LETTERS

ON THB

AMERICAN REPUBLIC,

OR,

COMMON FALLACIES AND MONSTROUS ERRORS REFUTED

AND EXPOSED.

BY THE

REV. JOSHUAR. BAL ME.
Anthor of the “Lever of the Gospel," "Mirror of the Gospel," "Magnet of the
Gospel," "Telescope of the Gospel," "Telegraph of the Gospel,” “ American

States, Churches, and Slavery," and the “ American War Crusade."

HAMILTON, ADAMS, & CO., LONDON.

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AMERICAN PRIVILEGE,

THE REPUBLIC OF AMERICA AND ITS GLORIES,

AMERICAN MELODRAMATIC SCENES,

THE AMERICAN SUBSTRATUMS OF MORAL AND RELIGIOOS

PRINCIPLE EXAMINED,

EXPLOSIVE ELEMENTS AND PYRAMIDAL SCENES IN AMERI-

CAN SOCIETY,

ON THE AMERICAN UNION,

THE HAPPY FAMILY AND ITS QUARRELS,

THE BLACK PARTNERSHIP CONCERN,

The TIP OF THE LAST JOINT, OR GENTLEMANLY HONOUR

AND STANDING,

THE LORD MAYOR`S BANQUET, LONDON,

FACTS TO BE BORNE IN MIND BY ALL TRUE LOVERS OF

FREEDOM IN REGARD TO THE REV. HENRY WARD

BEECHER,

THE REV. HENRY WARD BEECHER,

ENGLISH AND AMERICAN DIVINES,

NEW CAMBRIA, THE NEW WELSH COLONY IN NORTHERN

MISSOURI,

AMERICAN DIVINES,

A MARTIN LUTHER WANTED,

TRUE POLICY DEFINED,

MOCK PHILANTHROPY; OR CANTERISM,

Non COMEATIBUS,

FREEDMEN'S AID COMMISION,

THE FREEDMEN'S AID COMMISSION AND ITS ENGLISH AUXIL-

IARIES,

FREEDMEN'S diD SOCIETY AND ITS REPRESENTATIVES AND

SUPPORTERS,

MEMBERS OF THE PEACE SOCIETY AND THE AMERICAN WAR,

PEACE BACKSLIDERS,

THE AMERICAN WAR CRUSADE,

Coons, FALSE SHEPHERDS, &c.

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INTRODUCTION.

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On his arrival in this country, the writer was crushed to the earth by long continued persecution in the cause of freedom. Whilst here he has met with little practical sympathy in quarters where he expected to find it ;—first, because he has a white face, many having reminded him that if he had come with a black one, he would have found his way to the depths of the popular heart ; — secondly, he required friendly aid and succour, and this was quite sufficient in the present artificial state of society to subject him to renewed exercises of trial and difficulty ; but in his deep emergency God in his kind and indulgent providence enabled him to engineer his way to success in the publication of his book, “American States and Churches ;" — thirdly, the writer's criticisms of Dr. Cheever's sarcastic fling at this country in the “ Trent affair,” and also his enquiry as to whether Frederick Douglas was reconverted to the faith which he once professed, and to which he has been so great an opponent in America

-an enquiry prompted by Douglas taking the Lord's