New-York daily tribune., 1859-12-26
HELPING HELPER,

Up to the hour on which the row about Helpers
book was commenced in Congress BY j. H. Clark
of Missouri, there had hot been single copy of
the cheap Compend issued for general circulation.
bare thousand had been printed for specimens, and
perhaps half distributed to persons supposed likely
to take an interest in the work. but we doubt that
even poor hundred of these had ever been read.
Those who undertook to give it general clrcula-
ton were doubling their ability 10 do itunh Clark &
Co. came TO their aid and at once put new face
on the matter. The publisher must have sold five
thousand copies Of the original work at 80 cents
TO 81 each, according to the style, and is still
selling it rapidly. OF the Compend We are
sending out SEQ copies per day and hope soon to
increase the number TO 600. We cannot send il
by mail without paying the postage g cents) in
advance and We cannot afford to pay that for those
who stDd US % cents for copy, as that would
subject US TO positive loss each copy mailed.
But We beg every friend of light to procure at least
a copy of this work, and ask his neghbOrs success
siyely TO read it, and see if it recommends treason,
MURDER or anything of the sort, and then judge of
the truthluDess of the Pro-Slavery Oracles, in or
out of Congress- by the test of their yeracity thus
afforded If they are found to lie habiIuaDy. per-
sistently. abomiDably, about this book, they will
not be likely to tell the truth in cases where they
ore not balf so well watched.
Mr. Helpers "Criss, " il must rever be forgotten,
is net addressed TO slaves to negroes Of any sort
It's basis is collection of Statistics mainly drawn
from tie last L. s. Census calculated to prove that
aGrery is curse 10 ne SOuh, which If steadily im-
poyerishes and condemns TO state of semi barba-
rism. The value Of the work inheres in these
indisputable facts. You might as we'll undertake
to argue down the Multiplication Table. Mr..
Helper shows that Slavery is especially detrimental
to the Non Slsyeholding White ofthe SOuth-aclass
more numerous than the shareholders aud slaves
together; and that they ought to organize
and combine 10 root il out. And here is
Just where i, touches the shareholders on the raw.
They know that their talk about It's exciting the
slaves mot more than one in Fifty Of whom can
ready TO insurrecton, massacre, &c, is all hum
bug; but they DO greatly fear moral insurrection
of the Poor Whites Their froth and fury Is III
tended to excite their tools 10 lynch and murder
whoever shah venture to circulate this work among
the Poor Whites Of the South or that portion Of
them who can read. Yet, while there Is possibly "A
page in sll of the Compend rather strongly ex-
pressed, it Is not nearly so " ineendiary' as the
rantings Of Thomas Jefferson against Slavery.
The last cry got up to turn the edge Of this
trenchant work imports that Mr.. Helper once wrots
book wherein Slavery was incidentally favored.
Had that been the fact what Of it Born and
reared in the South, he does not pretend to have
been always Ant-Slayery. But the fact is that his
"Lsnd, Labor and Gold" is an Anti-Slayery, not
Proslayery work, though, being published in Balti-
more, if was arbitrarily pruned by the publisher TO
suit q Southern market. II argued that Slavery
ought now to cease in cities and tho slaves be en-
ployedin rurallabOr only-excluded from Baltimore,
ST. Louis, Memphis, Newt Orleans, and act to work
in Nicaragua, &c. We VIII thank the Pro Slavery