abolitionists. We ask you candidly and dispassionately to compare the
spirit, tone, and style of argument in the work before you, with the
writings and speeches of the anti-slavery propagandists, such as
Cheever, Channing, Wendell Phillips, and _Sherman's protege_. In
unsparing and vituperative denunciation they certainly excel; but are
they not filled with the most gross exaggerations and misrepresentations,
not to say willful falsehoods. Nowhere do you find that Christian candor
and fairness of argument, that should characterize the search after
truth, but in their stead only positive assertions, and inflammatory
appeals to the most vindictive passions of human nature.

In this crusade of the North against the South, there is a most
unwarrantable and impertinent interference with the concerns of others,
that ought to be most sternly rebuked; and it is one of the encouraging
signs of the times, that the Southern people are at last roused from
their inaction, and are vigorously engaged in adopting means of
self-protection. Many, however, in the North are engaged in this crusade
in order to divert attention from their own plague-spot--AGRARIANISM. We
all recollect the Patroon of Albany and the Van Rensellaer mobs,--the
Fourerism and Socialism of the free States, and the ever-active
antagonism of labor and capital. They are like the fleeing burglar, who,
more loudly than his pursuers, cries stop thief! For the time perhaps
they have succeeded in hounding on the rabble in full cry after the
South, and in diverting attention from themselves. But how will they
fare in the end? It is said of a certain animal, that when once it has
tasted human blood it never relinquishes the chase; so when the mob
shall have tasted the sweets of plunder and rapine in their raids upon
the South, will they spare the hoarded millions of the money-princes and
nabobs of the North? Are there not thousands of needy and thriftless
adventurers, or of starving and vicious poor, in the free States and
cities of the North, who look with ill-concealed envy, or with gloating
rapacity, on the prosperity and wealth of the aristocrats, as they term
them, of the spindle and loom, and of the counting-house? Ye
capitalists, ye merchant princes, ye master manufacturers, you may
excite to frenzy your Jacobin clubs, you may demoralize their minds of
all ideas of right and wrong, but remember! the gullotine is suspended
over your own necks!! The agrarian doctrines will ere long be applied to
yourselves, for with whatsoever measure ye mete, it shall be measured to
you again.

Ye who profess to be the ministers of the Prince of peace, yet are
engaged in preaching Sharp's rifles, or Brown's pikes; who teach that
murder is no crime, if committed by a slave upon his best friend, his
master; that midnight incendiarism is meritorious; that the breach of
every command in the decalogue is commendable, if perpetrated under the
guise of abolition philanthropy; who claim to possess a "higher law"
than the law of God; in fine, who preach every thing except Jesus
Christ, and him crucified; how shall you escape the sentence of holy
writ: "If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him
all the plagues that are written in this book; and if any man shall take
away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away
his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the
things which are written in this book."

Ye politicians, who, for the sake of place, power, and the spoils of
office, are engaged in alienating the feelings of both sections of our
Union; in producing division in our national councils; whose course is
fast bringing about the dissolution of our Union; to whose skirts will
cling the blood of the martyrs of liberty, so vainly shed?

