Slavery in Algiers is here delineated in the sufferings of a single captive,--as Slavery in the United States has been since depicted in the sufferings of “Uncle Tom”; but the argument of the early story was hardly less strong against…

Grant me,” says the Algerine captive--who had been a surgeon on board a ship in the African slave-trade--from the depths of his own sorrows, “once more to taste the freedom of my native country, and every moment of my life shall be…

I will fly to our fellow-citizens in the Southern States; I will on my knees conjure them, in the name of humanity, to abolish a traffic which causes it to bleed in every pore.

Americans of the United States, your fellow-citizens are in fetters!

Or must it forever be the fate of free States, that the soft voice of union should be drowned in the hoarse clamor of discord?

Even the absorbing contest with Great Britain could not prevent an outbreak of indignant sympathy for those in bonds.

Thus, by war, and not by money, was Emancipation this time obtained.

Amidst the crumbling ruins of walls and citadel, the cruel Slave Power was humbled, and by solemn stipulation consented to the surrender of all slaves in Algiers, and the abolition of White Slavery forever.

In all the vicissitudes of a long life of public service, no circumstance has ever produced on my mind such impressions of gratitude and joy as the event of yesterday.

If, in looking back upon its history, we find much to humble our pride, if we are disposed to mourn that the National Government stooped to ransom men justly free without price, yet we cannot fail to gather instruction from this great…

The passage of the bill under your thorough exposition of the subject will be a big white stone in our pathway as a nation, and a gravestone to the vampires and Vandals who have left nothing by the wayside but works of treason leading to…

Had it not been for your masterly policy and your wise discretion, allied to a most persistent determination, we have reason to doubt whether the Bill of Recognition would not have met with a miscarriage during the present session of…

Thanks to your fast friendship, it has not failed, and the Republic of Liberia has been brought, through wise and cordial legislation, into brotherhood with the great Republic of America.

Much as I incline against capital punishment, little as I am disposed to continue this barbarous penalty, unworthy of a civilized age, I see so much of good in this example at the present moment, that I reconcile myself to it without a…

Clearly it will be a warning to slave-traders, and also notice to the civilized world that at last we are in earnest, while it helps make the slave-trade detestable.

So conduct the present war, that, when once ended, there shall be no remaining element of discord, no surviving principle of battle, out of which future war can spring.

Above all, belligerent Slavery must not rear its crest as an independent power.

Crime is seen in the punishment, and the gallows sheds upon it that infamy which nothing short of martyrdom in a good cause can overcome.

Our flag is desecrated by this hateful commerce; ships equipped in New York are tempted by its cruel gains.

To stop this has been impossible, while Slavery prevailed in the National Government.

How could our courts judge the slave-trader, how could the National Government set itself against the hateful commerce, while Slavery occupied all the places of power?

If Emancipation is yet longer delayed, Slavery is at least dislodged from its predominant influence.

The case is memorable, not only as a check to negotiations for the suppression of the slave-trade, but as a conspicuous instance, where the Senate, in dealing with a power like Great Britain, did not shrink from asserting its prerogative…

The same repugnance, doubtless, influenced Senators in the vote on the treaty, increased by a growing sentiment for Slavery, which the debates on the Missouri Compromise had quickened.

Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.