, 192;
Félice, Professor, 76;

French Anti-slavery Society, 54;
Gurney, J. J., 5;

Keppel, George, 172;

l'helps, Rev. A. A., 29, 75;

Reade, Sir T., 39;

Rhoads, Samuel, 46, 76;

land, 63.
Memorials-

to Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone,
M.P. on West India legislation,
34;

to the same, on the immoral tend-
ency of Coolie immigration, 37;
to the same,
on legislation in
British Guiana, 67,

to Lord Stanley, on legislation in
Trinidad, 35.

to the same, on legislation in
British Guiana, 36.

to Lord John Russell, on the sup-
pression of the slave-trade, 169;
Mendi mission, 22.

Methodist Church in the United
States, its position, 194.

Mines in Cuba, 47.

M'Lean, Captain, narrative of the

Susan King, 68, 208.

Missionary Conventions in the United
States, 30.

Missouri, free basis of, 63.

Missouri, the slave shackles found in
the, 32.

Murder of negroes, 80, 108.
Muscat, slavery and the slave-trade
in, 3.

N.

Negro dogs in Alabama, 63.
Negroes in America. 78.

Negroes murdered, 80, 108.
Negroes of the Creole, 16.

New Niger expedition, 77.
Norwich, meeting at, 69.

cultivation of sugar, 24;
cultivation of sugar and cotton in
India, 9;

death of Torrey, 89;
deputation to Mr. Secretary Glad-
stone, 40;

Evangelical Alliance, 58, 73, 142,
161, 179, 180, 198;
extracts from La Reforme, 25;
Free Church of Scotland, 105;
free-labour cotton, 43, 57;
foreign intelligence, 88, 143;
Governor of Antigua, 10;
immigration into Jamaica, 24;
immigration into the British co-
lonies, 57, 88, 123;
importation of sugar, 42;
incompetency of an armed force,
162;

Irish Presbyterians, 143;

legislation in the West Indies, 25,

40;

203,

206.
Licentiousness of slavery, 80.
Literary notices-
Emancipation, immediate et com-
plete, des Esclaves.-Appel aux
Abolitionistes. Par G. de Félice,
106;

Essai sur le Gouvernement paternel
de l'Autriche. Par Michel Ku-

brairewich, 74;
Situation des Esclaves dans les
Colonies Françaises, -Urgence
de leur Emancipation. Par M.
J. B. Rouvellat de Cussac, 11.
Loss of the Lucy Walker, 162.
Louisiana-

revolt of slaves in, 63;
slave beaten to death in, 64;
sugar crop in, 15, 64;
sugar estates in, 31;
Lynching in Florida, 46.

Madeirans-

M.

in British Guiana, 62, 78;
in St. Vincent, 62, 168;
in Trinidad, 207.
Mahommedan and Turkish slavery,
195.

Malay slave-trade, 20.

manufacture of articles from free- Management of estates in Jamaica,

against immigration into the British
colonies, 124;

of the French Anti-slavery Society,
for the abolition of slavery in
the French Colonies, 103.
Phelps, Rev. A. A., extract of
letters from, 29, 75.
Philadelphia Liberty Bazaar, 58, 73,
132, 143, 162.

Piracy, Brazilians charged with, 28.
Poetry-

The crowning crime of Christen-
dom, 58;

Death the liberator, 74:

The flight of the slave, 200;
Loss of the Lucy Walker, 162;
Ode on the death of Thomas
Clarkson, 180;

Ode on the death of Rev. C. T.
Torrey, 144;

The slave-ship, 43;

The slave-trade, 12, 17;
Texas! the voice of New England,

12, 17.

West Indies. 21.

Profits of the slave-trade, 32.

Russell, the Right Hon. Lord John, |
M.P., addresses to, on immi-
gration to the British colonies,
123;

on the sugar duties, 121;
memorial to, on the suppression of
the slave-trade, 169;
speech of, on the sugar duties, 127.
Russians and Circassians, 32.

S.

Saffron Walden, meeting at, 61.

