A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, An Essay on Slavery

by A. Woodward

• Abolition editors. Their statements false,
• Letter writers travel South—Misrepresentations,
• Northern men mislead by abolition papers, and Uncle Tom's Cabin,
• Sectional hatred is engendered thereby, and the Union endangered. Slavery agitation has retarded emancipation, riveted the chains of slavery, and inflicted injury on masters and servants,
• The revolutionary designs and tendencies of abolitionism,
• The Union based on the slavery compromise,
• Those who invade the rights of the South, are guilty of not only a civil, but also of a moral trespass. The primitive church was subordinate to the civil authorities. Language of Christ and his Apostles,
• Contrast between Christ and his Apostles, and the apostles of modern reform,

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• Is universal emancipation safe or practicable? What would be the consequences?
• Idleness, vagrancy and crime, the fruits of emancipation,
• There is not a free negro in the limits of the United States,
• Universal prejudice against the African race. The African no where allowed the ordinary privileges of the white man,
• Free negroes of Baltimore—their appeal to the people of the United States. Judge Blackford. Dr. Miller,
• Slavery agitation of foreign origin. Slavery not extinct in the British dominions. The English poor,
• White slavery and negro slavery,
• The condition of African slaves in the United States better than the mass of European laborers. Slavery exists in every part of the British dominions,
• British Asiatic Journal. Dr. Bowering. Duke of Wellington. Sir Robert Peel and the London Times,
• Madame Stowe has caricatured, slandered and misrepresented her country, to please the English people. She is invited to England.
• Reflections. The wreck of nations. Cardinal virtues. Bigotry and fanaticism. Advice to ladies,

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• Declaration of an English nobleman. Destruction of the government of the United States, by the Sovereigns of Europe. Their allies, aiders and abettors in the United States. Uncle Tom's Cabin. Mrs. Stowe in England,
• Isms and Schisms. Tomism in England and America,
• England a nation of murderers, thieves, and robbers. Their hypocrisy,
• Mrs. Stowe in England. Their object in fanning the flame of discord among us,
• John Bull. Mrs. Stowe and her coadjutors. Graham's Magazine,

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• Popularity of Uncle Tom's Cabin in England and America. Its designs, tendencies, injustice, falsehood, &c.
• The Bible. Cupidity and hypocrisy,
• The "inward man." Self deception,
• Mrs. Stowe's object in writing her book,
• Its reception. The conclusion of the whole matter. Yankee ingenuity. Hypocrisy,
• "Gain is godliness," and their pretended godliness is all for gain. English emissaries and abolition editors. Motives that prompt the abolition party to action. Sympathy for the African race a mere pretense, or affectation of superior sanctity,
• Every man is conscious that he ought to be a Christian, therefore every man wishes to be esteemed such. Affected piety. Bible Christianity,
• England's inconsistency. John Bull a bigoted, meddlesome old hypocrite. "Charity begins at home." Treatment of free negroes North, by abolitionists,

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• Harsh epithets applied to Southern slaveholders by abolitionists,
• The Sacred Record. God alone was competent to decide what was best for masters and servants, individuals and nations. Every departure from the Sacred Oracles is practical infidelity,
• The Bible alone is a safe and sure guide. Nothing can mitigate the evils of slavery, but a rigid observance of its precepts on the part of masters and servants,
• The African derives no benefit from emancipation if he remain among us. Mrs. Stowe would have us substitute greater evils for lesser—"out of the frying pan into the fire." She has told a wondrous story,
• Uncle Tom's Cabin. Free negroes' tales. Negro novels, village gossip, busy-bodies, idlers, loafers and liars,
• Slavery is not an evil under all circumstances. It would have proved a blessing to the slaves, if masters and servants had complied with the requisitions of the Bible. None so much to blame as abolitionists. The condition of an individual may be such, that he is fit for nothing but a slave,
• The evil consists in the incompetence of the individual, and not in that condition or station in life, to which his incompetency subjects him. Hence, the evils of slavery have their origin in its abuses,
• The African in his native state. Negroes transported to the United States. Slavery in Africa. Captives taken in war. Cruelty of negro overseers. Ignorant men hard masters. African masters,
• One portion of the African race are slaves to another—the larger portion slaves. American and African slavery,
• The slaves of the South have superior religions advantages. Southern clergy,

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