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| [CHAPTER I.] |
| COMPARISON BETWEEN THE FREE AND THE SLAVE STATES | [11] |
| Progress and Prosperity of the North—Inertness and Imbecility of the South—The True Cause and the Remedy—Quantityand Value of the Agricultural Products of the two Sections—Important Statistics—Wealth, Revenue, and Expenditure of the severalStates—Sterling Extracts and General Remarks on Free and Slave Labor—The Immediate Abolition of Slavery the True Policy of the South. |
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| [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—Areaand Population of the several States, of the Territories, and of the District of Columbia—Number of Slaveholders in the United States—Abstractof the Author’s Plan for the Abolition of Slavery—Official Power and Despotism of the Oligarchy—Mal-treatment of theNon-slaveholding Whites—Liberal Slaveholders, and what may be expected of them—Slave-driving Democrats—Classificationof Votes Polled at the Five Points Precinct in 1856—Parts played by the Republicans, Whigs, Democrats, and Know-Nothings during the lastPresidential Campaign—How and why Slavery should be Abolished without direct Compensation to the Masters—The AmericanColonization Society—Emigration to Liberia—Ultimatum of the Non-slaveholding Whites. |
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| [CHAPTER III.] |
| SOUTHERN TESTIMONY AGAINST SLAVERY | [188] |
| What the Fathers of the Republic thought of Slavery—Opinions of Washington—Jefferson—Madison—Monroe—Henry—Randolph—Clay—Benton—Mason—McDowell— Iredell—Pinkney—Leigh—Marshall—Bolling—Chandler—Summers—Preston—Fremont—Blair—Maury—Birney. Delaware—McLane. Maryland—Martin. Virginia—Bill ofRights. North Carolina—Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence—JudgeRuffin. South Carolina—Extracts from the Writings of some of her more Sensible Sons. Georgia—Gen. Oglethorpe—Darien Resolutions. |
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| [CHAPTER IV.] |
| NORTHERN TESTIMONY | [235] |
| Opinions of Franklin—Hamilton—Jay—Adams—Webster—Clinton—Warren—ComplimentaryAllusions to Garrison, Greeley, Seward, Sumner, and others. |
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| [CHAPTER V.] |
| TESTIMONY OF THE NATIONS | [245] |
| The Voice of England—Opinions of Mansfield—Locke— Pitt—Fox—Shakspeare—Cowper—Milton—Johnson—Price—Blackstone—Coke—Hampden—Harrington—Fortescue—Brougham—The Voice of Ireland—Opinions ofBurke—Curran—Extract from the Dublin University Magazine for December, 1856—The Voice of Scotland—Opinionsof Beattie—Miller—Macknight—The Voice of France—Opinions of Lafayette—Montesquieu—LouisX—Buffon—Rousseau—Brissot—The Voice of Germany—Opinions of Grotius—Gœthe—Luther—Extractfrom the Letter of a living German writer to his Friends in this Country—The Voice of Italy—Opinions of Cicero—Lactantius—LeoX—The Voice of Greece—Opinions of Socrates—Aristotle—Polybius—Plato. |
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| [CHAPTER VI.] |
| TESTIMONY OF THE CHURCHES | [258] |
| Introductory Remarks—Presbyterian Testimony—Albert Barnes—Thomas Scott—General Assembly in 1818—Synodof Kentucky—Episcopal Testimony—Bishop Horsley—Bishop Butler—Bishop Porteus—John Jay—Anti-slaveryChurchman—Baptist Testimony—Rev. Mr. Brisbane, of South Carolina—Francis Wayland—Abraham Booth—Baptists ofVirginia in 1789—Methodist Testimony—John Wesley—Adam Clarke—Extracts from the Discipline for 1784, ’85 and’97—Catholic Testimony—Pope Gregory XVI—Pope Leo X—The Abbe Raynal—Henry Kemp. |
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| [CHAPTER VII.] |
| BIBLE TESTIMONY | [275] |
| The Bible an Anti-Slavery Text-book—Selected Precepts and Sayings of the Old Testament—Selected Precepts andSayings of the New Testament—Irrefragability of the Arguments here and elsewhere introduced against Slavery. |
