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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, by H. HOOKER, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

ADVERTISEMENT.

IT is the proud boast of abolition authors and senators, that the literature of the age is all on their side. There let its infidel philosophies and licentious levities forever remain. When its destinies shall have been fulfilled, that literature will be found to have done much to settle men's minds in submission to God's Providence. People will then see and feel strongly that it is due to justice and truth, that the forged drafts on their imaginations must be protested. This boasted literature represents the condition of the Southern slave as enormously wretched; and the true facts appearing will be received as evidences of the enormous wickedness of abolition literature. The time is approaching for the reaction to commence. This truthful little work is designed to accelerate it, by showing that the world abounds with worse evils far, than Southern slavery, even as falsely represented by its calumniators. If it do a little to arrest the progress of error, and to induce the public mind to think soberly as it ought to think, the object of the writer will be attained.

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TABULAR VIEW.

• CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY TABLE TALK.
  Good cometh out of evil—Family party—Irish girl—The doctor—DIALOGUE—Women of England—Frightful results—Reach not our South—Mrs. Dickens—Oliver Twist and poor Joe—Female crusade—Preposterous views—Study of ignorance—Explained—The combatants—Great Britain on the fence—British Parliament—Envy—British fame and gold—The noparty party. 10
• CHAPTER II. TO THE WOMEN OF ENGLAND, &c.
  Beguiled into error—Strange mistakes—Our country woman—NEW YORK OBSERVER—Infidel book—Of no authority—Why popular—Corrupt and profligate—Indecent and seditious—Bitter and hypocritical. 23
• CHAPTER III. TABLEAUX VIVANTS—PANORAMA.
  Contradictory facts—True and false—Caricature—Voltaire and the philanthropist—Revolution—Absurdity—Malignant calumny—Southern laws—Shadow of law—Too shocking—Laws of N. England—Arguments—Madness of British nobility—Saints developed from slaves—Results not frightful. 32
• CHAPTER IV. A DEEPER DEEP."
  Slavery not inconsistent with God's word—"HELPS TO READING THE BIBLE"—Philemon—Paley—Slave families not so often as free families broken up—Not denied the "sanctity of marriage"—Sound counsel. 44
• CHAPTER V. MEMORY OF THE SOUTH.
  Shipboard—A miserable comfort—Lewis' choice—The English chartists—COMFORTS OF SLAVES—No condition without evils. 49
• CHAPTER VI. CHARLESTON.
  Servants—Auction sale—Slaves' religious privileges—Spiritual freedom. 58
• CHAPTER VII. PASSAGE TO ST. AUGUSTINE.
  Meteoric shower—Glorious sunrise—Arrival—St. Augustine harbor—Happy population—Negroes most happy—The work—My Cicerone—PLAZA—Children—Gardens and orange groves—Negroes never seem to work hard—A free negro—THE GREAT TEACHER—Great philosophers—PLANTATION NEGROES luxuriating—Christmas. 62
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• CHAPTER VIII. THE WEDDING—CHRISTIAN SLAVES—SLAVERY A MISSIONARY INSTITUTION.
  Tropical scenery—Reception—Negroes delighted— Mariage Marriage felicitations—A visit—Baptisms—Slaves sometimes heathens when their masters are—Striking coincidence—White savages—If slavery makes men brutes, then our southern negroes are not slaves—Slavery has Christianized millions of heathen. 70
• CHAPTER IX. PLEASURES OF SLAVERY.
  Not a paradox—Why run away—Why joyous—Not thoughtless—Boating party—Pleasant ride—Weedmans—Tides—Scenery Improvisation—A case—The Dr.—Compensation—Milton—Horace—Homer—Musical slaves—The Secret out. 79
• CHAPTER X. DRAYTON ISLAND.
  Another phase of negro happiness—Tropical plants—Bird music—Paroquets—Reception—Paradise of a home—Happiness of a lowly station—The good time coming—Lessons of wisdom—GEORGE, the rich negro who would not be more free—George's story—The good mistress—Free negroes. 90
• CHAPTER XI. ADDRESSED TO ALL SUCH PERSONS AS DESIRE TO KNOW WHAT ARE THE REAL MERITS OF THE QUESTION OF NEGRO SLAVERY.
  Condition in Africa—Providence—The negro Sunday School—Cudjo—African town—Capture—First sight of white man—Thankfulness. 97
• CHAPTER XII. SAVAGE CONDITION OF AFRICA.
  Not the effect of foreign slave trade—Native slave trade—Mungo Park—Lander—English missionary in S. Africa—ZOOLUS OF EASTERN AFRICA—Had never seen a white person—Boats unknown—Chaka the Great—The great murderer—Feast of blood—Details—What makes a savage happy—Grief a crime—Human sacrifices—Legree a tame beast compared with an African King. 105
• CHAPTER XIII. SOUTHERN NEGRO HAPPINESS IN CHILDHOOD AND AGE.
  Children not always happy—Hard lessons—The little boy tied—Miseries of memory—A father—Slaves in Yankee-land—An unhappy child—Fear of death—A school—Little negroes—Sunday morning—Happy tenants—Ideal—Gov. Seymour—Old King—Hospital—The slaves' birthright better secured than ours—Old slaves—Happy old age—Drama—SCENE FIRST—Master and man—SCENE SECOND—King declines a ride. 116
