States at variance on the Slave question, 297-8-enactments of
the American Legislature on the subject, 298-9-effect of the
invention of the saw-gin upon the growth and exportation of
cotton, 299-300-necessity of supplying the cotton-growing States
with slave labourers, 300-1-cause and nature of the Missouri
compromise, 301-means by which the demand for slaves is met,
301-2-deterioration of the political men of America, 302-3-to be
mainly accounted for by the influence of political questions con-
nected with slavery, 303-the political principles of the Southern
Party in the United States, 304-Mrs. Stowe's picture of the in-
fluence of slavery, and of the slave trade, on her countrymen,
305-6-sympathy with Russia among the Southern States, 306-7
injustice and tyranny of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850,
307-10-political influence of Uncle Tom's Cabin,' 310-1-causes
which have given to it its popularity and influence, 311-7-re-
marks on its leading characters, 317-21, and extracts-the 'Key
to Uncle Tom's Cabin,' 321-2-specimens it gives of the legis
lation of the Slave States, 322-4, and extracts-and instances of
cruel and arbitrary treatment of slaves, 324-5 — the American
slave system more cruel than any other either of ancient or modern
times, 325-6-the law as to emancipation instanced in the case of
Elisha Brazaelle, 325-8, and extract—a case supposed of a planter
wishing gradually to emancipate his slaves, 328-30-the prospect
of these crying evils being remedied, distant if not hopeless,
330-1.
Victor Hugo. See Modern French Literature.
Voltaire. See Modern French Literature.
A. and G. A. SPOTTISWOODE,
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