The Northern author of the Congressional rule against receiving petitions of the people on the subject of Slavery.
Note 3, page 88.

There was at the time when this poem was written an Association in Liberty County, Georgia, for the religious instruction of negroes.

One of their annual reports contains an address by the Rev.
Josiah Spry Law, in which the following passage occurs: "There is a growing interest in this community in the religious instruction of negroes.

There is a conviction that religious instruction promotes the quiet and order of the people, and the pecuniary interest of the owners." Note 4, page 117.

The book-establishment of the Free-Will Baptists in Dover was refused the act of incorporation by the New Hampshire Legislature, for the reason that the newspaper organ of that sect and its leading preachers favored abolition.
Note 5, page 118.