Gradual emancipation the popular plan--It would operate to collect the slaves into a few States, cut them off from contact with civilization, and reduce them to barbarism--It would make an opening for Northern farmers and their menials to come into those States from which they retired--The modifications which the system of slavery has undergone within late years--A comparison of the menials of the free and of the slave States, and the only plan of emancipation admissible--The gospel the only remedy for the evils of slavery--Paul’s philosophy and practice, 1 Tim. vi. 1-5 LECTURE XI. TEACHING THE SLAVES TO READ AND WRITE. Superiors frequently neglect inferiors--The policy of the South vindicated by necessity--The results that would follow an _attempt_ to establish a system for instructing the blacks in letters, and those which would follow the establishment of such a system--The domestic element of the system of slavery in the Southern States affords the means for their improvement adapted to their condition and the circumstances of the country--It affords the _natural_, _safe_, and the effectual means of the intellectual and moral elevation of the race--The prospects of the Africans in this country, and their final removal to Africa--The country never will be entirely rid of them--The Southern policy wise and humane LECTURE XII. THE CONSERVATIVE INFLUENCE OF THE AFRICAN POPULATION OF THE SOUTH. Preliminary remarks--American party--The present and prospective condition of our country--The large number of voters in the free-soil States who will be under a foreign influence, political and religious, inducing them to discard the Bible and the right of private judgment--The freedom of the Southern States from this anti-Christian and anti-republican influence--The presence of the African race in the Southern States secures them this advantage--The unpatriotic policy of freesoilism LECTURE XIII. THE DUTIES OF MASTERS TO SLAVES. “Masters, give unto your servants (δούλοις, slaves) that which is just and equal, knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.”--COL. iv. 1. The duty of masters and the rights of slaves reciprocal--1. The duty of masters to their slaves considered as “their money:” in regard to working, resting, feeding, clothing, housing, and the employment of persons over them: also to the sick and the aged. 2. Their duty to their slaves considered as social beings--Punishments and the social principle discussed. 3. Their duty to their slaves considered as religious beings--Public instruction on the Sabbath and at other times, and the opportunity of attending--The employment of preachers, and the religious instruction of children PREFACE.