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[Illustration: John H. Aughey. _Engraved by Samuel Sartain, Phila._]




  THE IRON FURNACE:
  OR,
  SLAVERY AND SECESSION.


  BY REV. JOHN H. AUGHEY,
  A REFUGEE FROM MISSISSIPPI.


  Cursed be the men that obeyeth not the words
  of this covenant, which I commanded your
  fathers in the day that I brought them forth
  out of the land of Egypt, from the _Iron
  Furnace_.--Jer. xi. 3, 4. See also, 1 Kings
  viii. 51.


  PHILADELPHIA:
  WILLIAM S. & ALFRED MARTIEN.
  606 CHESTNUT STREET.
  1863.




  Entered, according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1863,
  BY WILLIAM S. & ALFRED MARTIEN,
  In the office of the Clerk of the District Court for the
  Eastern District of Pennsylvania.




  TO MY PERSONAL FRIENDS

  REV. CHARLES C. BEATTY, D.D., LL.D.,
  OF STEUBENVILLE, OHIO,
  Moderator of the General Assembly of the (O.S.) Presbyterian
  Church in the United States of America,
  and long Pastor of the Church in which
  my parents were members, and
  our family worshippers;

  REV. WILLIAM PRATT BREED,
  Pastor of the West Spruce Street Presbyterian Church, of
  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;

  GEORGE HAY STUART, ESQ.,
  OF PHILADELPHIA, PA.,
  The Philanthropist, whose virtues are known and
  appreciated in both