The friends of emancipation would urge in the first instance an immediate abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, and in the Territories of Florida and Arkansas.
He cared not what cast or creed or color it might assume, whether personal or political, intellectual or spiritual; he was for its total, immediate abolition.
An attempt was subsequently made by Sir Eardley Wilmot to obtain a resolution from the house in favour of immediate abolition.
In principle he stood clearly with Bourne and Duncan, as he afterwards came to the support of Garrison, although he did not use the words "immediate abolition.
He would therefore recommend it to the House to adopt the same measure, and to soften the rigours of slavery by wholesome regulations; but an immediate abolitionhe could not countenance.
They contended also, that Mr. Dundas had now proved, a thousand times more strongly than ever, the necessity of immediate abolition.
He would first observe, that, if this argument was worth any thing, it applied just as much to gradual as to immediate abolition.
In Parliament, the measure was discussed to its dregs; the friends of immediate Abolition striving to remedy its defects--the West India interest contesting every clause and comma with heroic pertinacity.
It was on this occasion that Daniel O'Connell uttered the noble and comprehensive sentiment--"I am for speedy, immediate abolition.
But it may be said," continues the author, "immediate abolition would be the greatest possible injury to the slaves themselves.
Mr. Whitbread professed himself a strenuous advocate for the total and immediate abolition of the Slave Trade.
He would, therefore, recommend it to the House to adopt the same measure, and to soften the rigours of slavery by wholesome regulations; but an immediate abolition he could not countenance.
The total abolishment of slavery in the southern republics has proved beyond dispute the safety and utility of immediate abolition.
Here, too, the question of West India emancipation came up for consideration, was earnestly and ably debated through three long evenings, and resulted in favor of the immediate abolition of slavery.
An anxious inquiry was awakened as to the truth of the allegations brought against the Colonization scheme, and as to the justice of the new demand made by Mr. Garrison and his associates for the “immediate abolition of slavery.
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