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After long and tedious examinations and cross-questionings, and still more tedious debates, some portion of which, not uninstructive to the reader, may still be found in Burton's Diary, the following horrible resolution was agreed upon:
In aggressively seeking subscribers and advertisers in lieu of government printing contracts the two new papers gave extensive coverage to the Robinson scandals, the Chiswell murder case, and the running debates between the various candidates for Robinson's offices.
On another occasion he saw Edwin Forrest, then unknown to fame, and enjoyed the finished acting of Cooper, as Charles Surface, in the "School for Scandal." The popular performance at that time was "Tom and Jerry, or Life in London," and the flash sayings of Corinthian Tom and Bob Logic were quoted even in Congressional debates.
Continuation from July 1790 to July 1791 Author travels again throughout the kingdom Object of his journey Motion in the House of Commons to resume the hearing of evidence in favour of the abolition List of all those examined on this side of the question Machinations of interested persons, and cruel circumstances of the times previously to the day of decision Motion at length made for stopping all further importation of Slaves from Africa debates upon it motion lost Resolutions of the committee for the Abolition of the Slave-trade Establishment of the Sierra Leone Company.
Boys and girls were trained for suffrage debates and prizes given for essays. Subscriptions were solicited for Progress and the Woman's Journal; press work was pushed; opportunities were sought to speak before all kinds of organizations and there was a wide distribution of suffrage literature.
Their debates upon the subject have not been preserved.
Author travels round the kingdom again; object of his journey. People begin to leave off the use of sugar; to form committees; and to send petitions to Parliament. Motion made in the House of Commons for the immediate abolition of the trade; Debates upon it; Abolition resolved upon, but not to commence till 1796.
Then, by the same means as popular government employs in other matters by discussion, by debates in Parliament, by criticism of the Government. Now, these means are not employed at present partly because it is feared that criticism of the Government in matters of foreign policy will weaken its hands in dealing with foreign nations.
Who of you who read these words has not listened to debates and endless discussions as to what even so modern a writer as Emerson or Whitman, or Nietzche or Kobo Daisi, or some other, may have meant by certain statements? In the Samyutta Nikaya we read: "Let a man who holds the Self clear, keep that Self free from wickedness."
At last statesmanship had taken the place of party bickering, and, as James Ferrier of Montreal, a member of the Legislative Council, remarked in the debates of 1865, the legislators 'all thought, in fact, that a political millennium had arrived. Memoirs of Sir John Macdonald, by Sir Joseph Pope, vol. i, p. 265.
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