Ye people of the North, our brothers by blood, by political
associations, by a community of interest; why will ye be led away by a
cruel and misguided philanthropy, or by designing demagogues? why will
ye strive to inflict the most irreparable injury upon the objects of
your misplaced sympathy? reduce to ruins this fair fabric of liberty,
and this happy land to desolation? Your own leaders acknowledge that,
hitherto, your agitation, far from bettering the condition of the
slaves, has only made it worse; and in some respects this is true. So
long as you confine yourselves to making or hearing abolition speeches,
or forming among yourselves anti-slavery societies; so long as you
confine the agitation to yourselves, you neither injure nor benefit the
slaves; your exuberant philanthropy escapes through the safety-valve in
the shape of gas. But when you attempt to circulate among them
incendiary documents, intended to render them unhappy, and discontented
with their lot, it becomes our duty to protect them against your
machinations. This is the sole reason why most, if not all the slave
States, have forbidden the slaves to be taught to read. But for your
interference, most of our slaves would now have been able to read the
word of God for themselves, instead of being dependent, as they now are,
on that _oral_ instruction, which is now so generally afforded them.
When emissaries come among them, to give them _oral_ instruction
different from that contained in the word of God, instead of abridging
the privileges of the slave, we deal directly with the emissary, and
justly, too; for we are acting not only in self-defense, but we are
guarding this dependent race, committed by God to our care, from those
malign influences which would work evil, not only to us, but to
themselves, also. Could you succeed in your efforts--which you will find
to be impossible--as the red republicans did in St. Domingo, or as the
English abolitionists did in Jamaica and Barbadoes, so far from having
bettered the condition of the blacks, you would have inflicted on them
an irreparable injury. But of this you will soon have an opportunity of
satisfying yourselves. We have among us a few hundred thousand of this
race, who have been emancipated through a mistaken philanthropy, and
who, though not injurious, are almost useless to us; these we have
concluded to colonize among you, that your lecturers, while lauding the
black man as being far superior to the white race, may never be in want
of a specimen of the genuine article, to point to, as a proof of the
truth of their arguments. Some of the slave States--and most, if not all
of them, will pursue the same policy--have already passed laws for the
removal of the free blacks from their borders, but allowing them the
option of remaining, by choosing their masters, and returning to a state
of servitude; and strange as you may think it, many have already done
so, in preference to going among their friends, the abolitionists. This
is done, not so much because we wish to be rid of this heterogeneous
element of our population, for at worst, they are, _with us_, only a
kind of harmless dead weight, but because we wish to send them North as
missionaries, to convert the abolitionists and free soilers. If we may
judge from the census and votes in the different counties in Ohio, the
experiment will be entirely successful, as those counties having the
largest black population, voted, in 1859, against the anti-slavery
ticket; whilst those which voted for it, possess but a meagre black
population. Is this because an intimate acquaintance with the negro,
convinces the community that freedom is not the normal or proper
condition for him; or is it because he prefers to reside amongst those
who make least pretensions of friendship for him? The anti-slavery men
may take either horn of the dilemma.

CONTENTS.

  INTRODUCTION BY THE EDITOR.                                      8

  COTTON IS KING.

    Preface to the Third Edition.                                 19
    Preface to the Second Edition.                                26
    Preface to the First Edition.                                 31

  CHAPTER I.

    INTRODUCTORY STATEMENTS.

         Character of the Slavery controversy in the United
         States; In Great Britain; Its influence in
         modifying the policy of Anti-Slavery men in
         America; Course of the Churches; Political Parties;
         Result, COTTON IS KING; Necessity of reviewing the
         policy in relation to the African race; Topics
         embraced in the discussion.                              33

  CHAPTER II.

    THE EARLY MOVEMENTS ON THE SUBJECT OF SLAVERY; THE
    CIRCUMSTANCES UNDER WHICH THE COLONIZATION SOCIETY TOOK
    ITS RISE; THE RELATIONS IT SUSTAINED TO SLAVERY AND TO
    THE SCHEMES PROJECTED FOR ITS ABOLITION; THE ORIGIN OF
    THE ELEMENTS WHICH HAVE GIVEN TO AMERICAN SLAVERY ITS
    COMMERCIAL VALUE AND CONSEQUENT POWERS OF EXPANSION;
    AND THE FUTILITY OF THE MEANS USED TO PREVENT THE
    EXTENSION OF THE INSTITUTION.

         Emancipation in the United States begun; First
         Abolition Society organized; Progress of
         Emancipation; First Cotton Mill; Exclusion of
         Slavery from N. W. Territory; Elements of Slavery
         expansion; Cotton Gin invented; Suppression of the
         Slave Trade; Cotton Manufactures commenced in
         Boston; Franklin's Appeal; Condition of the Free
         Colored People; Boston Prison-Discipline Society;
         Darkening Prospects of the Colored People.               35

  CHAPTER III.

