Chapter XIII

Rationale of the Kansas-Nebraska movement; Western
agriculturists merely feeders of Slaves; Dry goods
and groceries nearly all of Slave labor origin;
Value of Imports; How paid for; Planters pay for
more than three-fourths; Slavery intermediate
between Commerce and Agriculture; Slavery not
self-sustaining; Supplies from the North essential
to its success; Proximate extent of these supplies;
Slavery, the central power of the industrial
interests, depending on Manufactures and Commerce;
Abolitionists contributing to this result;
Protection prostrate; Free Trade dominant; The
South triumphant; Country ambitious of territorial
aggrandizement; The world's peace disturbed; Our
policy needs modifying to meet contingencies;
Defeat of Mr. Clay; War with Mexico; Results
unfavorable to renewal of Protective policy;
Dominant political party at the North gives its
adhesion to Free Trade; Leading Abolition paper
does the same; Ditches on the wrong side of
breastworks; Inconsistency; Free Trade the main
element in extending Slavery; Abolition United
States Senators' voting with the South; North thus
shorn of its power; _Home Market_ supplied by
Slavery; People acquiesce; Despotism and Freedom;
Preservation of the Union paramount; Colored people
must wait a little; Slavery triumphant; People at
large powerless; Necessity of severing the Slavery
question from politics; Colonisation the only hope;
Abolitionism prostrate; Admissions on this point,
by Parker, Sumner, Campbell; Other dangers to be
averted; Election of Speaker Banks a Free Trade
Triumph; Neutrality necessary; Liberia the colored
man's hope. 123