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,