MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS

ON

SLAVERY.

BY WILLIAM JAY.

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY JOHN P. JEWETT & COMPANY.

CLEVELAND, OHIO:

JEWETT, PROCTOR, AND WORTHINGTON.

LONDON: SAMPSON LOW, SON AND CO.

1853.

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449 J4252 1853

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, by JOHN P. JEWETT & CO.

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

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Press of Damrell & Moore, 15 Devonshire Street, Boston.

CONTENTS.

INQUIRY INTO THE CHARACTER AND TENDENCY OF THE

AMERICAN COLONIZATION, AND AMERICAN ANTI-

SLAVERY SOCIETIES,

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A VIEW OF THE ACTION OF THE FEDERAL GOVERN-

MENT, IN BEHALF OF SLAVERY,

ON THE CONDITION OF THE FREE PEOPLE OF COLOR

IN THE UNITED STATES,

ADDRESS TO THE FRIENDS OF CONSTITUTIONAL LIB-

ERTY, ON THE VIOLATION BY THE UNITED STATES

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE RIGHT OF

PETITION,

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371

397

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS TO THE REPROOF OF THE

AMERICAN CHURCH CONTAINED IN THE RECENT

"HISTORY OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH

IN AMERICA," BY THE BISHOP OF OXFORD, . . . 409

A LETTER TO THE RIGHT REV. L. SILLIMAN IVES,

BISHOP OF THE PROTESTANT CHURCH IN THE

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA,

ADDRESS TO THE INHABITANTS OF NEW MEXICO AND

CALIFORNIA, ON THE OMISSION BY CONGRESS TO

PROVIDE THEM WITH TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENts,

AND ON THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL EVILS OF

SLAVERY, .

LETTER TO HON. WILLIAM NELSON, M. C., on Mr.

CLAY'S COMPROMISE, .

453

.

491

A LETTER TO THE HON. SAMUEL A. ELIOT, REPRE-

SENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE CITY OF Bos-

TON, IN REPLY TO HIS APOLOGY FOR VOTING FOR

THE FUGITIVE SLAVE BILL,

.

AN ADDRESS TO THE ANTI-SLAVERY CHRISTIANS OF THE

UNITED STATES. SIGNED BY A NUMBER OF CLER-

GYMEN AND OTHERS,

571

621

LETTER TO REV. R. S. COOK, CORRESPONDING SECRE-

TARY OF THE AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY, . . . 641

LETTER TO LEWIS TAPPAN, ESQ., TREASURER OF THE

AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION, .

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