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NOTICE.

THIS fifth edition is presented simultaneously to many
public Officers, Editors, and Citizens throughout the United
States, in the hope that those who receive it will render their
aid in promoting its circulation and influence. It is believed
by those patriotic friends who have provided liberally for the
distribution of this and previous editions, that the work be-
longs neither to Geographical Section nor Political party,
but that it unfolds principles and methods worthy of deep
and general consideration. The warm welcome it has re-
ceived from some of the largest slaveholders, as well as from
many eminent citizens and statesmen both North and South,
justifies this belief.

The work will be forwarded by either of the Publishers
on receiving 38 cents in postage stamps.

"Bonds make free, be they but righteous bonds. Freedom enslaves, if it be

an unrighteous freedom." - PAGE 28.

FIFTH EDITION;

WITH

A REVIEW OF THE DECISION OF THE SUPREME COURT IN THE

CASE OF DRED SCOTT.

NEW YORK:

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY.

BOSTON: CROCKER AND BREWSTER.

1857.

ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FOURTH EDITION.

Ar the close of the year 1856, a year of remarkable illustration of the principles of this work at this breathing time from the strife of sections, so suitable for sober and benevolent thought, I have summed up the whole matter in three additional pages; closed with a DEDICATION TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES, a brief and earnest Appeal to the whole UNION affixed, not prefixed, because it proceeds on the principles which the work illustrates, and in the hope that when the reader has reached it, he will be prepared to welcome it.

The author has received with great satisfaction and thankfulness the spontaneous approbation of many of the wisest and the best, both North and South, such that he is encouraged to believe his work not unfitted for the high purposes at which it aims, to engage the South in their proper work in behalf of the African race, and to unite the North in taking the only position in which they can render effectual as well as acceptable aid.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the Year 1855, by
CROCKER AND BREWSTER,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts