Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1857-07-17
SHAKING ATIoWG DRY BONES.
;. The isnpcndsng Crisis oG the

THE impending Crisis OG the
sOUli,-IIOW TO MEET IT. BY Hin
4 TON RuwAN HrIrER, Of North Carolina. II
| mo, PIP. i2o. New York: Burdick Bros
This book is a most beautiful echo to
the cry recently raised in the Missouri
Legislature and SO promptly responded to
by the late municipal election in StLouis,
on behalf of the rights and interests of the
laboring white men Of the Slaveholding
States. 1t is aptly described on its con-
cluding page as ";hc voice of the ncn-slavc-
holding whites of the South through one
identified with them by intercst,by feeling,
b. position" Fortunate indeed these non
slavcholding whites are especially consld-
cring the deep degradation and Ignorance
in which they have been SO long held that
they should have found such 4 spokesman
one who utters no stammering, hcsitating
nor uncertain sound, who possesses per-
feet mastery of his mother tongue, who
speaks as well from long study and full
knowledge of his subject as from profound
convictions, and in whose vocabulary the
words fear and doubt seem to have no place.
The writer announces himself on his
titc-pagc as North Carolinian. We
gather from references TO himself dropped
in different parts of his book, that be was
born some twenty-sevcn years ago, "of
family whose home had been in the valley
of the Yadkin for nearly century and
half = that he is "a Southerner by instinct
and by all the influences of thought, habit
and kindred" still entertaining 'the desire
and fixed purpose to reside permanently
within the limits Of the South" and that
he now halls from Salisbury, in North
Carolina. That, although the son Of pa
rent who while he lived was "a consideratc
and mcrciful STAKEHOLDER" yet many a long
Summer day he has personally "plowed,
heed and narrowed on his fathers farm,
two and half miles west of Mocksville,
the county seat Of Davie county, and that
without ever having suffered sun stroke.
He did suffer, however, from the want of
the means Of education, which contributes
so much to keep the laboring whites of the
South in their present degradation but by
the light Of the pine knots which the pa
ternal acres abundantly produced, he i'm
proved the long Winter evenings in pPEing
over some "half-qozcn Old books which,
"by hook or by crook, had found their
way into the ncighborhood )" while the
whole contents and style Of his own book
abundantly prove that where there is
will there is way, and that excellent
English may sometimes be learned and a
great stock Of valuable information be laid
up without the help of schools or master.
The result of Mr.. Helpers studies, per-
sonal experiences, observations at home
and elsewhere in the Slave States, is" "that
Slavery is great moral, social, civil and
political eyil-a dire enemy to true wealth
and national greatness, and an atrocious
crime against both God and man; anj in
the second place, that it is a paramount
duty which we &. G., the people of the
SOUTH owe to heaven, to the earth, to
America. to humanity, to our posterity, to
our conscienccS and to our pockets to adopt
efrectual and julicious measures for its inl-
mediate abolition" Having reached this
conclusion, and totally setting at naught
the reign of terror and censorship of opin-
ion and the press which has So long pre-
vailed at the South, he does not hesitate
distinctly and explicitly to avow and main
tain it-and such is the object Of his book.
But VIC will let him speak for himself, in
few extracts quoted by the ". l, Tribune.
PROGRAMME FOR ABOLITION OF SLAVERY
First: Thorough Organization and In
dependent Political Action on the part Of
the Non -Slavcholding whites Of the South
Second Ineligibility Of Shareholders
Never another vote to the Traflicker in
Human Flesh.
7hird: No Cooperation with Slavehol-
ders in Politics-No Fellowship with them
in Religion-No Afiliation with them in
Society.
Fourth: No Patronage to Slaveholdipg
Merchants-No Guestship in Slave-wait.
ing Hotels-No Fees to SlaveEolding Law
yers-No Employment of Slaveholling
ysicians-No Audience to SlaveholdiDg
Parsons.
FitM: No Recognition of Pro- Slavery
Men, except as Rufians, Outlaws and
Criminals.
!Si;rM: Abrupt Discontinuance Of Sub
scription to Pro-Slavery Newspapers.
,Scrcnth: The Greatest Possible Encour-
acemcnt TO Free White Labor.
EiighM: No more Hiring Of Slaves by
Non Shareholders.
Ninth: Immediate Death to Slayery,or
if not immediate, unqualified Prescription
of its Advocates during the Period Of its
Existence.
Tenth: A Tax of Sixty Dollars on every
Stakeholder for each and every Negro in
his Possession at the present time or at
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