The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It

It is not our intention in this chapter to enter into an elaborate ethnographical essay, to establish peculiarities of difference, mental, moral, and physical, in the great fami...

Preliminary to our elucidation of what we conceive to be the most discreet, fair and feasible plan for the abolition of slavery, we propose to offer a few additional reasons why...

If it please the reader, let him forget all that we have written on the subject of slavery; if it accord with his inclination, let him ignore all that we may write hereafter. We...

Under this heading we propose to introduce the remainder of the more important statistics of the Free and of the Slave States;--especially those that relate to Commerce, Manufac...

It is with some degree of hesitation that we add a chapter on Southern Literature--not that the theme is inappropriate to this work; still less, that it is an unfruitful one; bu...

Our theme is a city--a great Southern importing, exporting, and manufacturing city, to be located at some point or port on the coast of the Carolinas, Georgia or Virginia, where...

Finding that we shall have to leave unsaid a great many things which we intended to say, and that we shall have to omit much valuable matter, the product of other pens than our...

In quest of arguments against slavery, we have perused the works of several eminent Christian writers of different denominations, and we now proceed to lay before the reader the...

To the true friends of freedom throughout the world, it is a pleasing thought, and one which, by being communicated to others, is well calculated to universalize the principles...

The best evidence that can be given of the enlightened patriotism and love of liberty in the Free States, is the fact that, at the Presidential election in 1856, they polled thi...

Every person who has read the Bible, and who has a proper understanding of its leading moral precepts, feels, in his own conscience, that it is the only original and complete an...

Opening Remarks--General Statistics of the Free and of the Slave States--Tonnage, Exports, and Imports--Products of Manufactures--Miles of Canals and Railroads in Operation-- Pu...

Value of Lands in the Free and in the Slave States--A few Plain Words addressed to Slaveholders--The Old Homestead--Area and Population of the several States, of the Territories...

Plea for a great Southern Commercial City--Importance of Cities in General--Letters from the Mayors of sundry American Cities, North and South--Wealth and Population of New-York...

The Voice of England--Opinions of Mansfield--Locke--Pitt-- Fox--Shakspeare--Cowper--Milton--Johnson--Price--Blackstone-- Coke--Hampden--Harrington--Fortescue--Brougham--The Voic...

Instances of Protracted Literary Labor--Comparative Insignificance of Periodical and General Literature in the Southern States--The New-York Tribune--Southern System of Publishi...

Progress and Prosperity of the North--Inertness and Imbecility of the South--The True Cause and the Remedy--Quantity and Value of the Agricultural Products of the two Sections--...

Why this Work was not Published in Baltimore--Legislative Acts Against Slavery--Testimony of a West India Planter to the Advantages of Free over Slave Labor--The True Friends of...

Introductory Remarks--Presbyterian Testimony--Albert Barnes-- Thomas Scott--General Assembly in 1818--Synod of Kentucky-- Episcopal Testimony--Bishop Horsley--Bishop Butler--Bis...

What the Fathers of the Republic thought of Slavery--Opinions of Washington--Jefferson--Madison--Monroe--Henry--Randolph-- Clay--Benton--Mason--McDowell--Iredell--Pinkney--Leigh...