The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It
THE
IMPENDING CRISIS
THE SOUTH:
HOW TO MEET IT.
HINTON ROWAN HELPER,
OF NORTH CAROLINA.
14TH THOUSAND.
NEW YORK: A. B. BURDICK, PUBLISHER, No. 8 SPRUCE STREET. 1859.
Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1857, by HINTON ROWAN HELPER, In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.
J. J. Reed, Printer and Stereotyper, 43 Centre Street.
To HENRY M. WILLIS, OF CALIFORNIA, FORMERLY OF MARYLAND, WOODFORD C. HOLMAN, OF OREGON, FORMERLY OF KENTUCKY, MATTHEW K. SMITH, OF WASHINGTON TERRITORY, FORMERLY OF VIRGINIA, AND TO THE NON-SLAVEHOLDING WHITES OF THE SOUTH GENERALLY, WHETHER AT HOME OR ABROAD THIS WORK IS MOST CORDIALLY DEDICATED BY THEIR SINCERE FRIEND AND FELLOW-CITIZEN, THE AUTHOR.
Hinton Rowan Helper
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PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
COMPARISON BETWEEN THE FREE AND THE SLAVE STATES.
HOW SLAVERY CAN BE ABOLISHED.
SOUTHERN TESTIMONY AGAINST SLAVERY.
NORTHERN TESTIMONY.
TESTIMONY OF THE NATIONS.
TESTIMONY OF THE CHURCHES.
BIBLE TESTIMONY.
FREE FIGURES AND SLAVE.
COMMERCIAL CITIES—SOUTHERN COMMERCE.
FACTS AND ARGUMENTS BY THE WAYSIDE.
SOUTHERN LITERATURE.
GENERAL INDEX.