Table of Contents:
  • Introductory letter on the general state of the Union
  • On cruelty of the discipline of the state prisons of Pennsylvania; Eastern penitentiary
  • On the American system of banking and its ruinous effect upon the producing classes
  • On the working of the government of the United States; chartered priveleges
  • On Thomas Paine's pamphlet in favour of paper money. Character of Paine
  • On the character of Stephen Girard, the banker: the misappropriation of his munificent charitable bequests; character of the American Republicans
  • On the vote by ballot
  • On the conduct of the Republicans of the United States to the American Indians
  • On nullification
  • To the English abolitionists of Negro slavery
  • On universal suffrage, election by ballot, &c
  • Appendix: I. Miscellaneous murders, riots, and other outrages in 1834, 1835, 1836, 1837, and 1838. II. Riots, outrages, and murders at the American elections.