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War and Peace. The Evils of the First and a Plan for Preserving the Last. London, 1842.
A Review of the Causes and Consequences of the Mexican War, 1849.
Miscellaneous Writings on Slavery, 1853. In which are collected:
Inquiry into the Character and Tendency of the American Colonization, and American Antislavery Societies.
A View of the Action of the Federal Government in Behalf of Slavery.
On the Condition of the Free People of Colour in the United States.
Address to the Friends of Constitutional Liberty, on the Violation by the United States House of Representatives of the Right of Petition.
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A Letter to the Right Reverend L. Silliman Ives, Bishop of the Protestant Church in the State of North Carolina.
Address to the Inhabitants of New Mexico and California, on the Omission by Congress to provide them with Territorial Governments, and on the Social and Political Evils of Slavery.
Letter to Hon. William Nelson, M. C., on Mr. Clay’s Compromise.
A Letter to the Hon. Samuel A. Eliot, Representative in Congress from the City of Boston, in Reply to his Apology for voting for the Fugitive-Slave Bill.
An Address to the Antislavery Christians of the United States. Signed by a number of clergymen and others.
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Letter to Lewis Tappan, Esq., Treasurer of the American Missionary Society.
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Report of the Bedford Society for the Suppression of Vice, 1815.
Letter to Venders of Ardent Spirits, 1815.
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Trial by Jury in New York, 1846.
Address to the Non-Slaveholders of the South, on the Social and Political Evils of Slavery, 1849.
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Judge Jay left in Manuscript an elaborate Commentary, the work of many years, on the Old and New Testaments.