Progress of abolition principles in Sale of slaves in America, 152.

the United States, 15.
Prohibition of slave-trading in Ala-
bama, 63.

Prospects of slave-trading in the

United States, 15.
Protests against the sugar duties---
of Lord Ashburton, 152;

of Lord Bexley. 151;

of the British and Foreign Anti-

slavery Society, 113, 122;

of Lord Brougham, 151;
of Lord Ellenborough, 151;
of Lord Stanhope, 151.

Purchase of land for manumitted
slaves, 47.

Railways-

R.

in Barbadoes, 15;

in Jamaica, 15.

Randolph's slaves, 46, 205.

Rank of a slave, 15.

Reade, Sir T., letter from on the

abolition of slavery in Tunis,
39.

Reasons for withdrawing from our
trading connection with slave-
holders. Plan suggested for so

doing, 49.
Reed, Rev. A., withdrawal of from
the Evangelical Alliance, 184.
Reformed Presbyterians, 198.
Report of the British and Foreign
Anti-slavery Society, 81, 88.
Report of Mr. Jas. Richardson on
the slave-trade of the Great
Desert, 133, 154, 180.
Rescue of a re-captured fugitive, 15.
Resolutions of the Committee of the
Society on the death of the Rev.
C. T. Torrey, 107.

on the death of Thomas Clarkson,
191;

Retrospect of the Anti-slavery cause,

1.

Revolt of slaves in Louisiana, 63.
Rhoads, Samuel, letters from, 46, 76.
Richardson, James, arrival of at
Tripoli, 89.

letter from, 111;

report of, on the slave-trade of the
Great Desert, 133, 154, 181;
leading article referring to his
labours in the Great Desert,
180;

Sandon, Lord, speech of on the sugar
duties, 129.

Scarcity of food in Surinam, 47.
Scarcity of work in Jamaica, 29.

Slave-

beaten to death in Louisiana, 64;
dealers convicted, 45, 80;
dealing in Alabama, 63;
markets, 69, 138;
shackles, 32.
Slave-holders—

Christian fellowship with, 51, 52,
53;

and the Free Church, 77;
meeting of, in Maryland, 63;
trading connection with, 49, 50.
Slave-trade-

profits, 21;

from beet root, 16;

general consumption of, 16;
manufactory in Jamaica, 29.
Sugar duties

address to Lord J. Russell on, 121;
answer of Joseph Sturge to Mr.
Porter's letter, on the, 124;
debates on, 125, 146;
leading articles on, 41, 58, 88,
104, 122, 142;

paragraphs on, 77, 100;

protests against, 113, 151, 152.
Suppression of the slave-trade; me.
morial on, 169.

Surinam, Dutch commission for the
purpose of inquiring into the
state of slavery in, 30 ;
scarcity of food in, 47.

T.

Tappan, Lewis, letters from, 46, 201.
Taxation of British Guiana, 78.
Testimony to the advantages derived
from emancipation, 29.

Texas-

annexation of, 29, 30, 77;
emancipation in, 80;

legislature of, 79;

news from, 79;

slavery in, 47.

Torrey, Rev. C. T., fate of, 22;
apprehended death of, 69;

leader on, 73;
sympathy for, 89;

biography of, 106.

in the French colonies, 9, 11, 20, Trade in colonial and tropical pro-

53, 70, 108, 120;

in Mississippi, 207;

in Muscat, 3, 9;

in the Portuguese colonies, 63;
in Texas, 47.

illustrated, 102, 118, 155, 187,

194;

contrasted with freedom, 14, 59;
licentiousness of, 80.

Slaves-

duce, 44.

Traffic in human affection, 70.
Trinidad-

Coolies in, 62, 78, 137, 163, 192;
fires in, 62;

legislature of, 35;

liberated Africans in, 47;

Madeirans in, 207;

popular representation of, 78.
Tunis, abolition of slavery in, 31, 38.

emancipated in New Orleans, 152; | Turkey, serfdom in, 79;

in Virginia, 80;

marriage among, 53.

Smyth, Dr., reference to, 143;
Snodgrass, Dr., threatened prosecu-

tion of, 46.

Songs of the female slaves, en route
over the Great Desert, 196.
Southern ministers, 207.

letter of, on Turkish slavery, 125. Spanish slave-trade, 65.

Right of petition, 30.

Right of search, 31, 48.

Stanhope, Lord, protest of, against
the sugar duties, 151.

slavery in, 205.

United States-

annexation of Texas, 29, 30, 77;
Baltimore civilization, 15;
colonization and the slave-trade,
30;

cultivation of cotton in Pennsyl-
vania, 46;

decision in the case of a fugitive
slave, 204;

freedom bequeathed to slaves, 15;
fugitives in New Hampshire, 207;
government officers, 78;
gag law in Kentucky, 63;
heathenism at home, 15;
joy of liberty, 15;
kidnapping, 206;

legislation in Kentucky, 46;
liberty of British subjects invaded,
68;

liberty party, 206;
Louisiana sugar, 15;
Lynching in Florida, 46;

meeting of slave-holders in Mary-
land, 63;

missionary conventions, 30;
negro dogs in Alabama, 63;
negroes arrested, 16;
no slavery in Oregon, 207;
petitions for freedom, 206;
position of the Methodist Church,
194;

progress of abolition principles, 15;
prohibition of slave-trading in Ala-
bama, 63;

prospects of trade, 16;

purchase of land for manumitted
slaves, 47;

rank of a slave, 15;

revolt of slaves in Louisiana, 63;
right of petition, 30;
runaway slaves, 207;

slavery in Mississippi, 207;
in Texas, 47;

proceedings against Dr. Snodgrass,
46;

southern ministers, 207;

speaker of the House of Repre-
sentatives, 30;

war against the press, 30;

War in Circassia, 47;

in Gallicia, 64, 79.
Weld, Theodore D., notice of, 7.
West Indies, general intelligence
from, 33, 51, 180;

profits of sugar cultivation in, 21.
Whittier, John G., letter from, 164.
Wilson, Maria, case of, and her nine
children, 206.

Withdrawal from our trading con-
nection with slave-holders and
reasons for so doing, 49.
Woodbridge, meeting at, 61.
Worthington, Nicholas, emancipation
of 100 slaves by his will, 30.

RETROSPECT OF THE ANTI-SLAVERY CAUSE. It is impossible to recur to the history of the anti-slavery cause, during the last few years, without being deeply grateful for the important triumphs which, under the divine blessing, it has achieved.

In the early part of the year 1831, it is probable that not a single leading abolitionist anticipated the overthrow of slavery in the colonial or territorial possessions of this country, during the lifetime of the existing generation of slaves; and that they would have hailed with satisfaction a measure which secured to the children of such slaves the blessings of freedom on their attaining the age of twenty-one years. At that time, the colonists, confiding in their strength and political importance, were in full opposition to the British legislature and the government, in relation to the regulations for the mitigation of the system of slavery, which had been voted by the legislature, and had received the sanction of the King, as far back as 1823; and then,ftoo, the government were indisposed to punish their contumacy, or to secure, by an appeal to the Imperial Parliament, what they had failed to obtain by concession and conciliation. Nor were the abolitionists themselves either bold or pressing in their demands; they asked simply for the amelioration of the condition of the slave population, and the gradual extinction of slavery. But in that memorable year, one portion of the body advanced the great doctrine of immediate and entire abolition, and with a decision which nothing could alter, a courage which faced all difficulties, and a zeal which knew no intermission, they sent forth their agents through the length and breadth of the land; and in a period of time which scarcely sufficed for a thorough organization, they carried the question with the public. It was universally felt, that "SLAVERY WAS A CRIME BEFORE GOD," which admitted of no delay in its extinction; and that freedom should be given to the slave, without stint or restriction. Having thus convinced the public mind, and secured the public conscience, there was but little difficulty in moving the constituencies throughout the kingdom, to exact from their representatives the advocacy of sound opinions in the House of Commons. The result was, the return of a large body of members to Parliament pledged to sustain the abolition cause. Events, in the meanwhile, had transpired in the colonies, of such a character as to arrest the attention of the government, and to compel them to action. In May, 1833, Mr., now Lord Stanley, submitted to the House of Commons his celebrated scheme of abolition, which, after undergoing a lengthened discussion, and various important modifications, went into effect on the 1st of August, 1834. It admitted the justice and expediency of abolition, but placed the whole of the slave population, above six years of age, under a system of coercion for a period of six years. It created an intermediate state of bondage, falsely called "apprenticeship," which allowed the existence of the worst features of the system of slavery, without the corresponding advantages of the promised state of freedom. It soon became obvious to those who watched the progress of the measure, that "apprenticeship" was but another name for slavery; and the facts having been laid before the public, and forced on the attention of Parliament, with the accustomed ability and energy of the leaders of the anti-slavery cause, that fruitful source of irritation, cruelty and oppression, was altogether removed.

