Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-12-17
Helpers ..1mpendlng Crisis at the south.'

Helpers HImpending Crisis Mt the South"
The effect of the onslaught upon this work, in
which the Southern Members Of Congress have
been engaged since the opening of the session,
under the lead of JOHN B. CLARK, of Missouri,
must necessarily be to attract attention towards
it, and secure for it general perusal The SEN
sation created upon its first appearance had
consideredably subsded. That sensation will
now be revived, and the political Importance oil
the work will now have range more commen'
surate with the signal ability of its expositons
comparisons. It's demonstrations are mathemat-
ical, its figures unquestionable of the ruinous
and debasing influence of the system of survilc
labor upon the industrial and commercial inter-
ests, and on the society of the South. It's author
HNToN RoHAN HELPER, was a native of Slave
State, born and bred amid the circumstances
and surroundings Of the peculiar institution,
and therefore has especial authority, as an ex-
perienced and personal witness, to speak of its
operations and results. Appreeiatng, at once,
the service which such book, having such an
origin, might do in convincing the popular mind
at the South, particularly, of truths which il is
slow in compromising, the leading friends OF
Freedom throughout the country welcomed its
appearance, and assisted TO give it the wide circu
htion necessary to its accomplishment of the
good for whichitwas designed, orwhich it was
capable. Admirable as it was in its plan, and
ably and carefully as that plan had been execut-
ed, in its patiently collated statistics and the
pertinent remarks and sound arguments which
the figures Illustrated there we're obvious de-
fects in the book in its original shape, which, il
was seen, tended to lessen, somewhat, the power
ful influence it might exert. Portions oft were
too warm and impassioned in their illusions to
The Slayeocracy, and too bitter in their denunci-
alton the Institutions and political measures
Of the South, to admit Of any hope of a circula.
ton and candid pefusal Of the work where IL
was most needed. 1t being thought moreover
that reduction of the size Of the volume would
be Of advantage, it's prominent friends caused il
to'be MISUNDERSTANDING away all violeneel
oflanguage, and all not strictly relevant to it
logical aim, and presenting, 10 the "Compendi
nm, which is the object of the Southern wratl
now being vented 10 ConSress, its plain, unvar
nished tale OF ruin and disaster consequent upor
the influence OF Slavery aud the policy of itl
supporters To aid in the publication aud dis.
tibution Of this book, subscription was started
and many prominent Republicans, including a
numbcr OF the Members Of Congress gave their
signatures foe liberal amOuntsi by the act indors-
ing and Recommending the work. 1t is for this
that Mr.. cLAHk, arraignS them before the House
charging them With giving eOuDtsnanee to and
aidipg in the publication and circulation Of sedi-
tiOns and .reasonable writings
The iudiscfshop atd folly Of the attack upon
the book Is ia harmony with the course oi
southern madness. and cannot be much regretted
Tbe lre eaters viii no doubt discover after the