         State of public opinion in relation to colored
         population; Southern views of Emancipation;
         Influence of Jefferson's opinions; He opposed
         Emancipation except connected with Colonization;
         Negro equality not contemplated by the Fathers of
         the Revolution; This proved by the resolutions of
         their conventions; The true objects of the
         opposition to the slave trade; Motives of British
         Statesmen in forcing Slavery on the colonies;
         Absurdity of supposing negro equality was
         contemplated.                                            41

  CHAPTER IV.

         Dismal condition of Africa; Hopes of Wilberforce
         disappointed; Organization of the American
         Colonization Society; Its necessity, objects, and
         policy; Public sentiment in its favor; Opposition
         developes itself; Wm. Lloyd Garrison, James G.
         Birney, Gerrit Smith; Effects of opposition;
         Stimulants to Slavery; Exports of Cotton; England
         sustaining American Slavery; Failure of the Niger
         Expedition; Strength of Slavery; Political action;
         Its failure; Its fruits.                                 48

  CHAPTER V.

    THE RELATIONS OF AMERICAN SLAVERY TO THE INDUSTRIAL INTERESTS
    OF OUR COUNTRY; TO THE DEMANDS OF COMMERCE; AND TO THE PRESENT
    POLITICAL CRISIS.

         Present condition of Slavery; Not an isolated
         system; Its relations to other industrial
         interests; To manufactures, commerce, trade, human
         comfort; Its benevolent aspect; The reverse
         picture; Immense value of tropical possessions to
         Great Britain; England's attempted monopoly of
         Manufactures; Her dependence on American Planters;
         Cotton Planters attempt to monopolize Cotton
         markets; _Fusion_ of these parties; Free Trade
         essential to their success; Influence on
         agriculture, mechanics; Exports of Cotton, Tobacco,
         etc.; Increased production of Provisions; Their
         extent; New markets needed.                              55

  CHAPTER VI.

         Foresight of Great Britain; Hon. George Thompson's
         predictions; Their failure; England's dependence on
         Slave labor; Blackwood's Magazine; London
         Economist; McCullough; Her exports of cotton goods;
         Neglect to improve the proper moment for
         Emancipation; Admission of Gerrit Smith; _Cotton_,
         its exports, its value, extent of crop, and cost of
         our cotton fabrics; _Provissions_, their value,
         their export, their consumption; _Groceries_,
         source of their supplies, cost of amount consumed;
         Our total indebtedness to Slave labor; How far Free
         labor sustains Slave labor.                              61

  CHAPTER VII.

         Economical relations of Slavery further considered;
         System unprofitable in grain growing, but
         profitable in culture of Cotton; Antagonism of
         Farmer and Planter; "Protection," and "Free Trade"
         controversy; Congressional Debates on the Subject;
         Mr. Clay; Position of the South; "Free Trade,"
         considered indispensable to its prosperity.              67

  CHAPTER VIII.

         Tariff controversy continued; Mr. Hayne; Mr.
         Carter; Mr. Govan; Mr. Martindale; Mr. Buchanan;
         Sugar Planters invoked to aid Free Trade; The West
         also invoked; Its pecuniary embarrassments for want
         of markets; Henry Baldwin; Remarks on the views of
         the parties; State of the world; Dread of the
         protective policy by the Planters; Their schemes to
         avert its consequences, and promote Free Trade.          73

  CHAPTER IX.

         Character of the Tariff controversy; Peculiar
         condition of the people; Efforts to enlist the West
         in the interests of the South; Mr. McDuffie; Mr.
         Hamilton; Mr Rankin; Mr. Garnett; Mr. Cuthbert; the
         West still shut out from market; Mr. Wickliffe; Mr.
         Benton; Tariff of 1828 obnoxious to the South;
         Georgia Resolutions; Mr. Hamilton; Argument to
         Sugar Planters.                                          79

  CHAPTER X.

         Tariff controversy continued; Tariff of 1832; The
         crisis; _Secession_ threatened; Compromise finally
         adopted; Debates; Mr. Hayne; Mr. McDuffie; Mr.
         Clay; Adjustment of the subject.                         86

  CHAPTER XI.

         Results of the contest on Protection and Free
         Trade; More or less favorable to all; Increased
         consumption of Cotton at home; Capital invested in
         Cotton and Woolen factories; Markets thus afforded
         to the Farmer; South successful in securing the
         monopoly of the Cotton markets; Failure of Cotton
         cultivation in other countries; Diminished prices
         destroyed Household Manufacturing; Increasing
         demand for Cotton; Strange Providences; First
         efforts to extend Slavery; Indian lands acquired;
         No danger of over-production; Abolition movements
         served to unite the South; Annexation of territory
         thought essential to its security; Increase of
         provisions necessary to its success; Temperance
         cause favorable to this result; The West ready to
         supply the Planters; It is greatly stimulated to
         effort by Southern markets; _Tripartite Alliance_
         of Western Farmers, Southern Planters, and English
         Manufacturers; The East competing; The West has a
         choice of markets; Slavery extension necessary to
         Western progress; Increased price of Provisions;
         More grain growing needed; Nebraska and Kansas
         needed to raise food; The Planters stimulated by
         increasing demand for Cotton; Aspect of the
         Provision question; California gold changed the
         expected results of legislation; Reciprocity Treaty
         favorable to Planters; Extended cultivation of
         Provisions in the Far West essential to Planters;
         Present aspect of the Cotton question favorable to
         Planters; London _Economist's_ statistics and
         remarks; Our Planters must extend the culture of
         Cotton to prevent its increased growth elsewhere.        91

  CHAPTER XII.

         Consideration of foreign cultivation of Cotton
         further considered; Facts and opinions stated by
         the London _Economist_; Consumption of Cotton
         tending to extend the production; India affords the
         only field of competition with the United States;
         Its vast inferiority; Imports from India dependent
         upon price; Free Labor and Slave Labor can not be
         united on the same field; Supply of the United
         States therefore limited by natural increase of
         slaves; Limited supply of labor tends to renewal of
         slave trade; Cotton production in India the only
         obstacle which Great Britain can interpose against
         American Planters; Africa, too, to be made
         subservient to this object; Parliamentary
         proceedings on this subject; Successful Cotton
         culture in Africa; Slavery to be permanently
         established by this policy; Opinions of the
         _American Missionary_; Remarks showing the position
         of the Cotton question in its relations to slavery;
         Great Britain building up slavery in Africa to
         break it down in America.                               100

  CHAPTER XIII.

         Rationale of the Kansas-Nebraska movement; Western
         agriculturists merely feeders of Slaves; Dry goods
         and groceries nearly all of Slave labor origin;
         Value of Imports; How paid for; Planters pay for
         more than three-fourths; Slavery intermediate
         between Commerce and Agriculture; Slavery not
         self-sustaining; Supplies from the North essential
         to its success; Proximate extent of these supplies;
         Slavery, the central power of the industrial
         interests, depending on Manufactures and Commerce;
         Abolitionists contributing to this result;
         Protection prostrate; Free Trade dominant; The
         South triumphant; Country ambitious of territorial
         aggrandizement; The world's peace disturbed; Our
         policy needs modifying to meet contingencies;
         Defeat of Mr. Clay; War with Mexico; Results
         unfavorable to renewal of Protective policy;
         Dominant political party at the North gives its
         adhesion to Free Trade; Leading Abolition paper
         does the same; Ditches on the wrong side of
         breastworks; Inconsistency; Free Trade the main
         element in extending Slavery; Abolition United
         States Senators' voting with the South; North thus
         shorn of its power; _Home Market_ supplied by
         Slavery; People acquiesce; Despotism and Freedom;
         Preservation of the Union paramount; Colored people
         must wait a little; Slavery triumphant; People at
         large powerless; Necessity of severing the Slavery
         question from politics; Colonisation the only hope;
         Abolitionism prostrate; Admissions on this point,
         by Parker, Sumner, Campbell; Other dangers to be
         averted; Election of Speaker Banks a Free Trade
         Triumph; Neutrality necessary; Liberia the colored
         man's hope.                                             123

  CHAPTER XIV.

