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

by A. Woodward

• Is it the duty of American slaveholders to liberate their slaves? The consequences of universal emancipation,
• Crime committed by free negroes. Negro convicts, North. Prison system. Pauper expenditures. Crime among free negroes, North and South, contrasted,
• The religious condition of the African race, North and South, contrasted. Why is it, that the free blacks, North, derive so little benefit from the Christian ministry?
• The argument mainly relied on, to prove the sinfulness of American slavery. Every institution subject to abuse,
• White and black concubines. Illegitimate children,

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[ CHAPTER I.]

• Which side of the question are you on, Sir?
• Ultraists North and South. Writers who disseminate erroneous views. Uncle Tom's Cabin a work of that class,
• The Author of our existence made us to differ mentally and physically,
• We all look through different glasses, some view objects through a microscope—exaggeration is their forte. Their minds were cast in a fictitious mould,
• It is a dire calamity that this class of writers have taken hold of the subject of slavery,
• Slavery an evil—but what shall we do with it? Sympathy for the African race, the object of Mrs. Stowe's book—right and proper, if properly directed, but blindfold sympathy not likely to result in any good,
• Slaves of the South proper objects of sympathy—so are their masters. Uncle Tom's Cabin, a gross misrepresentation,
• Is it right for Mrs. Stowe to present slaveholders, en masse, to the whole civilized world, as a set of hell-deserving barbarians?
• No good can result from misrepresentation. "The wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God." Mrs. Stowe may inculcate resistance to the laws of her country, but so did not Christ and his Apostles,
• What atrocious crimes have been perpetrated in the name of liberty! "Show me the company you keep, and I will tell you who you are,"
• Are there no laws to protect slaves? The Southern slave is not amenable to the civil laws for his conduct, except in a qualified sense,
• The punishment of slaves is much more lenient than the punishment of white men for similar crimes. Transportation of slaves for crime,
• Ah! don't touch my purse! Your sympathies never leak out in that way. Slaveholders called murderers, &c.,
• White and black slavery. Hunger and cold are hard masters—worse than Southern slaveholders. Condition of free negroes, North. Universal prejudice against negroes—their freedom but nominal, &c.

[ CHAPTER II.]

• The improbability of Mrs. Stowe's tale. Those who receive their impressions of Southern slavery from abolition papers, are incapable of expressing correct opinions on the subject,
• Anecdote of a lawyer. Abolition editors,
• Wonders and humbugs. Jo. Smith's Bible. Uncle Tom's Cabin and Spiritual Rappers. Mrs. Stowe's narrative untrue. Her story of Uncle Tom, &c. The improbability of her tale,
• Eliza and her child. Maid servants in the South,
• Southern men and their wives. Eliza flees precipitately across the river on floating fragments of ice,
• Mrs. Stowe has calumniated her country. The moral influence of the great American Republic is destroyed,
• Clerical knaves and fools. N. England infidelity,
• My country is my pride, my country is my boast, my country is my all. We listen with pleasure to a recital of the vices of our neighbors,

[ CHAPTER III.]

• Abolition excitement in the North, thirty-five years ago. Discussion, public sentiment, and treatment of Southern slaves, previous to that time,
• The effects of anti-slavery excitement in the North, on the South. Discussion cut off—the enactment of rigid laws, &c. Benjamin Lundy,
• Why was it, that the abolition excitement in the North produced such a panic in the South? Shocking doctrines and incendiary publications,
• Who was it that crashed in embryo the reform that was in progress thirty-five years ago? Henry Clay's Letter,
• A legitimate conclusion. The object of abolitionists, dissolution of the Union, civil war, &c.
• The tendency and spirit of abolitionism. A confederacy, North and South,
• The whig and the democratic parties,
• Col. Benton and Gen. Cass. Parties and party spirit,
• Hale, Julian and Giddings. Ambition. A summary of my leading objections to abolitionism,
• Negro stealing a virtue. Detroit Free Press,
• Tom Corwin and the abolitionists,

[ CHAPTER IV.]

• Would the condition of the slaves in the United States be ameliorated by emancipation, under existing circumstances?
• Historical facts. Manumitted slaves. Vice among slaves and free negroes—contrast,
• The condition of Southern slaves made worse by emancipation. Under no circumstances can the white man and the African meet on terms of equality,
• Nature has imposed an impassable barrier between the two races,
• Physical conformation and mental characteristics. Indolence and poverty of the African race,
• Universal emancipation—effects and consequences,