the day. Against this I have nothing to say; it is all well enough for women to give the fictions of slavery ; men should give the facts. I trust that my friends and fellow-citizens of the South will read this book--nay, proud as any Southerner though I am, I entreat, I beg of them to do so. And as the work, considered with reference to its author's nativity, is a novelty—the South being my birth-place and my home, and my ancestry having resided there for more than a century—so I indulge the hope that its reception by my fellow-Southrons will also be novel; that is to say, that they will receive it, as it is offered, in a reasonable and friendly spirit, and that they will read it and reflect upon it as an honest and faithful endeavor to treat a subject of enormous import, without rancor or prejudice, by one who naturally comes within the pale of their own sympathies. An irrepressibly active desire to do something to elevate the South to an honorable and powerful position among the enlightened quarters of the globe, has been the great leading principle that has actuated me in the preparation of the present volume; and so well convinced am I that the plan which I have proposed is the only really practical one for achieving the desired end, that I earnestly hope to see it prosecuted with energy and zeal, until the Flag of Freedom shall wave triumphantly alike over the valleys of Virginia and the mounds of Mississippi. H. R. H. JUNE, 1857. ; men should CONTENTS. le South will s having resi- rally comes levate the principle COMPARISON BETWEEN THE FREE AND THE SLAVE STATES.. 11 Progress and Prosperity of the North-Inertness and Imbe- cility of the South-The True Cause and the Remedy- mediate Abolition of Slavery the True Policy of the South. HOW SLAVERY CAN BE ABOLISHED..... Value of Lands in the Free and in the Slave States—A few Plain Words addressed to Slaveholders—The Old Ilome- of the Non-slaveholding Whites. SOUTHERN TESTIMONY AGAINST SLAVERY. 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 The Voice of England--Opinions of Mansfield--Locko- Pitt-Fox--Shakspeare---Cowper---Milton--Johnson- Introductory Remarks--Presbyterian Testimony- Albert Barnes—Thomas Scott-General Assembly in 1818—Sy- nod of Kentucky-Episcopal Testimony-Bishop Horsley -Bishop Butler, Bishop Porteus-'John Jay-Anti- slavery Churchman-Baptist Testimony-Rev. Mr. Bris- bane, of South Carolina-Francis Wayland--Abraham Booth-Baptists of Virginia in 1789—Methodist Testi- mony-John Wesley-Adam Clarke--Extracts from the Discipline for 1784, '85 and '97—Catholic Testimony- The Bible an Anti-Slavery Text-book--Selected Precepts and Sayings of the Old Testament--Selected Precepts and Opening Remarks-General Statistics of the Free and of - National Political Power of the two Sections—Popular Vote for President in 1856-Patents Issued on New In- ventions—Value of Church Property-Acts of Benevo- lence-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 fifteen years of age engaged in Agriculture or other out-door Labor in the Slave States- Falsity of the Assertion that White Men cannot cultivate Southern Soil-White Female Agriculturists in North Carolina-Number of Natives of the Slave States in the Free States, and of Natives of the Free States in the Slave States-Value of the Slaves at $100 per head-List of Presidents of the United States-Judges of the Supreme Court-Secretaries of State-Presidents of the Senate Speakers of the House-Postmasters General Secretaries of the Interior-Secretaries of the Treasury--Secretaries of War-Secretaries of the Navy-Result of the Presiden- tial Elections in the United States from 1796 to 1856--Aid for Kansas--Contributions for the Sufferers in Ports- mouth, Va., during the Prevalence of the Yellow Fever in the Summer of 1855-Congressional Representation--Cus- tom House Receipts-When the Old States were Settled and the New Admitted into the Union-First European Set- tlements in America--Freedom and Slavery at the Fair - What Freedom Did-- What Slavery Did-Average Value COMMERCIAL CITIES-SOUTHERN COMMERCE... Plea for a great Southern Commercial City-Importance of Cities in General-Letters from the Mayors of sundry FACTS AND ARGUMENTS BY THE WAYSIDE.. Why this Work was not Published in Baltimore-Legisla- tive Acts Against Slavery - Testimony of a West India Planter to the Advantages of Free over Slave Labor– The True Friends of the South-Slavery Thoughtful—Signs of Contrition-Progress of Freedom in the South-Anti- slavery Extracts from Southern Journals—A Right Feel- Instances of Protracted Literary Labor-Comparative In- significance of Periodical and General Literature in the Southern States—The New-York Tribune -Southern Sys- tem of Publishing--Book-making in America-The Busi- ness of the Messrs. Iarrer--Southern Journals Struggling for Existence-Paucity of Southern Authors--Proportion of White Adults, over Twenty Years of Age, in each State, who cannot Read and Write, to the Whole White Popu- |