Darlington Library Texts

Author:	Stirling, James, 1805-1883.
Title:	Letters from the slave states /
Print source:	Letters from the slave states / by James Stirling. Stirling, James, 1805-1883. London: John W. Parker and Son, 1857.
Publication Info:	Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, Digital Research Library 2007-12-04
Availability:	These pages may be freely searched and displayed. Permission must be received for subsequent distribution in print or electronically.
Subject terms:	Slavery--United States. Southern States--Description and travel. United States--Description and travel.
URL:	http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/t/text/text-idx?idno=31735054780337;view=toc;c=darltext

Contents

[The United States

Letter I. Chicago -- St. Paul -- A Local Legislature

Letter II. The Prairie -- Prairie Railways -- Prairie Difficulties

Letter III. Emigration to the West -- Long Winters

Letter IV. Henry Ward Beecher -- Lecture on Patriotism -- Spurious Democracy [...]

Letter V. Future Dangers -- American Industry -- Kentucky -- Stagnation -- Social Constrants

Letter VI. Slavery -- Slave Physiogonmy -- Slave Agitation -- Free Negroes -- Difficulties [...]

Letter VII. State of the South -- The North is Democratic -- [...]

Letter VIII. Presidential Election -- The Republican Party -- The Democratic Party -- [...]

Letter IX. Union or Disunion -- Desire for Territory -- The Secret [...]

Letter X. Cuba -- Slavery in Cuba -- What Cuba may be -- [...]

Letter XI. Louisiana -- Longing for Cuba -- Universal Suffrage -- Mob-government -- [...]

Letter XII. Thuggism in New Orleans -- Lynch-Law -- The London [...]

Letter XIII. Mob-taxation -- Pauper Suffrage -- General Walker -- Cotton -- Essential [...]

Letter XIV. Backwardness of the South -- Sparseness of Population -- Changes [...]

Letter XV. English Thoroughness -- American Superficiality -- Want of a Leisure [...]

Letter XVI. A Slave's View of Slavery -- Illinois and Georgia -- [...]

Letter XVII. Florida -- The Seminole War -- A Yankee in the [...]

Letter XVIII. Street Obstructions -- Free and Slave Labour -- Slaves unfit [...]

Letter XIX. Liberia a Failure -- Difficulties of Emancipation -- Elevation of [...]

Letter XX. Orphan Hospital -- Military Academy -- A Southern Lecturer -- A [...]

Letter XXI. Sandhillers -- Duelling -- Affrays -- Habit of Carrying Arms

Letter XXII. American Capitals -- The Post Office -- Abuses and Mismanagement -- [...]

Letter XXIII. Condition of the Slaves -- House Servants -- Field Hands -- [...]

Letter XXIV. Prospects of Slavery -- Economical Influences -- Demand for Labour -- [...]

Letter XXV. West Virginia -- Abolition of Sentiments -- The Scotch in West [...]

Letter XXVI. North and South -- The Slave Power -- Slavery doomed [...]

Letter XXVII. Future of America -- England and America -- New York [...]

Letter XXVIII. Scarcity of Food -- Paper Money -- Manifest Destiny -- American [...]

Letter XXIX. The Success of America -- Its Causes and Limits

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