Smyrna times., 1859-12-15
The Impending Crisis " in Delaware.

The New York Tribune, of Thursday, con-
tains correspondence between Harrison Rob-
inson, of this State, (residing in castelated
building near Naamans Creek, above Viii.
mngton,) and II. R. Helper, author of the "Im-
pending Crisis. 1t will be recollected that Mr.
Harrison and VIM. McCauley, of this State,
subscribed for and recommended the publca-
tion of the obnoxious book. In Harrison's let.
ter to Helper, after deprecating the Harper's
Ferry raid, and the misplaced sympathy for
Brown, whose act, if admitted to be right, would
sap the foundation ofall law and social order, he
says:
1.-The few copies you sent me of your Com.
pend remained unexamined until Yesterday
and must say frankly, that am disappointed
that you have not expunged all the sharp
points. You will remember that in the con-
versation which | had with you, when | was
honored by your visit and acquaintance by let
ter OF introduction from Professor Hedrick, |
stated my objection to your first edition, stating
that you defeated the very object you had in
View-that is its circulation-by not presenting
the simple facts without exhibiting any asperi.
ty OF feeling; also pressing that Slavery is
peculiar institution, and that the truth should
be (noi compromlsed), but tempered TO the un-
derstandlng and moral perceptions of the Slave.
holder You then admitted that YOU once
thought it right to hold your fellow.mcn in
bondage, and, therefore, you should have chari
ty for others until their minds became illumiDa.
ted by the same light that convinced you that
Slavery was wrong, and that this was nothing
more than one man should mete out to another
If we did not tolerate each others errors and
opinions, we should revive persecution with all
It's horrors. Both my feelings and my iudg-
ment then condemned, and | trust will ever
condemn, the policy of arraying the non-save-
holders against the shareholders in the sCcuI
relationships Of life, arousng the worst pas.
Sims OF both, and intensifyng deadly hatred.
Although then held, do now, and ever will
hold, that Slavery is wrong, morally, socially,
and politically, and, to me, it would be a sin to
hold slave, yet that | dared not pass iudg-
ment on the stakeholder, and say that he was
committing a sin. This was matter between
him and his God.
The above being my views, as expressed to
you in our conversation, | rest confidently on
your sense Of honor TO place me in proper
light ia connection with the fact that my name
has gone before the public as one of the con-
trbuors TO your COmptnd, and lmpliedly lndor-
sing its contents"
Thus, one by one, beginning with Shermsr,
the Republican candidate for Speaker, we find
they are backing down from the hostile position
OF the Impending Crisis" Helper, in reply
TO the above, affrms that there is not a page
that he has not rendered less obnoxious than
the original, and says that, as the author of the
book, he should be held alone responsible for
what it contains.
An indication TO the reader of the character
of the Helper book, we add here two brief sem
timents from it:
mo man can be true patriot without first be-
coming n abolitionist."
Henccforth, sirs, we are demandants, not
suppliants. We demand our rights-nothing
more, nothing less. 1t is for you to decide
whether we are to have justice peaceably or by
VIOLENCE: for whatever consequences may fol-
low, we are determined to have it one way or
the other"