CHAPTER II.

HOW SLAVERY CAN BE ABOLISHED 123

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, and of the District of Columbia--Number of Slaveholders in the United States--Abstract of the Author's Plan for the Abolition of Slavery--Official Power and Despotism of the Oligarchy-- Mal-treatment of the Non-slaveholding Whites--Liberal Slaveholders, and what may be expected of them--Slave-driving Democrats--Classification of Votes Polled at the Five Points Precinct in 1856--Parts played by the Republicans, Whigs, Democrats, and Know-Nothings during the last Presidential Campaign--How and why Slavery should be Abolished without direct Compensation to the Masters--The American Colonization Society--Emigration to Liberia--Ultimatum of the Non-slaveholding Whites.