A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin by A. Woodward

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The revolutionary designs and tendencies of abolitionism,

The Union based on the slavery compromise,

Those who invade the rights of the South, are guilty of not only a
civil, but also of a moral trespass. The primitive church was
subordinate to the civil authorities. Language of Christ and his
Apostles,

Contrast between Christ and his Apostles, and the apostles of modern
reform,

SECTION II.

Is universal emancipation safe or practicable? What would be the
consequences?

Idleness, vagrancy and crime, the fruits of emancipation,

There is not a free negro in the limits of the United States,

Universal prejudice against the African race. The African no where
allowed the ordinary privileges of the white man,

Free negroes of Baltimore--their appeal to the people of the United
States. Judge Blackford. Dr. Miller,

Slavery agitation of foreign origin. Slavery not extinct in the
British dominions. The English poor,

White slavery and negro slavery,

The condition of African slaves in the United States better than the
mass of European laborers. Slavery exists in every part of the British
dominions,

British Asiatic Journal. Dr. Bowering. Duke of Wellington. Sir Robert
Peel and the London Times,

Madame Stowe has caricatured, slandered and misrepresented her
country, to please the English people. She is invited to England.

Reflections. The wreck of nations. Cardinal virtues. Bigotry and
fanaticism. Advice to ladies,

SECTION III.

Declaration of an English nobleman. Destruction of the government of
the United States, by the Sovereigns of Europe. Their allies, aiders
and abettors in the United States. Uncle Tom's Cabin. Mrs. Stowe in
England,

_Isms and Schisms. Tomism_ in England and America,

England a nation of murderers, thieves, and robbers. Their hypocrisy,

Mrs. Stowe in England. Their object in fanning the flame of discord
among us,

John Bull. Mrs. Stowe and her coadjutors. Graham's Magazine,

SECTION IV.

Popularity of Uncle Tom's Cabin in England and America. Its designs,
tendencies, injustice, falsehood, &c.

The Bible. Cupidity and hypocrisy,

The "inward man." Self deception,

Mrs. Stowe's object in writing her book,

Its reception. The conclusion of the whole matter. Yankee ingenuity.
Hypocrisy,

"Gain is godliness," and their pretended godliness is all for gain.
English emissaries and abolition editors. Motives that prompt the
abolition party to action. Sympathy for the African race a mere
pretense, or affectation of superior sanctity,

Every man is conscious that he ought to be a Christian, therefore
every man wishes to be esteemed such. Affected piety. Bible
Christianity,

England's inconsistency. John Bull a bigoted, meddlesome old
hypocrite. "Charity begins at home." Treatment of free negroes North,
by abolitionists,

SECTION V.

Harsh epithets applied to Southern slaveholders by abolitionists,

The Sacred Record. God alone was competent to decide what was best for
masters and servants, individuals and nations. Every departure from
the Sacred Oracles is practical infidelity,

The Bible alone is a safe and sure guide. Nothing can mitigate the
evils of slavery, but a rigid observance of its precepts on the part
of masters and servants,

The African derives no benefit from emancipation if he remain among
us. Mrs. Stowe would have us substitute greater evils for lesser--"out
of the frying pan into the fire." She has told a wondrous story,

Uncle Tom's Cabin. Free negroes' tales. Negro novels, village gossip,
busy-bodies, idlers, loafers and liars,

Slavery is not an evil under all circumstances. It would have proved a
blessing to the slaves, if masters and servants had complied with the
requisitions of the Bible. None so much to blame as abolitionists. The
condition of an individual may be such, that he is fit for nothing but
a slave,

The evil consists in the incompetence of the individual, and not in
that condition or station in life, to which his incompetency subjects
him. Hence, the evils of slavery have their origin in its abuses,

The African in his native state. Negroes transported to the United
States. Slavery in Africa. Captives taken in war. Cruelty of negro
overseers. Ignorant men hard masters. African masters,

One portion of the African race are slaves to another--the larger
portion slaves. American and African slavery,

The slaves of the South have superior religions advantages. Southern
clergy,

SECTION VI.

Is it the duty of American slaveholders to liberate their slaves? The
consequences of universal emancipation,

Crime committed by free negroes. Negro convicts, North. Prison system.
Pauper expenditures. Crime among free negroes, North and South,
contrasted,

The religious condition of the African race, North and South,
contrasted. Why is it, that the free blacks, North, derive so little
benefit from the Christian ministry?

The argument mainly relied on, to prove the sinfulness of American
slavery. Every institution subject to abuse,

White and black concubines. Illegitimate children,

CHAPTER I.

