CHAPTER I

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COMPARISON BETWEEN THE FREE AND THE SLAVE STATES 11

Progress and Prosperity of the North--Inertness and Imbecility of the South--The True Cause and the Remedy--Quantity and Value of the Agricultural Products of the two Sections-- Important Statistics--Wealth, Revenue, and Expenditure of the several States--Sterling Extracts and General Remarks on Free and Slave Labor--The Immediate Abolition of Slavery the True Policy of the South.

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