nd their wives. Eliza flees precipitately across the
river on floating fragments of ice,

Mrs. Stowe has calumniated her country. The moral influence of the
great American Republic is destroyed,

Clerical knaves and fools. N. England infidelity,

My country is my pride, my country is my boast, my country is my all.
We listen with pleasure to a recital of the vices of our neighbors,

CHAPTER III.

Abolition excitement in the North, thirty-five years ago. Discussion,
public sentiment, and treatment of Southern slaves, previous to that
time,

The effects of anti-slavery excitement in the North, on the South.
Discussion cut off--the enactment of rigid laws, &c. Benjamin Lundy,

Why was it, that the abolition excitement in the North produced such a
panic in the South? Shocking doctrines and incendiary publications,

Who was it that crashed in embryo the reform that was in progress
thirty-five years ago? Henry Clay's Letter,

A legitimate conclusion. The object of abolitionists, dissolution of
the Union, civil war, &c.

The tendency and spirit of abolitionism. A confederacy, North and
South,

The whig and the democratic parties,

Col. Benton and Gen. Cass. Parties and party spirit,

Hale, Julian and Giddings. Ambition. A summary of my leading
objections to _abolitionism_,

_Negro stealing a virtue_. Detroit Free Press,

Tom Corwin and the abolitionists,

CHAPTER IV.

Would the condition of the slaves in the United States be ameliorated
by emancipation, under existing circumstances?

Historical facts. Manumitted slaves. Vice among slaves and free
negroes--contrast,

The condition of Southern slaves made worse by emancipation. Under no
circumstances can the white man and the African meet on terms of
equality,

Nature has imposed an impassable barrier between the two races,

Physical conformation and mental characteristics. Indolence and
poverty of the African race,

Universal emancipation--effects and consequences,

CHAPTER V.

Evils of slavery. Is the happiness of individuals under all
circumstances diminished, by depriving them of liberty?

The demoralizing influence of slavery,

The liberality of Southern people,

Northern and Southern peculiarities. Slander and seduction,

Vices, North and South. Slave labor unproductive--the reason why?

CHAPTER VI.

The evils of slavery continued. The poorer class of whites, South,

The higher and lower classes, North and South. Politeness