Alas for that Royal Consort, humane and just, whose dying voice was given to assuage the temper of that ministerial despatch, by which, in an evil hour, England was made to strike hands with Rebel Slavery!--for the counsellor is needed now to save the land he adorned from an act of inexpiable shame.
Sumner expresses sorrow for a royal consort who once advocated against slavery but is now complicit in it.
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Sovereignty of, belongs to the people, XVI. 28.
Early testimony of the Church against, I. 59.
Contrary to Christianity, but upheld by the Church, I. 54, 58.
Slavery and the: speech in New York, XI. 433.
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