INDEX. ABOLITION punished as felony in Slave States, 166. Absenteeism in West Indies, injurious effect of, 100. Abuse and injury to negroes tends to denude the North of laborers, 223. African race among us, character of, 203. African race among us, their probable position in the future, 203, 204. Aid and interference, what amount of these does the negro need? 226. Amalgamation, in worst form, offspring of slavery, 219. Amendment to Constitution regarding slavery and discrimination as to Anglo-Saxon race, characteristics of, 220. Anomalous state of things in Border Slave States, 184. Anomaly presented of men, civilized in one phase, semi-barbarous in an- Anti-slavery President, South declares the election of one just cause for Apprentice or slave, is either an article of merchandise? 138. Arbitrary power, a temptation always replete with danger, 114. Argentine Confederation, negro population of, 80, 81. Asientos, or slave-treaties, wording of, 32. Barbadoes, decrease of negro population in, 64. Barbarity, example of, in South Carolina, 115, 116. Bolivia, negro population of, 80. Border States, slavery modified in, 118. Brazil, negro population of, 71 to 76. Brazilian laws favoring emancipation, 76. British Government, agency of, in forcing slave-trade on its American colonies, 85. Calamity, the great, 28. Canada, strong prejudice of color there, 211. Cause, an influential, of variant results as to increase of negro population Causes of certain marvellous results, 95. Central America, negro population of, 77, 78. Character, Southern, effects of slavery upon it, 116. Characteristics of Anglo-Saxon and of African race, 220, 221. Characteristics of slave society, 117. Charity, negroes do not seck, 204, 205. Chastity, lack of, among slaves, 104, 109. Chastity of negress, in slavery, no protection for, 112, 113. Child-bearing, excessive, in Cotton States, cause of much suffering, 109. Child rescued from death, 44. Chili, negro population of, 80. Church property well managed by negroes, 208. Claims, or debts, of an enemy can be confiscated or annulled, 153, 154. Colonization, except by force, impossible, 209. Color, no discrimination as to, in a proposed amendment to the Constitu- Colored population, increase of, in United States, 89. Compensated emancipation in Border Slave States constitutional, 187, 192. Condition of national affairs when Emancipation Proclamation was issued, Congress, law of, regarding emancipation, 162. Congress sole judge of the means to effect a constitutional object, 188, 189. Constitution, under what phase does it recognize slavery? 137. Constitutional, now, to emancipate, 177. Constitutionality of emancipation in loyal Slave States, 183. Criminals sold as slaves, 42. Crucial test of civilization, the treatment of the lowly and feeble, 225. Dance, slaves compelled to, on slaver, by fear of lash, 51. Deaths by slave-trade in Africa, compared to number of slaves shipped, 60. Debt, or claim, due by inhabitant of United States to enemy of United Debt, or claim, of an enemy, may be cancelled by commander-in-chief, if Debts, or claims, of an enemy can be confiscated or annulled, 153, 154. Deed done and cannot be recalled, 177. De Tocqueville, his opinion on the future of the negro in United States, Difficulty, the great, before us should be broadly and boldly met, 185. Ecquador, negro population of, 79. Emancipation by European Powers, 173, 174. Emancipation does not injure slaveholders, 179. Emancipation, gradual, a failure, 227. Emancipation in insurrectionary States, 147. Emancipation in insurrectionary States, summary of arguments showing Emancipation in loyal Slave States, constitutionality of, 183. Emancipation justified on technical grounds as well as on general princi- INDEX. Emancipation one of the highest duties of Christian civilization, 192. Emancipation, President's action regarding, 157. Emancipation, question regarding right of, simply stated, 146. Emancipation, why not sooner declared by United States, 175. Enemies of United States, who are, in law, 147, 148. Enemies, property of, whether it may be taken, 149, 150. Enslave, to, not a constitutional power, 180. 241 Evidence, law as to negro, virtually gives impunity to murder and rape, 112, 113. Evil overruled for good, 176. Family relation, disintegration of, by slavery, 103. Fate of thirty-one millions of men, 61. Female slaves brutally punished for singing mournful songs of home, 52. Free speech, right of, can citizens of a republic abandon it? 168. Freedman, the sooner he learns to take care of himself the better, 228. Fugitive-slave clause in Constitution, its exact character and extent, 138, Fugitive-slave law, can it be maintained in the future? 