The whites cannot, and will not make equals of them any where.  They are at the bottom of the social ladder, and there they must and will remain, so long as they are among the whites.  They can never enjoy the blessings of freedom in the United States.  The liberty of the free blacks is but nominal; they have no more rights and fewer comforts, as free men, (so called), than they have as slaves in the South.  White freedom is one thing, and colored freedom is another.  Most of the Northern states treat the African worse now, than they did a half century ago!  They are in the North virtually slaves, without masters.  The half starved, ill-clad free negro will soon have no foot hold in the North; for Irish and German laborers will supersede them; or otherwise Northern men will legislate them out of the free states.  Pennsylvania has already taken from them the privilege of voting, and Indiana and Illinois will not suffer them to enter their borders; and I judge from present indications, that Ohio will soon follow the example of her younger sisters; and moreover, I venture to predict, that in less than twenty years from the present time; a free negro will not be suffered to enter a free state in this Union.  This prejudice never can be removed.  “Can the Ethiopian change his skin?” If he could, then might we have hope; till then, there is none for the poor African while he remains in the midst of the Anglo-Saxon race.  Behold the negro quarters about the larger cities in the North; think of the riots and burning of African churches, &c., that have occurred within the last dozen years, and tell me, where is the hope of the African!  Not in the United States.  The African race in the United States, are not yet prepared for emancipation; they must first be educated; otherwise there is danger that they will sink into their original barbarism.  England emancipated the West India slaves, and Lord Brougham tells us, that they are rapidly declining into barbarism.

CHAPTER II.

It is no part of my design to offer apologies for, or by any means to conceal the faults of Southern slaveholders.  But the reading of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, has indelibly fixed the impression on my mind that Mrs. Stowe’s narrative is false.  The question is, whether such, or similar occurrences, are common among Southern slaveholders.  If they had been rare, she had no right to make the impression on the whole civilized world, that they are every-day occurrences.  Nor had she any right unless she had been an eye witness of the leading facts detailed in her story, to publish a book which presents her country in such an ignoble attitude before the world; she had no right to base such calumnious charges on heresay, rumor, or common report.  I shall proceed to show that her tale is improbable, and that it is likely that no such transactions as are detailed in her story, ever have transpired among Southern slaveholders.