    THE INDUSTRIAL, SOCIAL, AND MORAL CONDITION OF THE FREE
    PEOPLE OF COLOR IN THE BRITISH COLONIES, HAYTI, AND IN
    THE UNITED STATES; AND THE INFLUENCE THEY HAVE EXERTED
    ON PUBLIC SENTIMENT IN RELATION TO SLAVERY, AND TO THEIR
    OWN PROSPECTS OF EQUALITY WITH THE WHITES.

         Effects of opposition to Colonization on Liberia;
         Its effects on free colored people; Their social
         and moral condition; Abolition testimony on the
         subject; American Missionary Association; Its
         failure in Canada; Degradation of West India free
         colored people; American and Foreign Anti-Slavery
         Society; Its testimony on the dismal condition of
         West India free negroes; London _Times_ on same
         subject; Mr. Bigelow on same subject; Effect of
         results in West Indies on Emancipation; Opinion of
         Southern Planters; Economical failure of West India
         Emancipation; Ruinous to British Commerce; Similar
         results in Hayti; Extent of diminution of exports
         from West Indies resulting from Emancipation;
         Results favorable to American Planter; Moral
         condition of Hayti; Later facts in reference to the
         West Indies; Negro free labor a failure; necessity
         of education to render freedom of value; Franklin's
         opinion confirmed; Colonization essential to
         promote Emancipation.                                   132

  CHAPTER XV.

         Moral condition of the free colored people in
         United States; What have they gained by refusing to
         accept Colonization? Abolition testimony on the
         subject; Gerrit Smith; New York _Tribune_; Their
         moral condition as indicated by proportions in
         Penitentiaries; Census Reports; Native whites,
         foreign born, and free colored, in Penitentiaries;
         But little improvement in Massachusetts in seventy
         years; Contrasts of Ohio with New England;
         Antagonism of Abolitionism to free negroes.             149

  CHAPTER XVI.

         Disappointment of English and American
         Abolitionists; Their failure attributed to the
         inherent evils of Slavery; Their want of
         discrimination; The differences in the system in
         the British Colonies and in the United States;
         Colored people of United States vastly in advance
         of all others; Success of the Gospel among the
         Slaves; _Democratic Review_ on African
         civilization; Vexation of Abolitionists at their
         failure; Their apology not to be accepted; Liberia
         attests its falsity; The barrier to the colored
         man's elevation removable only by Colonization;
         Colored men begin to see it; Chambers, of
         Edinburgh; His testimony on the crushing effects of
         New England's treatment of colored people; Charges
         Abolitionists with insincerity; Approves
         Colonization; Abolition violence rebuked by an
         English clergyman.                                      154

  CHAPTER XVII.

         Failure of free colored people in attaining an
         equality with the whites; Their failure also in
         checking Slavery; Have they not aided in its
         extension? Yes; Facts in proof of this view;
         Abolitionists bad Philosophers; Colored men's
         influence destructive of their hopes; Summary
         manner in which England acts in their removal; Lord
         Mansfield's decision; Granville Sharp's labors and
         their results; Colored immigration into Canada;
         Information supplied by Major Lachlan; Demoralized
         condition of the blacks as indicated by the crimes
         they committed; Elgin Association; Public meeting
         protesting against its organization; Negro meeting
         at Toronto; Memorial of municipal council; Negro
         riot at St. Catherine's; Col. Prince and the
         Negroes; Later cases of presentation by Grand Jury;
         Opinion of the Judge; Darkening prospects of the
         colored race; Views of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher;
         Their accuracy; The lesson they teach.                  172

  CHAPTER XVIII.

    THE MORAL RELATIONS OF PERSONS HOLDING THE "PER SE"
    DOCTRINE ON THE SUBJECT OF SLAVERY, TO THE PURCHASE
    AND CONSUMPTION OF SLAVE LABOR PRODUCTS.

