• African servitude • a retrospect • early legislation with regard to the slave trade • the Southern States foremost in prohibiting it • a common error corrected • the ethical question never at issue in sectional controversies • the acquisition of Louisiana • the Missouri Compromise • the balance of power • note • the Indiana case. Inasmuch as questions growing out of the institution of negro servitude, or connected with it, will occupy a conspicuous place in what is to follow,