 | William James Gardner - Agriculture - 1873 - 536 pages
...Mr. Fowell Buxton rose in his place in the House of Commons and moved the following resolution : " That the state of slavery /. is repugnant to the principles of the British constitution Tt* and of the Christian religion, and that it ought to be *.vvv.. .. ^ gradually abolished throughout... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1874 - 810 pages
...indirectly encouraged. On the 15th of May, 1823, Mr. Thomas Powell Buxton moved as a resolution, " That the state of Slavery is repugnant to the principles...British Constitution, and of the Christian religion ; and that it ought to be gradually abolished throughout the British Colonies, with as much expedition... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - Great Britain - 1877 - 536 pages
...1823 on West Indian affairs. Mr. Thomas Fowell Buxton moved, as a resolution, on the 15th of May : ' That the state of slavery is repugnant to the principles...British constitution, and of the Christian religion, and that it ought to be abolished gradually throughout the British colonies, with as much expedition... | |
 | John Waddington - Congregationalism - 1878 - 692 pages
...May, 1823, Mr. Thomas Powell, Buxton, moved a resolution in the House of Commons to the effect : — " That the state of slavery is repugnant to the principles...British Constitution and of the Christian religion, and that it ought to be abolished gradually throughout the British colonies with as much expedition... | |
 | 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 and of the Christian religion, and that it ought to be gradually abolished throughout the British dominions. It was not adopted, but... | |
 | 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 Constitution and of the Christian religion ; and that it ought to be abolished gradually, throughout the British colonies, with as much expedition... | |
 | 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 and of the Christian religion, and that it ought to be gradually abolished throughout the British dominions. This resolution was lost;... | |
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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... 
