 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
 | Thomas Smart Hughes - Great Britain - 1836 - 492 pages
...Buxton, on the fifteenth of May, 1823, after a speech very inflammatory in its tendency, moved, that a state of slavery is repugnant to the principles of the British constitution and the Christian religion, and ought to be CHAP. gradually abolished throughout the British colonies.... | |
 | George Canning, Roger Therry - Great Britain - 1836 - 452 pages
...the honourable member for Weymouth, on the occasion to which the learned civilian has alluded, viz that the state of slavery is repugnant to the principles of the Christian religion. To this, Sir, I objected, not, certainly, meaning thereby to degrade the Christian... | |
 | Esther Copley - Antislavery movements - 1839 - 674 pages
...which took place May 15, 1823. On that day Mr. Buxton made a motion to the following effect: — " That the state of slavery is repugnant to the principles...ought to be gradually abolished throughout the British dominions, with as much expedition as may be consistent with due regard to the well being of all the... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1860 - 722 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... | |
 | James Mursell Phillippo - Blacks - 1843 - 662 pages
...in March, 1823, brought forward a resolution in the House of Commons, " declaring that slavery was repugnant to the principles of the British Constitution...ought to be gradually abolished throughout the British dominions." It was intended that this resolution should be at once succeeded by ameliorative measures... | |
 | George Canning - 1844 - 646 pages
...am alluding) begins his Resolution with a recital which I confess greatly embarrasses me. He says, that ' the state of slavery is repugnant to the principles...British Constitution, and of the Christian religion.' God forbid that he who ventures to object to this statement should therefore be held to assert a contradiction... | |
 | George Newenham Wright, Charles Henry Timperley - Engraving - 1845 - 274 pages
...the detestable system, and led the way to its final extinction. It was couched in these words — " That the state of slavery is repugnant to the principles...ought to be gradually abolished throughout the British dominions, with as much expedition as may be consistent with a due regard to the well-being of the... | |
 | Bond of brotherhood - 1866 - 226 pages
...The resolution with which Mr. Buxton began the debate deserves to be recorded, it was as follows : " That the state of slavery is repugnant to the principles...as may be found consistent with a due regard to the well being of the parties concerned." This was moderate, but firm — the product of the enlightened... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - Portraits, British - 1846 - 512 pages
...the detestable system, and led the way to its final extinction. It was couched in these words — " That the state of slavery is repugnant to the principles...ought to be gradually abolished throughout the British dominions, with as much expedition as may be consistent with a due regard to the well-being of the... | |
 | Thomas Smart Hughes - Great Britain - 1846 - 636 pages
...Buxton, on the fifteenth of May, 1823, after a speech very inflammatory in its tendency, moved, that a state of slavery is repugnant to the principles of the British constitution as well as the christian religion, and ought to be gradually abolished throughout the British colonies.... | |
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