This ebook retains the spelling variations and inconsistencies of the original document. Where corrections to quotation marks seemed necessary, changes were made, as detailed below. However, quotation-mark usage in this text is variable. Some quoted passages have end-quotes after each paragraph; some after only the final paragraph quoted. This style matches that of the original document published in 1836.
The following typographical corrections have been made to this text:
| Title Page: | Added missing quotation marks (Our brethren!") |
| Page 7: | Added missing end punctuation (Wordsworth.) |
| Page 9: | Changed igenuity to ingenuity (excite industry and ingenuity) |
| Changed diastrous to disastrous (have been most disastrous) | |
| Changed intercouse to intercourse (intercourse with Europeans) | |
| Page 10: | Added missing end punctuation (spears of the enemy.) |
| Page 12: | Changed 'two' to 'too' (becomes almost too harrowing) |
| Page 14: | Added missing quotation marks ("The officers insisted) |
| Changed kness to knees (against our knees) | |
| Page 16: | Changed stong to strong (a very strong party) |
| Changed consequnce to consequence (consequence of the severe) | |
| Added missing quotation marks (old candle-boxes.") | |
| Page 23: | Changed consience to conscience (a matter of conscience) |
| Page 26: | Changed Jeferson's to Jefferson's (the son of Jefferson's) |
| Page 33: | Added missing quotation marks (for safe-keeping.") |
| Page 46: | Added missing quotation marks ("All that a slave) |
| Page 51: | Added missing comma (his or her master, mistress) |
| Page 60: | Added missing quotation marks (_at least nine_.") |
| Page 85: | A set of quotation marks appears omitted but it was not possible to determine where they were to have been added. |
| Page 99: | Changed agreeaable to agreeable (an agreeable novelty) |
| Page 137: | Changed 'them-themselves' to 'themselves' (pledge themselves) |
| Removed stray quotation marks (their qualifications?) | |
| Page 145: | Removed duplicate word 'been' (to have been the meekest) |
| Page 146: | Changed opnion to opinion (influences public opinion) |
| Page 157: | Added missing end punctuation (in the year 1734.) |
| Page 159: | Changed Geoffrroy to Geoffroy (Lislet Geoffroy) |
| Page 183: | Added missing punctuation (to negro property; what would) |
| Page 192: | Added missing quotation marks ("among one hundred) |
| Page 195: | Added missing quotation marks (your honor," said the Corporal) |
| Page 211: | Changed 'to' to 'too' (too much respect) |
| Page 216: | Changed onr to our (an allusion to our) |