         Moral relations of Slavery; Relations of the
         consumer of Slave labor products to the system;
         Grand error of all Anti-Slavery effort: Law of
         _particeps criminis_; Daniel O'Connell; _Malum in
         se_ doctrine; Inconsistency of those who hold it;
         English Emancipationists; Their commercial
         argument; Differences between the position of Great
         Britain and the United States; Preaching versus
         practice by Abolitionists; Cause of their want of
         influence over the Slaveholder; Necessity of
         examining the question; Each man to be judged by
         his own standard; Classification of opinions in the
         United States, in regard to the morality of
         Slavery; Three Views; A case in illustration;
         Apology of _per se_ men for using Slave grown
         products insufficient; Law relating to "confusion
         of goods;" _per se_ men _participes criminis_ with
         Slaveholder; Taking Slave grown products under
         _protest_ absurd; World's Christian Evangelical
         Alliance; Amount of Slave labor Cotton in England
         at that moment; Pharisaical conduct; The Scotchman
         taking his wife under protest; Anecdote; American
         Cotton more acceptable to Englishmen than
         Republican principles; Secret of England's policy
         toward American Slavery; The case of robbery again
         cited, and the English Satirized; A contrast;
         Causes of the want of moral power of Abolitionists;
         Slaveholder no cause to cringe; Other results;
         Effect of the adoption of the _per se_ doctrine by
         ecclesiastical bodies; Slaves thus left in all
         their moral destitution; Inconsistency of _per se_
         men denouncing others; What the Bible says of
         similar conduct.                                        203

  Conclusion.                                                    215

APPENDIX.

  Early movements in the American Colonies on the Slavery
    question.                                                    227
  Free colored population in Canada.                             239
  Important decisions relating to Negroes in Common Schools.     245
  Massachusetts Black Militia.                                   246
  South Side Views.                                              246
  Colored people emigrating from Louisiana to Hayti.             248
  The Coolie Traffic.                                            248

  TABLE I.--Cotton, its influence on Commerce, Manufactures,
    Slavery, Emancipation, etc., from its earliest use in
    England to present date; Sources of its supplies; Dates
    of inventions increasing its use; Dates of movements
    designed to favor the blacks; Dates of occurrences
    antagonistic to their hopes.                                 250

  TABLE II.--Tabular statement of Agricultural products and
    products of Animals exported; Total value of products of
    Animals and Agriculture raised in the United States; Value
    of amount left for consumption and use; Value of Cotton
    exported, of total crop, and of amount left for consumption;
    Do. of Tobacco, and its products.                            254

  TABLE. III.--Total imports of more important Groceries for
    1853; Re-exports of do.; Proportion from Slave labor
    countries.                                                   254

  TABLE IV.--Free colored and Slave population of United
    States; Diminution of free colored population in New
    England; Rapid increase in Ohio, etc.                        255

  TABLE. V.--Influence of colored population on public
    sentiment in Ohio; Vote for and against Abolition
    candidate for Governor, by counties.                         259

  TABLE VI.--Total Cotton crop of United States, with the
    amounts exported, the consumption of the United States,
    North of Virginia, and the Stock on hand, September 1,
    of each year, from 1840 to 1859, inclusive.                  260

  TABLE VII.--Statement of the value of Cotton Manufactures,
    of Foreign Production, which were imported into the United
    States; And the value of the Cotton goods Manufactured in
    the United States, and exported, during the years stated;
    Also a statement showing the amount of Coffee imported into
    the United States annually, with the amount taken for
    consumption, during the years 1850 to 1858, inclusive.       261

  TABLE VIII.--Statement exhibiting the value of the exports
    from the United States of breadstuffs and provisions; The
    amount and value of Cotton exported, with the average
    cost per pound; and the amount of Tobacco exported from
    1821 to 1859 inclusive.                                      262

  TABLE IX.--Statement exhibiting the value of Foreign goods
    imported and taken for consumption in the United States;
    The value of Domestic produce of the United States exported,
    exclusive of Specie; The value of Specie and bullion
    imported, and the value of Specie and bullion exported,
    from 1821 to 1859 inclusive.                                 263

