LESSON I.—Works of Rev. Dr. Channing—his opinion that the worst errors
may arise from religious tendencies, 177, 178.
LESSON II.—Channing’s seven arguments, that a man cannot be held as
property, examined, 178, 179; his doctrine of conscience and
indestructible rights, 180 to 182.
LESSON III.—Examination of Channing’s seven arguments continued, 183 to
188.
LESSON IV.—That slavery, disease, and death are necessary effects of sin
proved by the chapter of curses, (Deut. xxviii.,) 188 to 193;
Channing’s standard of feeling or sense of duty controverted, 194,
195.
LESSON V.—Channing’s theory of man’s rights and his consciousness
examined, 195, 196; argument that slavery is the best condition for
the African race, 197 to 200; criticism on Channing’s use of the
words nature, conscience, law of nature, &c., 200 to 204.
LESSON VI.—Channing’s position, that the debasement of African slavery
arises from the enslavement of the race in America, controverted,
204 to 206; its influence on the master race, 206, 207.
LESSON VII.—Channing’s views of slavery, as conducive to licentiousness
and unrestrained cohabitation between masters and female slaves,
examined, 207 to 211; his views of the quality and brotherhood of
the races, 212 to 214.
LESSON VIII.—Channing on the relative productiveness of free and slave
labour, 215; his opinion that the admission of slave territory was
just cause for the dissolution of the Union, 217, 218; his deference
to the opinion of Europe, 218; labour and capital, the political
influence of slavery, 219 to 221.
LESSON IX.—Channing’s views of the scriptural argument in favour of
slavery overthrown, by a parallel between slavery and polygamy, 222
to 230.
LESSON X.—Channing adopting and endorsing Paley’s slander on the
integrity of Paul, 230 to 232.
LESSON XI.—Channing’s plan of emancipation and inflammatory counsels to
the free States, 232 to 235.
LESSON XII.—The zeal of abolitionism not according to knowledge, 235,
236; Channing’s opinion that the negro is one of the best races of
the human family, 237; Channing on West India emancipation and
Southern character, 237 to 239.
LESSON XIII.—Sympathy for those suffering punishment from God, for sin,
considered, 239 to 241; the deterioration of sin the inevitable
cause of slavery, 241 to 243.
LESSON XIV.—God’s government of the universe, and his declaration of the
right of man’s property in man, 243 to 246; God’s blessing on the
slave-owners, 247, 248.
LESSON XV.—Ham’s intermarriage with the race of Cain the cause of his
doom and that of his seed to perpetual servitude, 248 to 250; God
never entails a curse without sufficient cause, 250, 251; the mark
on Cain, 252 to 255.