Which side of the question are you on, Sir?

Ultraists North and South. Writers who disseminate erroneous views.
Uncle Tom's Cabin a work of that class,

The Author of our existence made us to differ mentally and physically,

We all look through different glasses, some view objects through a
microscope--exaggeration is their _forte_. Their minds were cast in a
fictitious mould,

It is a dire calamity that this class of writers have taken hold of
the subject of slavery,

Slavery an evil--but what shall we do with it? Sympathy for the
African race, the object of Mrs. Stowe's book--right and proper, if
properly directed, but blindfold sympathy not likely to result in any
good,

Slaves of the South proper objects of sympathy--so are their masters.
Uncle Tom's Cabin, a gross misrepresentation,

Is it right for Mrs. Stowe to present slaveholders, _en masse_, to the
whole civilized world, as a set of hell-deserving barbarians?

No good can result from misrepresentation. "The wrath of man worketh
not the righteousness of God." Mrs. Stowe may inculcate resistance to
the laws of her country, but so did not Christ and his Apostles,

What atrocious crimes have been perpetrated in the name of liberty!
"Show me the company you keep, and I will tell you who you are,"

Are there no laws to protect slaves? The Southern slave is not
amenable to the civil laws for his conduct, except in a qualified
sense,

The punishment of slaves is much more lenient than the punishment of
white men for similar crimes. Transportation of slaves for crime,

Ah! don't touch my purse! Your sympathies never leak out in that way.
Slaveholders called murderers, &c.,

White and black slavery. Hunger and cold are hard _masters_--worse
than Southern slaveholders. Condition of free negroes, North.
Universal prejudice against negroes--their freedom but nominal, &c.

CHAPTER II.

The improbability of Mrs. Stowe's tale. Those who receive their
impressions of Southern slavery from abolition papers, are incapable
of expressing correct opinions on the subject,

Anecdote of a lawyer. Abolition editors,

Wonders and humbugs. Jo. Smith's Bible. Uncle Tom's Cabin and
Spiritual Rappers. Mrs. Stowe's narrative untrue. Her story of Uncle
Tom, &c. The improbability of her tale,

Eliza and her child. Maid servants in the South,

Southern men and their wives. Eliza flees precipitately across the
river on floating fragments of ice,

Mrs. Stowe has calumniated her country. The moral influence of the
great American Republic is destroyed,

Clerical knaves and fools. N. England infidelity,

My country is my pride, my country is my boast, my country is my all.
We listen with pleasure to a recital of the vices of our neighbors,

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,

CHAPTER IV.

Would the condition of the slaves in the United States be ameliorated
by emancipation, under existing circumstances?

Historical facts. Manumitted slaves. Vice among slaves and free
negroes--contrast,

The condition of Southern slaves made worse by emancipation. Under no
circumstances can the white man and the African meet on terms of
equality,

Nature has imposed an impassable barrier between the two races,

Physical conformation and mental characteristics. Indolence and
poverty of the African race,

Universal emancipation--effects and consequences,

CHAPTER V.

Evils of slavery. Is the happiness of individuals under all
circumstances diminished, by depriving them of liberty?

The demoralizing influence of slavery,

The liberality of Southern people,

Northern and Southern peculiarities. Slander and seduction,

Vices, North and South. Slave labor unproductive--the reason why?

CHAPTER VI.

The evils of slavery continued. The poorer class of whites, South,

The higher and lower classes, North and South. Politeness of Southern
gentlemen,

Anecdotes,

The slave and his master. Slaves content and happy,

Why is it, that the African race are happy, in a state of servitude?

An old infidel and his slave,

CHAPTER VII.

The evils of slavery continued. Agitation and sectional hatred. _God
save the Union_,

Ambitions demagogues. Dangers of agitation,

Is there no remedy? Difficulties. The course of the Worth toward the
South should be kind and conciliatory,

The schemes of abolitionists potent for evil. By what means can
slavery be abolished?

Colonization. Kindness and conciliation,

Territory should be set apart for free blacks,

Aversion of slaves to a removal to Africa,

CHAPTER VIII.

The holding of slaves not sinful under all circumstances--Curse
denounced on Ham, &c., &c.

CHAPTER IX.

Slavery under the Mosaic Dispensation--Christ and his Apostles,

CHAPTER X.

Paul,--Philemon,--and Onesimus. Solemn thoughts,

CHAPTER XI.

The respective duties of masters and servants, &c.

CHAPTER XII.

Demagogues--Disorganizes--Abolitionists, &c.

CHAPTER XIII.

The love of God--Self-love--Truth and error,

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