to support his thesis in favor of the benefits of slavery and against the evils of "free society" is that his opponents in the North have not offered counter-arguments to that thesis:
It is now evident that these axioms [against slavery and in favor of free society] have outlived their day---for no one, either North or South, has complained of our rather ferocious assault on them---much less attempted to reply to or refute our arguments and objections (7).
In the first place, this "evidence" is based not on an objective analysis of the data but on the word of the author that such counter-arguments are not being presented by the Northern foes of slavery. In the second place, the North at the time of the writing of Fitzhugh's book---1857---was pouring out arguments, if not specifically and directly against Fitzhugh's thesis, at least in general against the evils o
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