New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-13
Ntpqlork Daily Vriba'ta
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: - :, ,.s,,,uppEcrIoN OF THE DRY BONES.

~. hook Is a most nsticeable echo to me cry
....n,,v rsi.ed in the Missouri Legislature s"u "
,rmmptly responded to by the late manl'lpn 49,
son in 81. Louis, on behalf OF the "s"s'
.sts Of the laboring white men OF ''o
states. 1t is aptly described on us co"v'u
,.A. 80. &C the non. slsyeboldfns WHITES Vi .n0
s.,.h ,hrouoh one identified with them " ~
ss'... Nv feeling, by position" Fortunate ,a-
Ia ,,s.s non. savehoding whites are 'espe "'-A'
1.. -, t,e deep degradation end oppressive IT,
so"'' n which they have been so long held sha'
.'''" ".oaid have found such spokesman enc who
-,.,s no stapmering hesita'inS nor "iooi'S.
mad. who possesses perfect mastery OF DIS
IT, tongue who speaks as Wei from long
4.a, and fall knowledge Of his subject as from pro-
x,,na convictions. and 10 whose vocabulary Ihe
cords fear and doubt seem TO have no place.
The writer announces himself Oh his ti.le-page as
. North Carolinan. We gather from references 10
himself dropped in different parts OF h' DOOR, rna'
Ia was born some twenty.seven years ago. "
fsmif whose home had been IN the vaiey oi INC
ysdAip for nearly century and hall; that ne is
aa southerper by instinct and by all the Influences
.ethousht. habit and kindred" still entertaining
a. the desire and fixed purpose to reside perma-
,entIy within the limits of the South" and tha' ne
now halls from Salisbury, IN North Carolina That,
..houph the son Of parent who while be lived
,vas ga considerate and merciful Shareholder YET
many long Summer day he has personally ''powed,
hoed and narrowed " on his fathers farm, TWO and
n half miles west Of MocksviDe, the county seat OF
Davie County, and that without ever having SUI
fered sun-stroke. He did suffer, however,
fom the want Of the means OF education, Whlcn
esctrbu.es so much TO keep the laboring whites OF
fhe South in their present degradation; but by
the light of the pine knots which the paternai
acres abundanty produced, lie improved the long
Winter evenings IN poriDg over some "hali-dozen
old books" which, "by hook or by crook, had found
their way into the neighborhOod;" while the whole
contents and style Of bis own book abundantly
preye that where there is a will there is way aud
that excellent Engli.h may sometimes be learned
and a great stock of valuable information De iald
ND without the help of schools or master.
The result of MIR. Helpers studies, personal ex-
periences, observations at home and elsewhere in
the Slave States, is, "that Slavery is great
moral, social civil and political eVil-a dire enemy
% true wealth and national greatness, and an afro
eious crime against both God and man; aud in the
second place, that it is paramount duty when We
d. O., the people Of the South) owe to heaven, TO
the earth to Anerica, to humanity, to our poster
ty, to our conscences aud to our pockets to adopt
eYectual and judicious measures for its immediate
abolition" Having reached this conclusion, and
totally setting at naught the reign of terror and
censorship of opinion and the press which has SO
bong prevailed at the South, he does not hesitate
distinctly and explicitly to avow and maintain it
and such is the object Of his book. But we VIII
Let him speak for himself:
ni MIR. HELPER AN ABoLITIoNIsT.
Reared amid the institution of Slavery, believing
IL TO be wrong both in principle and in practice,
and having seen and felt its EVIL influences
npOn individuals, communities and states, we deem
II duty no less than privilege to enter our protest
against it, and to use our most strenuous efforts -
Oyer,urp and abolish i'll tt en- are an abohtlonist
Yes! not merely Free-Soler, but an abohnolist IN
the fullest sense of the term. We are nor oniy ~
f.vor of kespng Slavery ok of the Territories, 6ut
carrying our opposition to the institution astep iurihe
We here unhesitatingly declare ourselves IN favor OF
its immediate and unconditional abolition IN every
St.te in This confederacy where it exists! Pa
xriotism makes us Frees oier State PRIDE makes
ns an smancipatiOnist; profound eense OF duty to
the South makes Us an abononist arseseHapie oegee
fonist With the Eree-State men IN Kansas and
Nebraska we sympathize with all our heart. We
love the whole country the great ia Ol Sta.~s anu anu
word Lberty engraved an appropriate and truthtu'
motto on the escutcheon OF every MEMBER OF the
copfederncy. We love freedom, we hate slavery,
and rather has give up the one or sup. 70 ne Sn,.
Ia this sufficiently explicit and categorical II not,
we hold ourselves in readiness at oil times, to return
prompt reply TO any proper question 'nst may oS
propounded.
THE AyOWAL OF ABOLITION PRINCIPLES sA-
CRED DUTY.
The ,et and mos. sacred duty Of every Southerner,
who has the honor and the interest Of his country at
hf ART is 10 declare himself an unqualified and uacom-
prouitng aboli,ionst. No conditional or halfway
declaration will avail; mere thre atenng demonstfa-
ion will succeed. With those who desEe 70 De nstro-
mental IN bringing about the triumph OF liberty over
Slayerv there should be neither evasion, vscilsor,
nor EQUIV ocatior We should listen TO no modifying
aerms or compromises that may be proposed By the
proprieors of the Improbable and ungodly Institution
Nothing short Of the complete abolition OF Slavery can
nave tie South from fslhpg Ito the vortex OF utter
ruin. Too long have yielded submissive ODE
diepce 70 the tyrannicsl domination of al inflated oil
garchy too long have tolerated their arrogance and
secoDce; too long have we submitted TO their UNJUST
and savage e1actions. Let Us low wrest from them
the scepter Of power, establish liberty and equal rights
throughout the land and hsnc forh and forever guard
our legislative halls from the ponutons and usurps
lions Of Pr0-Slayery deinagogres
ROUGH ROAD TO TRAVEL.
That we shall encounter opposition consideg as
certain: peYhsps we may be subjected ~ insult
and violence. From the conceited and cruel ogarchy
a (be South We could look Ter nothing less. But we
sbal shrink from no responsibility anc 90 nonnS un,
IL assaulted shall not fail 10 make the blow reeol upon
The .segresstr's head. The road We have 20 travel
may be q rough one, but no impeachment shali cause
to falter in our course Inc Inc ., oa' wy ~ ts