Chapter 16

The improbability of Mrs. Stowe's tale. Those who receive their impressions of Southern slavery from abolition papers, are incapable of expressing correct opinions on the subject,

Anecdote of a lawyer. Abolition editors,

Wonders and humbugs. Jo. Smith's Bible. Uncle Tom's Cabin and Spiritual Rappers. Mrs. Stowe's narrative untrue. Her story of Uncle Tom, &c. The improbability of her tale,

Eliza and her child. Maid servants in the South,

Southern men and 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,