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Title: The Right of American Slavery

Author: True Worthy Hoit

Release Date: May 1, 2008 [EBook #25277]

Language: English

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THE

RIGHT

OF

AMERICAN SLAVERY.

BY

T. W. HOIT,

OF THE ST. LOUIS LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION.

SOUTHERN AND WESTERN EDITION.

FIRST AND SECOND EDITIONS, 500,000 COPIES.

FOR SALE BY THE PRINCIPAL PUBLISHERS THROUGHOUT THE UNION.

ST. LOUIS, MO.:
PUBLISHED BY L. BUSHNELL.
1860.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860,

By T. W. HOIT,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States
in and for the District of Missouri.

BAKER & GODWIN, PRINTERS,
Printing-House Square, opposite City Hall,
NEW YORK.

PREFACE.

TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

_My Fellow Countrymen:_--Upon what manner of times have we fallen? Is
our supposed experiment of self-government about to prove a failure?
Are we so blind as not to see the abyss into which we are about to
plunge? Section hostile against section; States arrayed against the
Constitution; Churches sundered; the springs of intelligence poisoned
at their source; treason stalking at noonday; insurrection rife; the
equality of States and citizens denied, and derided; justice rebuked;
treachery applauded; traitors canonized; anarchy inaugurated; monarchy
calculating the end of republicanism; and the wheels of government
clogged by the minions of despotism! All this, my Countrymen, and you
passive, silent, sightless; reckless of