• CHAPTER XIV. PREJUDICES OF EDUCATION, AN APOLOGY FOR ABOLITIONISTS.
  The conscientious misled—Ancient slavery—Capital punishment—Slavery in the abstract—Rights of slaves—Despotic power—Hortensius—Cicero—Exposure—Roman satirists—The chained janitor—Cato the censor—Progress—Poor of New England—Wilberforce—Palmerston—Jeffries—Henry Eighth—James Second, &c.—Victoria. 129
• CHAPTER XV. LORD PALMERSTON AND HON. E. EVERETT.
  Cuba—Jamaica—Free labor cheapest—Why?—Contented peasantries—Slaves not necessarily il-treated—Infidelity—Slaves necessarily well-treated—MR. EVERETT'S SPEECH—Apology—Native laws of Africa—A mistake—Egyptians—Savage negroes in the neighborhood of Liberia NOT SAVAGES says Mr. E.—Definition of SAVAGE—Return of slaves to their native tribes!—Mungo Park—Mohamedan Lawyers—An English Secretary. 137
• CHAPTER XVI. BRITISH SLAVERY.
  Work for English ladies—D'Israeli—English people worse off than slaves—Vicious, degraded, starving—How they became so—No conception of religion or morality—Atheistic hunger—Their code of morals —"YEAST A PROBLEM"—Colonial Secretary—Britain's slaves in the East—VICTORIA a slave holder—Asiatic Journal—Sepoys—Separations—Millions of slaves in Hindostan—British West Indies—Slaves in fact if not in name—The present and the past—M. G. Lewis—Mrs. Carmichael—Mr. Calhoun. 145
• CHAPTER XVII. THE EARL OF CARLISLE.
  Uncle Pat's Irish cabin—Law in Ireland protects property but not life—State of the poor in Ireland—Criminality only resource—Many perish—Worse than death in a ditch!—Law and the army on the side of oppression—Emigrants—Ship fever—Children in mines—Pupils of crime—Laws "so arranged." 154
• CHAPTER XVIII. ERRORS OF ARROGANCE AND IGNORANCE—THE BRITISH COURT PRESS.
  European ignorance of our country—Professions of servility—An abolition argument—Representation—Rights of the poor a fiction—English sacrifices to abolish slavery—Taxed labor—Kidnapping—Mr. Benton's speech—The News too happy—Our Constitution—British Magna Charta—The London Shipping Gazette—The Monroe doctrine—"American piracy." 165
• CHAPTER XIX. DEDICATED TO THE QUAKERS OF PHILADELPHIA.
  Their fundamental principles—THE PATTERN MAN—Doing the nearest good first—Five points—The Quaker city—Better things hoped of it—Not an exception—Grand Inquest—Quaker gentleman at depot—Friends not novel readers—Taciturn man—"Mysteries and miseries"—Horrible details—Baker street—Who are most criminal?—Bulletin—Death by starvation—A warning—Homeless thousands—Lodged in filth—15 streets, courts and alleys crowded with dens of misery. 176
• CHAPTER XX. EMANCIPATION.
  Manslayers—Sad story—The students—Emancipated negroes — page: 8 (Table of Contents) -9[View Page 8 (Table of Contents) -9]Switch to Image ModeCLOSE Page 8 (Table of Contents) -9 Mock philanthropy—Anti-slavery society—Peter Williams—Peter's father—Philanthropy of abolitionism—NORTHERN EMANCIPATION—Homicide—Good intentions—Extinction of the race. 198
• CHAPTER XXI. SLAVERY OF THE POOR ABOLISHED ONLY IN THE SOUTH.
  In the North only, man works for nothing. The free man dies of starvation—The slave never—Famines—Matthew Carey and the sewing women—Free blacks in N. York—Pauperism in N. Y.—Sources—Ecclesiastical abolitionism—Mohamedan slaves—British treachery—A modest man—Cold steel—The smaller evil. 210
• CHAPTER XXII. NEW ENGLAND.
  Abolition spirit—Channing—Sumner—Negro champions—N. England free negroes—Prison discipline Society—Dr. Wayland—Insanity and idiocy—Greely—A high law—Civilization—Knowledge—Reading—Climate—Maddening influence of fanaticism—White slaves—Quaker maid—Whittier—Furious declamation—Barnes—Bible-denouncers—Quakers—Congressional oracle. 228
• CHAPTER XXIII. "DESPERATE ROW."
  The North in danger—Oppression—Caution—Feudal rights—Enlargement of asylums—Avarice and ambition enlarging the demented classes. 247
• CHAPTER XXIV. SPIRITUAL STATE AND PRIVILEGES OF SOUTHERN SLAVES.
  Forbearance—Pious slaves—Gratitude—Home churches—Spiritual freedom—Religious immunities—Negro children—Communion—The inheritance—The model master—Simplicity of the negro's faith—Foolish preaching—Sunday School boy—Importance of instruction—Prospects for the slave—A female slave—Her funeral—Dr. Thornwell—Robert Hall—Noble enterprise. 250
• CHAPTER XXV. A CHAPTER OF LACONICS.
  SUGGESTIVE HISTORY—Greeks and Romans conquered Canaan—Hannibal's acknowledgment—Facts, prophecies, Providence—THE EARLY CHURCH CUSTOM—A small share—Alton Locke—English miserables—Preference of slavery—Mr. Kingsley—MADAM PFEIFFER—HUNGER THE GREAT SOURCE OF CRIME—Lord Brougham—Cobbett—Coleridge—The Model master in Alabama—A PET—The maiden lady's happy pet—DIGNIFIED MODERATION—A Northern Divine encourages and denounces the "cold steel party"—A PLEASANT RECOLLECTION—Peter taught to read the Bible—APHORISM WITH A COMMENT—An abolitionist happy—Ohio specimen—A SEDITIONARY—Wendell Phillips—Mrs. Stowe—Her sense of duty—Clay, Webster and Cass—ABOLITION PERVERSION OF SCRIPTURE—Sometimes ludicrous—The Scotch mother and her son. 261