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