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Of direct anti-Slavery efforts, including ecclesiastical action, from the
period of the Revolution to the close of the last century; and the
abolition of Slavery in the Northern States..
CHAPTER XI.
Decline of the spirit of Liberty, and growth of Slavery, since the Re-
volution; their causes and early manifestations..
CHAPTER XII.
91
118
Position of the American Churches respecting Slavery, during the first
half of the Nineteenth Century.-I. Methodist Episcopal Church. 143
CHAPTER XIII.
Position of the American Churches, &c. (continued).-II. The Pres-
byterian Church..........
CHAPTER XIV.
Position of the American Churches, &c. (continued).-III. Con-
gregationalists..
CHAPTER XV.
151
163
Position of the American Churches, &c. (continued).-IV. Baptists. 183
CHAPTER XVI.
Position of the American Churches, &c. (continued).-V. The
Protestant Episcopal Church.....
CHAPTER XVII.
Position of the American Churches, &c. (continued).-VI. Other
Sects-General view
191
195
CHAPTER XVIII.
Position of the American Churches, &c. (continued).-VII. Volun-
tary Associations connected with several Sects-Conclusion
202
CHAPTER XIX.
Action of the Federal Government, to the close of the first Presiden-
tial Administration....
220
CHAPTER XX.
Subsequent action of the Federal Government-Colored people-Slave
territory-New Slave States-Federal District...
237
CHAPTER XXI.
Further action of the Federal Government-American Slave Trade-
African Slave Trade....
247
Further action of the Federal Government-Continued subserviency
of the national diplomacy to the demands of the Slaveholders..... 263
CHAPTER XXIII.
Further action of the Federal Government-Hayti-Florida-Sem-
inole War
CHAPTER XXIV.
268
Further action of the Federal Government-Acquisition of Texas... 272
CHAPTER XXV.
Conspiracy for the conquest of Mexico, and the disrupture of the
Federal Union in 1806--Controlling power of the Conspirators over
the Federal Judiciary
CHAPTER XXVI.
Further action of the Federal Government-The war with Mexico-
Acquisition of California, New Mexico, and Utah
CHAPTER XXVII.
280
287
Further action of the Federal Government-Result of the Conquest
of California-Its admission as a Free State-"The Compromise." 306
CHAPTER XXVIII.
Further action of the Federal Government-General policy, and
political economy, controlled by Slavery..
319
The present Anti-Slavery Agitation in America-Its causes, origin, and
character.
CHAPTER XXXIII.
382
Opposition to Abolitionists-Its elements-Its nature and methods ... 400
CHAPTER XXXIV.
Attempts to silence the discussion by authority-State Legislatures-
Federal Executive-U. S. Mails--"Gag" Rules in Congress-
Right of petition
408
Of the elements and occasions of division among Abolitionists....... 447
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
Divisions in 1839-40..
CHAPTER XXXIX.
Organized political action-Liberty party-Liberty League-Free Soil
party
457
468
CHAPTER XL.
Anti-Slavery Church agitation-New Anti-Slavery Churches and Mis-
sionary bodies...
487
CHAPTER XLI.
The Anti-Slavery Societies-Their relation to political and Church
action....
509
CHAPTER XLII.
The American Anti-Slavery Society-Its further course on political
action......
517
CHAPTER XLIII.
Second revolution in the position and policy of the American Anti-
Slavery Society in 1844.
CHAPTER XLIV.
Further difficulties in the American Anti-Slavery Society
CHAPTER XLV.
Political course of the American Anti-Slavery Society, since its revo-
lution of 1844..
CHAPTER XLVI.
Course of Mr. Garrison and the American Anti-Slavery Society and
its members, since the division of 1840, in respect to Anti-Slavery
Church action..
CHAPTER XLVII.
General estimate of the American Anti-Slavery Society and its labors,
since 1840....
526
529
532
541
555
CHAPTER XLVIII.
Review of these divisions and their results
CHAPTER XLIX.
PAGE.
559
Different views of the Constitution and of the legality of Slavery.... 563
CHAPTER L.
The Slavery question in America-and the Crisis-What shall be done? 583