Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1859-12-07
Incitement to Treason and Civil War.

in the New York Herald, full accounts of new
edition of the infamous publication of Hinton R.
Heller against the South. This work abounds in
the most reasonable and incendary doctrines. Its
obvious design is to rouse the whole North against
the South, and to commence and continue, with
more violence than ever heretofore exhibited that
hs-starred series of aggressions upon our property
and safety which mast result if not soon arrested,
in total severance of the bonds which now unite
us. We do not consider 1t either necessary or ex-
pedent to quote at length from this pamphlet, but
we give an abridgement Of it. as follows, from the
Herald:
THE BANNER TO STAND OR DIE BY.
Inscribed on the banner which We herewith un-
fur to the world with the full and fixed deterqpina
ton to stand by it or die by it. unless one of more
virtuous efficacy shall be presented, are the notices
which, in substance, embody the principles
conceive, that should govern in patriotic
fare against the most subtle and insdous foe that
ever menaced the inalienable rights and liberties
and dearest interests of America -
l. Thorough organization and Independent polti-
cal action on the part of the non-saveholdng whites
of the South
2 1neligibility of pro-savery shareholders; never
another vote to any who advocates the retention
and perpetuation Of human slavery.
g. No cooperation with prc-slavery politicians;
no fellowship with them in religion; no afilation
with them in society.
f. No patronage to pro-slarery merchants; no
guestship in slave-waiting hotels; fees to pro-
slavery lawyers; no employment to proslavery
physicians; no audience to pro-slavery parsons
3. No hiring of slaves by non-slaveholders.
o. Abrupt discontinuance of subscription TO pro-
slavery newspapers.
Z. The greatest possible encouragement to free
white labor"
This pamphlet refers to what it calls "the stupid
masses of the South, who submit to slarory-
characterzes African slavery as the sum of all hu
man villanics-mistates and misrepresents the pro-
ducts of Southern labor-declares that "slavery
must be throttled " and the South redeemed from
her infamy and degradation "-justifes old Brown
and his confederates in treason and iusurrecton-
and declares that slavery must be exterminated,
peacefully if We can, violently if we must"
Such, in brief is this publication Under ordi-
nary circumstances it would be regarded as the
emanaton of malignant fool; but the circum-
stances under which it has been brought out
the men who have endorsed and subscribed for it
and the purpose avowed Of distributing at once one
hundred thousand copies of it through out the coun-
try, render it one of the most significant and dan
gerous movements yet set on foot 1t is endorsed
and recommended, in the first place, by sirty,sir
black Republican members of the House of Repre-
sentatives; and in the second place, it has been
subscribed for by numbers of leading persons in the
non-slaveholding States whose names are given in
the Herald. Among these names we observe that
of E. D. Morgan, the present Governor of New
York, who subscribcs one hundred dollars. Thur
low Weed, of the Albany Evening Journal, and
Greely, of the Tribune, have also subscribed each
one hundred dollars. Heller himself is a native Of
| North Carolina and We observe in the list of names
two other recreant sons of this State-Daniel r.
Goodloe now of Washington City, and B. S. He'd
rick formerly of the University.
/ This book is called Compendium of the Impend
ing Crisis of the South" and is published by A. B.
Burdick, of New York. 1t is said to bear on its
face the combined labors of club of disunion abo
litionists each having contributed his quota to DIFF
ferent parts of the work.
We observe in the list of subscriptions $165 con-
tributcd in North Carolina. No names are given
Will these traitors and inccndaries dare show the
heads? Who are they9
If the doctrines set forth and urged in this work
shall be received and approved by the Northern peo
pie, and if a majority of that people shall attcmp
to carry them out they will at once destroy th'
government under which we live. Indeed, the pur
pose of these conspirators seems to be to dissolve
the Union, for they must know that the Southern
II people will never submit to the control of men VIII,
entertain such doctrines.
u,lc, lo,, .,
| native Of this State He is thief and scoundrcl
while employed some years since in Salisbury as
clerk, he robbed his employer. The fact was provet
on him, and we believe he himself admitted il, an,
offered some lame excuse for his "pickng and steal
ing" He was exposed some two years ago in Con
gress, by one Of our Senator's Mr. Biggs, who's
statements where he is known are implicitly relie'
on. That exposure is part of the Congressiona
records, and may be examined by Helfer's abolition
friends. We cannot just now lay our hands upol
it. but we will reproduce it in some future number
to show how and by what high authority this mis-
cradle traitor has been exposed and branded But
mean as he is, he is very good abotionist Hel
fer stole money, and Greely and Thurlow Wee
would steal and run off slaves from their masters
uPoh IAe sEot ludI gave nitH olTtn, I'LL
seeks to destroy its material and social prosperity
Gov. Morgan aids him in his work, and hugs tn
traitor to his bosom. Nay more-the Governor q
sovereign State, whose chief City has been raainl,
built up by Southern trade and slave labor, has sub
scribed money to aid in lighting up the flames
civil and servie war in fifteen States of the Confed
eracy Is this the message Of affection which Ne,
York sends greeting to North Carolina? Is this
common Union?
Let the public keep watch for these pamphlets
An attempt may be made to circulate them in thi
State. If any copies are discovered, let rigid scare
be instituted as to the in which they OF
tained and the purpose in having them. They ar
circulate them will do so at their peril