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  THE

  RIGHT

  OF

  AMERICAN SLAVERY.

  BY

  T. W. HOIT,

  OF THE ST. LOUIS LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION.

  SOUTHERN AND WESTERN EDITION.


  FIRST AND SECOND EDITIONS, 500,000 COPIES.


  FOR SALE BY THE PRINCIPAL PUBLISHERS THROUGHOUT THE UNION.


  ST. LOUIS, MO.:
  PUBLISHED BY L. BUSHNELL.
  1860.


  Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860,

  By T. W. HOIT,

  In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States
  in and for the District of Missouri.


  BAKER & GODWIN, PRINTERS,
  Printing-House Square, opposite City Hall,
  NEW YORK.




PREFACE.


TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

_My Fellow Countrymen:_--Upon what manner of times have we fallen? Is
our supposed experiment of self-government about to prove a failure?
Are we so blind as not to see the abyss into which we are about to
plunge? Section hostile against section; States arrayed against the
Constitution; Churches sundered; the springs of intelligence