New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-12-09
NEW YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, FRIDAY. DECEMBER Q, 1859.

az IneliVibty OF Pro Slavery shareholders never
another vote 70 any one VIII advocates the retention
and perpetuatiOn OF Human s..Ssesy. .,,.,.;.
-" s No cooperation with n, Go. i ,,t
no fellowship with them in religion. 10 ANIMATION WIN
item in society.
a.. No patronage to PrO-Slavery merchants no
gusstship IN slaye-waiting hotels no Jees 70 trV
slavery lawyers; no employment Of Pro rsVery Pny
ssiaHs; no audience to Pro-Sayery parsons
:" }. No more hiring Of slaves by ROn-ss Vehoioe's'
6. Abrupt diseontinuance OF subscriptions y ITO
Slavery newspapers.
~ The greatest possible encouragement to free
There j. something extreme, doubt in part 81
this; but il q cRIy retoTng upon the sayeholde-T
tbeuseyes tie eoarss Of proceeding which they HAYS
long recommended toward the North and. under Mr.
Hrers experience of the intolerance Of the privileged
class, net altogether unnatural.
IN the remaining chapters Of his book Mr.. Helper
forties his own conclusions with the best opinions
tbst he can gather from the solecie wisdom of the
civilized world. He eeglns with citations against
Slavery from toe writings OF southern statesmen them
selves, from Washington, Jefferson, Madison Henry,
Pinckney the Rsndolphs, Marshall, Mason, CASTOR,
Mcdowell. Clay, Benton, and others, and from the
resolutions of Southern Legislatures be next adduees
the testimony Of Northern men traBkl'a, Hamilton,
Adams, Warren, Jay, Clinton Hancock, Ames, and
the rest he then passes 10 the evidence gwen TO the
same effect by the many illstrioas thinkers and wri-
tiers of all ages, from Plato and Cicero, IA ancient
times from the Popes and scholars OF the middle ages,
from the publlests OF france, from the Mersure oil
Broughsm in modern eras. FINALLY ne ayslls
himself of the declarations OF the Churches, OF all de-
nominations and sects which have put record their
eternal hostility 10 the subsection OF man by man-
This work has seemed to many persons, who SYM
pathized in the leading objects of IT. we'll adapsed to
its ends that they deemed important 20 the best m
of the patton 90 give large circulation as
possible Not that they conceded in all the views of
the writer, that they approved every particular
phrase he have chosen 10 express his meaning IN
for that would be impossible, bal SIMPLY because they
"A lla NJ he ~ "A
Southerner and useful instrument IN the correeion
of public opinion. Leading Republicans, indeed, made
an effort to procure it general perusal Ii had been
objected to them, rs party, that they had no idhe-
rents AT the South. But how could they have adhs-
rents when they had few means OF reaching the South
ern mind from which all free opinion Is so sysiesti-
cally excluded, and when their principles and aius
were so studiously msrepresented! Not Ia speechor
Governors message il ever printed there which gives
fair and impartial account OF the designs OF the he
publican movement Extracts from the rabId eloquence
of extremists calculated TO excite the terros oil the
South are Tepubshed in prOfson, az the settled sea-
timent of the North but the real sentiment IL for the
most Part travestied ard garbed. MIR. Helpers book
was of a nature to show its Southern readers II 70
found any, the reason why the North was SO attached
to freedom, and why the South itself would be bene-
fitted by an adoption of our better SYSTEM and de-
served the favor of all who interested IN the good
of the country.
The Republicans we believe however did not cir
culate il to the extent that desired few certified
TO it's worth and some subscribed TO fund for It's dit-
fusion but the effort not the whole successful
But what the Republicans could not did not accom-
psh the representatives of the shareholders in Con-
eress are about to accomplish for them. BY three
days debate the merits of the work they have adj
yerised il in every nook and corner OF the lnlon AT
the comparatively small cost of about $1,000 day,
they have given il repute which no newspaper, or
dozen newspapers could give il for twice the sum.
They have not characterized it justly is true, but
they have excited desire to read IT. and, after II snail
have been read the public will form its own estimate
1t will see that the terrible publication after all batting
a few over-Zealous and extravagant sentences pre-
sents an important array OF figures and drives home
many wedging truth.