  TABLE X.--Statement showing the amount of Cane Sugar and
    Molasses consumed  in the United States annually, with
    the proportions that are Domestic and Foreign, for 1850
    to 1858, inclusive.                                          264

  TABLE XI.--Cotton imported into Great Britain from various
    countries, quantity re-exported, and Stock on hand,
    December 31, from 1840 to 1858, inclusive; Also, average
    Weekly consumption of Cotton in Europe, from 1850 to 1858,
    inclusive.                                                   266

  TABLE XII.--Cotton is King, Summary statement of the value
    of exports of the growth, produce, and manufacture of the
    United States, for the year  ending June 30, 1859; The
    productions of the North and of the South, respectively,
    being placed in opposite columns; and the articles of a
    mixed origin being stated separately.                        267

LIBERTY AND SLAVERY: OR, SLAVERY IN THE LIGHT OF MORAL AND POLITICAL
PHILOSOPHY.

  Introduction.                                                  271

  CHAPTER I.

    THE NATURE OF CIVIL LIBERTY.

         The commonly-received definition of Civil Liberty;
         Examination of the commonly-received definition of
         Civil Liberty; No good law over limits or abridges
         the Natural Liberty of Mankind; The distinction
         between Rights and Liberty; The Relation between
         the State of Nature and Civil Society; Inherent and
         Inalienable Rights; Conclusion of the First
         Chapter.                                                273

  CHAPTER II.

    THE ARGUMENTS AND POSITIONS OF ABOLITIONISTS.

         The first fallacy of the Abolitionists; The second
         fallacy of the Abolitionists; The third fallacy of
         the Abolitionists; The fourth fallacy of the
         Abolitionists; The fifth fallacy of the
         Abolitionists; The sixth fallacy of the
         Abolitionists; The seventh fallacy of the
         Abolitionists; The eighth fallacy of the
         Abolitionists; The ninth fallacy of the
         Abolitionists; The tenth, eleventh, twelfth,
         thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth
         fallacies of the Abolitionists; or their seven
         arguments against the right of a man to hold
         property in his fellow-man; The seventeenth fallacy
         of the Abolitionists; or, the Argument from the
         Declaration of Independence.                            290

  CHAPTER III.

    THE ARGUMENT FROM THE SCRIPTURES.

         The Argument from the Old Testament; The Argument
         from the New Testament.                                 337

  CHAPTER IV.

    THE ARGUMENT FROM THE PUBLIC GOOD.

         The Question; Emancipation in the British Colonies;
         The manner in which Emancipation has ruined the
         British Colonies; The great benefit supposed, by
         American Abolitionists, to result to the freed
         Negroes from the British Act of Emancipation; The
         Consequences of Abolition in the South; Elevation
         of the Blacks by Southern Slavery.                      380

  CHAPTER V.

    THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW.

         Mr. Seward's Attack on the Constitution of his
         Country; The Attack of Mr. Sumner on the
         Constitution of his Country; The Right of Trial by
         Jury not impaired by the Fugitive Slave Law; The
         Duty of the Citizen in regard to the Constitution
         of the United States.                                   380

THE BIBLE ARGUMENT: OR, SLAVERY IN THE LIGHT OF DIVINE REVELATION.

  1. Including a full investigation of the Scripture texts
       upon this subject.                                        461

  2. Statistical view of Slavery, contrasting the relative
      condition of the North and South, in the light of the
      Statistics of the United States census.                    522

SLAVERY IN THE LIGHT OF SOCIAL ETHICS.

INFLUENCE OF SLAVERY ON SOCIAL LIFE.

