 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...  The Parliamentary Debates - Page 1023by Great Britain. Parliament - 1828Full view - About this book
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1880 - 1316 pages
...indirectly encouraged. On the 1 5th of May, 1823, Mr. Thomas Fowell Buxton moved as a resolution, " That the state of Slavery is repugnant to the principles...religion ; and that it ought to be gradually abolished t! roughout the British Colonies, with as much expedition as may be found consistent with a due regard... | |
 | Edward Bean Underhill - Baptists - 1881 - 458 pages
...Commons. In March of that year that eminent man brought forward a resolution declaring that slavery was repugnant to the principles of the British Constitution...ought to be gradually abolished throughout the British dominions. It was not adopted, but a resolution of a similar, though less comprehensive, kind was carried... | |
 | English history - 1881 - 888 pages
...1823 on West Indian affaire. Mr. Thomas Fowell Buxton moved as a resolution on the 1 5th of Jfaf. ' the state of slavery is repugnant to the principles of the British constitute the Christian religion, and that it ought to be abolished gradually throa.British colonies,... | |
 | James Taylor - 1882 - 284 pages
...flagrant, undisguised injustice' — on which he based and justified the resolution moved by him, ' 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... | |
 | Justin McCarthy - Great Britain - 1882 - 302 pages
...brought on his first motion for the abolition of slavery. The resolution declared the slavery system repugnant to the principles of the British Constitution and of the Christian religion, and declared that it ought to be gradually abolished throughout the British colonies, with such expedition... | |
 | Missions - 1842 - 726 pages
...the year 1828, the following resolution was moved by Mr. now Sir TF Buxton :— " That the state <»f slavery is repugnant to the principles of the British...of the Christian religion ; and that it ought to be abolished gradually, throughout the British colonies, with as much expedition as may be found consistent... | |
 | George Winfred Hervey - Baptists - 1884 - 888 pages
...Ill health compelled him to leave the island the same year that Mr. and Mrs. Phillippo arrived. was repugnant to the principles of the British Constitution...ought to be gradually abolished throughout the British dominions. This resolution was lost; but another of a less comprehensive kind was carried by Mr. Canning,... | |
 | Society of Friends - Quakers - 1888 - 462 pages
...the emancipationists. On the 1 5th May, 1823, Mr. Buxton brought forward a resolution to the effect "that the state of slavery is repugnant to the principles...regard to the well-being of the parties concerned." In opposition to this motion, Mr. Canning, on the part of the Government, moved and carried certain... | |
 | Edmund Kell Blyth - Economists - 1889 - 428 pages
...up to the " spirit of the axiom placed so prominently in the fore" ground by the abolitionists — 'that the state of slavery is " ' repugnant to the...British Constitution " ' and of the Christian religion ' — were they to listen to " their feelings alone, and, excluding the voice of reason " from their... | |
 | Sir Spencer Walpole - History - 1890 - 502 pages
...Constitution and of the fi«' motion Christian religion, and that it ought to be gradually abolition abolished throughout the British colonies, with as much expedition as may be found consistent with due regard to the well-being of the parties concerned."4 He asked the 1 For Quasheba's case see Hansard,... | |
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