THE SLAVE POWER:

ITS

CHARACTER, CAREER, AND PROBABLE DESIGNS:

BEING

AN ATTEMPT TO EXPLAIN THE REAL ISSUES INVOLVED

IN THE AMERICAN CONTEST.

BY

J. E. CAIRNES, M.A.,

PROFESSOR OF JURISPRUDENCE AND POLITICAL ECONOMY IN QUEEN'S COLLEGE, GALWAY; AND
LATE WHATELY PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL ECONOMY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN.

NEW YORK:

Follett Foster & Co., Publishers.

NO. 49 WALKER-ST.

M DCCC LXIII.

“I could easily prove that almost all the differences, which may be remarked between the characters of the Americans in the Southern and Northern States, have originated in Slavery," -DE TOCQUEville.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by
GEO. W. CARLETON,

In the Office of the Clerk of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York.