         Necessity of Investigation; Vindicators of Slavery;
         Slavery a means of Civilization; Prejudices of
         Abolitionism; Discussion of the Declaration of
         Independence; Rights of Society; Self-preservation;
         The greatest good to the greatest number; Ambiguity
         in moral Investigation; Influence of Slavery on
         Civilization; The Slavery of England's
         Civilization; How Slavery retards the evils of
         Civilization; Servitude Inevitable; Abuses of
         Slavery and of Free Labor; Social ties, master and
         slave; Intellectual advancement; Morals of Slavery,
         and of Free Labor; Marriage relation and
         licentiousness; Virtues of Slavery; Security from
         Evils; Insecurity of Free Labor; Menial occupations
         necessary; Utopianism; Slavery and the servitude of
         Civilization contrasted; The African an inferior
         variety of the human race; Elevating influence of
         Slavery on the slave, on the master, on statesmen;
         Duties of master; Elevation of female character;
         Necessity of Slavery in tropical climates; Examples
         from history; Southern States; Insurrections
         impossible; Military strength of Slavery
         Advantageous consequences of the increase of
         slaves; Destructive consequences of Emancipation to
         our country, and to the world; Kakistocracy; White
         emigration; Amalgamation; Deplorable results of
         Fanaticism.                                             549

SLAVERY IN THE LIGHT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE.

         Statement of the Question; Slave Trade increased by
         the efforts made to suppress it; Title to Slaves,
         to Lands; Abstract Ideas; Is Slavery Sin? Argument
         from the Old Testament; Argument from the New
         Testament; The "Higher Law;" Political Influence of
         Slavery; Free Labor Police; In war, Slavery is
         Strength; Code of Honor: Mercantile Credit;
         Religion and Education; Licentiousness and Purity;
         Economy of Slave Labor, and of Free Labor;
         Responsibility of Power; Kindness and Cruelty;
         Curtailment of Privileges; Punishment of Slaves,
         children and soldiers; Police of Slavery; Condition
         of Slaves; Condition of Free Laborers in England;
         Slavery a necessary condition of Human Society;
         Moral Suasion of the Abolitionists; Coolie Labor;
         Results of Emancipation in the West Indies; Revival
         of the Slave Trade by Emancipationists; Results of
         Emancipation in the United States; Radicalism of
         the present Age.                                        629

         Ignorance of Abolitionists; Argument of
         Abolitionists refuted; Abolitionism leads to
         Infidelity; Law of Force a law of Love; Wages of
         Slaves and of hired labor; Results of emancipation
         to the world; Falsehoods of Abolitionists; English
         estimate of our Northern citizens; British
         interference in the politics of our country;
         Sensitiveness of the Southern People; Rise and
         progress of Fanaticism.                                 671

SLAVERY IN THE LIGHT OF ETHNOLOGY.

         Philosphy of the Negro constitution, elicited by
         questions propounded by Dr. C. R. Hall, of Torquay,
         England, through Prof. Jackson of Massachusetts
         Medical College, Boston, to Samuel A. Cartwright,
         M. D. New Orleans.                                      691

         Natural history of the prognathous species of
         mankind.                                                707

         On the Caucasians and the Africans.                     717

  SLAVERY IN THE LIGHT OF INTERNATIONAL LAW.                     731

  DECISION OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES IN THE
    DRED SCOTT CASE.                                             741

  THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW.

         Alleged Immorality of the Law answered; Duty of
         Obedience; Government a Divine Institution; The
         Warrant of Government is not the consent of the
         governed; Infidel Doctrines; Deductions from this
         Doctrine; Decision of The Supreme Court; Objections
         answered; Conscience and the Law; Duty of Executive
         Officers; Duty of Private Citizens; Objections
         answered; Right of Revolution; Summary application
         of these principles to the Fugitive Slave Law;
         Conclusion.                                              807

  THE BIBLE ARGUMENT ON SLAVERY.

         Infatuation of the Abolitionists; Necessity of
         Correct Opinions; Statement of the Question;
         Slavery as Treated by Christ and his Apostles;
         Slaveholding not Sinful; Answer to this Argument;
         Dr. Channing's Answer; Admissions; Reply to the
         Abolition Argument; Mr. Birney's Admissions;
         Argument from the Old Testament; Polygamy and
         Divorce; Inalienable Rights.                            837

  THE EDUCATION, LABOR, AND WEALTH OF THE SOUTH.                 875

CONCLUDING REMARKS.                                              893

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