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| [CHAPTER VIII.] |
| FREE FIGURES AND SLAVE | [281] |
| Opening Remarks—General Statistics of the Free and of the Slave States—Tonnage, Exports, and Imports—Productsof Manufactures—Miles of Canals and Railroads in Operation—Public Schools—Libraries other than Private—Newspapersand Periodicals—Illiterate White Adults—National Political Power of the two Sections—Popular Vote for President in1856—Patents Issued on New Inventions—Value of Church Property—Acts of Benevolence—Contributions for the Bible Cause, Tract Cause,Missionary Cause, and Colonization Cause—Table of deaths in the several States in 1850—Number of Free White Male Persons over fifteenyears of age engaged in Agriculture or other out-door Labor in the Slave States—Falsity of the Assertion that White Men cannot cultivateSouthern Soil—White Female Agriculturists in North Carolina—Number of Natives of the Slave States in the Free States, and of Natives ofthe Free States in the Slave States—Value of the Slaves at $400 per head—List of Presidents of the United States—Judges of the SupremeCourt—Secretaries of State—Presidents of the Senate—Speakers of the House—Postmasters General—Secretariesof the Interior—Secretaries of the Treasury—Secretaries of War—Secretaries of the Navy—Result of the PresidentialElections in the United States from 1796 to 1856—Aid for Kansas—Contributions for the Sufferers in Portsmouth, Va., during thePrevalence of the Yellow Fever in the Summer of 1855—Congressional Representation—Custom House Receipts—When the Old States were Settled andthe New Admitted into the Union—First European Settlements in America—Freedom and Slavery at the Fair—WhatFreedom Did—What Slavery Did—Average Value per Acre of Lands in the States of New York and North Carolina. |
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| [CHAPTER IX.] |
| COMMERCIAL CITIES—SOUTHERN COMMERCE | [331] |
| Plea for a great Southern Commercial City—Importance of Cities in General—Letters from the Mayors of sundry AmericanCities, North and South—Wealth and Population of New-York, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New-Orleans, Boston, St. Louis, Brooklyn, Charleston,Cincinnati, Louisville, Chicago, Richmond, Providence, Norfolk, Buffalo, Savannah, New-Bedford, Wilmington—Wealth Concentratedat Commercial Points—Boston and its Business—Progressive Growth of Cities—A Fleet of Merchantmen—Commerce ofNorfolk—Baltimore, Past, Present, and Future—Insignificance of Southern Commerce—Enslavementof Slaveholders to the Products of Northern Industry—Almost Utter Lack of Patriotism in Southern Merchants and Slaveholders. |
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| [CHAPTER X.] |
| FACTS AND ARGUMENTS BY THE WAYSIDE | [360] |
| Why this Work was not Published in Baltimore—Legislative Acts Against Slavery—Testimony of a West IndiaPlanter to the Advantages of Free over Slave Labor—The True Friends of the South—Slavery Thoughtful—Signs ofContrition—Progress of Freedom in the South—Anti-slavery Extracts from Southern Journals—A Right Feelingin the Right Quarter—The Illiterate Poor Whites of the South. |
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| [CHAPTER XI.] |
| SOUTHERN LITERATURE | [383] |
| Instances of Protracted Literary Labor—Comparative Insignificance of Periodical and General Literature in theSouthern States—The New-York Tribune—Southern System of Publishing—Book-making in America—The Businessof the Messrs. Harper—Southern Journals Struggling for Existence—Paucity of Southern Authors—Proportionof White Adults, over Twenty Years of Age, in each State, who cannot Read and Write, to the Whole White Population—SouthernAuthors Compelled to Seek Northern Publishers—Conclusion. |