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Show 4 CONTENTS. ... o. SEaT. X.-The tenth, eleventh, twelfth, .thirteenth, fou:teentb, fifteenth, and sixteenth fo.ll~Cies of t~e Abohtionisti or his seven arguments aga.mst the nght of a. man to hold property in his fellow-man .. ········::····:··· 86 XI -The seventeenth fallacy of the Aboht.torust; SE;;,· the Argument from the Declaration of Independence 102 CIIAPTER III Tn& ARGUMENT FROM THE ScRlPTUB.E.S. ,,,,,, ......... ,,,,,,,,, 188 SECT. I.-The Argument from the Old Testament .......... 188 SEOT. !I.-The Argument from the New Testament ....... 167 CHAPTER IV. T ARGUMENT FROM THE PUBLIC Goon .................. '''"' 226 u m SEOT. I.-The Question ... ···························:····· ....... .. SEer. II.-Emancipation in the Dritish Colon~es.:"''"~~ 229 SECT. III.-The manner in which Emancipation ruined the British Colonies ............ ········• ......... ','"" 257 SECT. rv.-Tbe great benefit supposed, by American Abolitionists, to result to the freed Negroes from the British Act of Emo.ncipation ................................... 268 S V -The Consequences of Abolition to the South .. 284 s:~:~ vi.-Elevation of the Blacks by Southern Slavery. 292 CHAPTER V. TnJ: FuotTIV:£ SLAVIil LAw .................. ...................... :. 801 S I -Mr Seward's Attack on the Constitution of his E~:~n~ry .... : ........................ , .......................... ·:"" 802 SECT. JI.-Tbe Attack of Mr. Sumner on the Constitu-tion of his Country .................... ........... : ................ 311 SECT. III.-The Right of Trial by Jlll'y not 1mp!W'cd bf 3 the Fugitive Sla:ve La.w ......................................... 85 S~::cT. IV. -The Duty of the Citizen in regard to the 374 Constitution of the United States ................... ········• INTRODUCTION. Tars work has, for the most pnrt, been thought out for several years, and various portions of it reduced to writing. Though we have long cherished the design of preparing it for the press, yet other engagements, conspiring with a spirit of procrastination, have hitherto induced us to defer the execution of this design. Nor should we have prosecuted it, ns we have done, during a large portion of our 1n8t summer vacation, and the leisure moments of the first two months of the present session of the University, but for the solicitation of two intelligent and highly.csteemed friends. In submitting the work, as it now is, to the judg· ment of the truth.Joviog and impartial reader, we beg leave to offer one or two preliminary remarks. We have deemed it wise and proper to notice only the more decent, respectable, and celebrated among the Abolitionist~~! of the North. Those ecur. ,. |