169, 170. Gale, fatal effects of, on board slaver, 52. Gamblers, losing themselves, sold as slaves, 43. George III. issues order in Council, compelling slave-trade, 85. Grandeur of object commensurate with magnitude of remedy, 173. Great lesson, immediate in one case, delayed in another, 128. Hardships endured by slaves who hired their time: one example, 119, 120; Hayti, population of, 68, 69. Hiring their time, by slaves in Kentucky, 119. Home of a slave, 124. Humanity going astray, 29. Human rights, almost all, denied by slavery, 111, 112. Ill treatment of negro produces results similar to those of treason, 222, Importance, in a military point of view, that the negro be well treated, 223. Increase, rate of, among free colored population of North, small, 215. Inevitable, the, has great power over opinions, 199. Influence of the two races on each other, under a just system, will be bene- ficial, 221, 222. Interdictions of a slave code, 119. Inter-State slave-trade, from Border States, 118. Isolation of races to be avoided, 212. Jamaica, decrease of slave population in, 63, 94. Jefferson's opinion of the effect, upon the master, of slavery, 115. Labor and laborers degraded in Slave States, 22. Law of nations, spirit of, becoming milder, 134. Law of nations, we are bound by, 134. Law set at defiance is not thereby abrogated, 178. Laws, practical effect of, which give, apparently, equal protection, 112, 113. Life of slave apparently, but not really, protected by law, 112, 113. Loyal men, what proportion of, in Southern whites, 199. Loyalty of colored people, 198, 199. Lucayo islanders treacherously deceived, 27. Magnitude of interests involved cannot alter a just interpretation of the Manhood in negro soldiers, effect of, 196, 197. Marriage, legal, not permitted between slaves, 104. Marvellous disparity of results as to increase of negro population, 94. Maternal relation disregarded, as to slaves, 104, 105. McCulloch against State of Maryland, principles decided in that case, 189. Middle Passage, the, 48. Military strength, North and South, 160. Minister, testimony of a British, 46. Ministers, British, not sentimentalists, 45. Moderation, scruples of, must not degenerate into weakness, 135. Monarchy, Southerners express desire for it, 126, 127. Mortality among free negroes in Northern States, 214, 215, 216; table, 217. Mortality among slaves in port, 58. Mortality, comparative, in battle and on slavers, 59. Mortality, comparative, of whites and blacks, important table of, 217. Mortality in Africa, connected with slave-trade, 60. Mortality in United States greater last century than in present century, Mortality on Middle Passage, 54, 55, 57, 58. Mulattoes, intelligent, in Brazil, 76. Mulattoes not maintaining their numbers by natural increase in northern Mulattoes physically inferior to blacks or whites, 213, 214, 218. Murder of a slave by a white man not usually punishable by law, 112, 113. National affairs, condition of, when Emancipation Proclamation was issued, Negro, can he maintain himself as freedman? 203 to 208. Negro, ill treatment of, similar in results to treason, 222, 223. Negro not revengeful, 221. Negro race, the sum of our duty towards them, 228. Negro race, their future in this country, if justice prevail, will be associated Negro soldier should be, in all respects, treated as a white soldier, 225. Negro will emigrate South, when emancipation is assured, 210 to 212. New Granada, negro population of, 79. No absolutely hopeless condition in this world, 196. Obligation, additional, to see justice done to a race whom we have accepted Opportunity, that should be embraced, to atone for wrong, 225. "Other persons," in contradistinction to free persons, what that means, 144. Palmerston, Lord, his deduction, 47. Paraguay, negro population of, 81. Patriarchal feature in slavery, 110, 111. Peculiar institution, none remaining now in South, to be left intact, 180, People, the, of the United States, freed three millions of men, 177. Peru, negro population of, 80 Poor whites of the South. 125; a notable example of one, 126. Popular songs among negroes in Cotton States plaintive, despondent, and Population, increase of, arrested, 83. Population, negro, in Argentine Confederation, 80, 81. in West Indies, 66. 66 total in Central and South America, 81. total in Western Hemisphere, 82. Population, two causes for increase of, 107, 108. Porto Rico, negro population of, 67. Prayer, a form of, strictly adapted to nature and wants of man, 114. Prejudice as to color strong in Canada, 211, 212. Prejudice as to color, will it disappear? 212. President, had he the right to refrain from emancipating? 161. President, his action as to emancipation, 157. President responsible as commander-in-chief under law of nations, 156. Prince, a, for the South, 126, 127. Private property may lawfully be taken for public use, 186. Proclamation of Emancipation as valid after the war as during the war, Property of enemies, whether it may be taken, 149, 150. |