Fascinating book arguing that American was under the sway of a new Despotism, not least of which was brought on by the abolitionists, who were sowing destructive seeds of discontent and error.
Uncle Tom and Ida May are planting seed deep in the soil, from which will spring rank weeds and bitter fruit. More pernicious novels were never written; they are sapping the foundation of our Union, and loosening every tie that should bind the country in mutual love and respect.
After describing Africa as a god-forsaken land of cruelty, poverty, war, disease, ignorance, superstition, and famine, our author suggests slavery has been a net positive for Africans. They are so sub-human in Africa that they are not even accountable to the divine law. They live in holes like reptiles; they are sold to other cannibals for a pittance and slaughtered and eaten like cattle. So, be concludes:
A southern slave is as much above the wild African, as we are above the Native Indian.
Invisible Sam [Pseud. Reuben Vose]. Despotism; or The Last Days of the American Republic. By Invisible Sam. New York. Published by Hall & Willson. 1856. 463pp.
A good copy, bound in cloth, with tender hinges, but textually generally solid. Pages are handled, with light to moderate foxing.
