 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 - Page 561824Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Washington Wilks - 1852 - 384 pages
...persons who hoped to profit by such alliances. In the session of 1823, Mr. Thomas Fowell Buxton moved, " that the state of slavery is repugnant to the principles...British constitution, and of the Christian religion, and that it ought to be abolished gradually throughout the British colonies, with as much expedition... | |
 | Charles Buxton - 1855 - 862 pages
...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... | |
 | Charles Elliott - 1855 - 640 pages
...Christian spirit. On the 15th of May, 1823, Mr. Buxton brought the following bill before Parliament: " 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 dominions with as much expedition... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1858 - 794 pages
...of 1823 ou West Indian affairs. Mr Thomas Powell Buxton moved, as a resolution, on the 15th of May: 'That the state of slavery is repugnant to the principles...British constitution, and of the Christian religion, and that it ought to bo abolished gradually throughout the British colonies, with as much expedition... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1859 - 786 pages
...to prepare the way. For instance, in May, 1823, Thomas Fovvell Buxton moved in the House of Commons that the state of slavery is repugnant to the principles...British Constitution and of the Christian religion, and that it ought to be abolished gradually throughout the British colonies with as much expedition... | |
 | 1860 - 712 pages
...esteem." given notice of his purpose to move, on a certain day, a resolution declaring slavery to be " repugnant to the principles of the British Constitution and of the Christian religion." The government, dreading to offend the powerful West India body, yet unprepared to brave and set at... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1865 - 512 pages
...1823 on West Indian affairs. Mr. Thomas Fowell Buxton moved, as a resolution, on the 15th of May : l " That the state of slavery is repugnant to the principles...British constitution, and of the Christian religion, and that it ought to be abolished gradually throughout the British colonies, with as much expedition... | |
 | James Ewing Ritchie - 1866 - 936 pages
...their parliamentary campaign. On the 15th of May, 1823, Mr. Buxton moved, in the House of Commons — " That the state of slavery is repugnant to the principles of the British constitution and the Christian religion; and that it ought to be gradually abolished throughout the British colonies,... | |
 | John McGilchrist - 1868 - 274 pages
...of the Abolitionists. Than Brougham, Buxton had no more zealous coadjutor. In 1823 Mr. Buxton moved "that the state of slavery is repugnant to the principles...British Constitution and of the Christian religion, and that it ought to be abolished gradually throughout the British colonies, with as much expedition... | |
 | William James Gardner - 1873 - 558 pages
...Mr. Fowell Buxton rose in his place in the House of Commons and moved the following 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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