The memorable 1st of August, 1838, witnessed the complete triumph of abolition principles, throughout the British West Indies, South America, Southern Africa, and the Indian Ocean, under

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circumstances as honourable to the emancipated slaves, as it was satisfactory to every true philanthropist. No crime stained the advent of freedom. No man was injured in his person or property. In his gratitude for the benefit he enjoyed, the liberated negro forgot the injuries he had received, and was prepared to return good for evil. Seven years have now passed away since the enslaved population of these dependencies of the Crown were made free; and whether we estimate the blessings of liberty by the amount of physical happiness it has bestowed, or measure it by the moral advantages it has conferred on one of the most degraded portions of mankind, we must admit that it has more than realized the most sanguine expectations of its friends. Formerly, the slave population melted away under a system of toil, privation, and punishment, too dreadful to be endured; now they increase rapidly in numbers, in property, and in influence; formerly, they were denied the blessings of education and religion; now they enjoy both, and their improvement in character is as remarkable as their increase in number.

This great work having been so happily achieved, the abolitionists directed their attention to the evil of slavery, as it had developed itself in other parts of the British empire. Year after year they brought the subject under the attention of government and of Parliament, and were gratified by the intelligence that, on the 5th of January, 1842, the Supreme Council of India had promulgated a law, that "in no part of the Straits' settlements, (including Malacca, Singapore, Penang, and Province Wellesley,) shall the status of slavery be recognized as existing by law." And "all courts and officers of law" were "prohibited from enforcing any claims founded on any supposed right of masters, in regard to slaves within the settlements aforesaid," and were "enjoined to afford protection to all persons against whom any supposed rights of slavery were attempted to be enforced." By this act, many thousands of slaves were liberated, and an atrocious slave-trade, chiefly carried on by Chinamen or Malay pirates, for the most iniquitous purposes, was suppressed.

The British Government having had the defective state of the law for the suppression of the slave-trade, so far as it related to British India, pointed out, they submitted a measure to Parliament to cure the same. This remedial act having passed the legislature, received the sanction of the Crown on the 10th of August 1842. It provides, that "all the powers vested in the governors, lieutenant-governors, and other persons exercising the authority of governors in Her Majesty's colonies and plantations, and in Her Majesty's officers there, civil and military, for the more effectual suppression of the importation of slaves into such colonies and plantations, by sea, and for the punishment of all persons guilty of the crime of introducing, or attempting to introduce, slaves to any such colonies or plantations," shall be "extended to, and vested in the respective governors, civil and military, of the several presidencies or places within the territories under the government of the East India Company." It was notorious, that slaves were every year introduced into British India from Africa; and that, owing to the different opinions entertained by the law officers of the company, of the existing Acts of Parliament against the slave-trade, no proper cognizance was, or could be, taken of those criminal acts. But this law has removed all difficulties on that head; and we may hope it will be found sufficient to secure the object at which it aims.

The principle of abolition having been once recognized by the government, it became easy to apply it. We find, therefore, the Go