Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1860-01-20
Extract from Helpers Book.

Slavery lies at the root OF All tns
shame, poverty, ignorance, tyranny and
imbecility of the South slavery must
be thoroughly eradicated; let this be
done, and glorious future will await US.
TIE Statesmen acho are 10 ABOLISH SID
verv ia Kentucky, must be mainly and m
depe,ade,atly constituted By the HoE-slare-
holders Of KENTUCKY; so IN every other
slave State. Past experience has taught
US the sheer folly of ever expecting vol
untary Justice from the shareholders.
Under all the circumstances, it is the
non-slaveholders to mark out an indie
pendent course for themselves, to steer
entirely clear of the oligarchy, and to
utterly contemn and ignore the many vile
instruments of power, animate and in
animate, which have been so freely and
so effectually used for their enslavement.
Now is the time for them to assert their
rights and liberties; never before was
there such an appropriate period to strike
for Freedom in the South.
Had it not been for the better sense,
the purer patriotism, and the more prac-
teal Justice of the non-slaveholders, the
Middle States and New England would
still be grooming and groveling under the
ponderous burden of slavery; New York
would never have risen above the dis
honorable level of Virginia; Pennsylva-
MIA tranpled beneath the iron heel of the
black code, would have remained the I'M
progressive parallel of Georgia; Massa-
: chusetts would have continued till the
present time, and Heaven only knows
how much longer, the contemplate CO.
equal OF South Carolina.
Succeeded by the happiest moral effects
and the grandest physical results, we have
seen slavery crushed beneath the wis
dom of the non-slaveholding Statesmen
: of the North; followed by corresponding
influences and achievements, to many OF
US who have not yet passed the meridian
: of life, are destined to see it equally
: crushed beneath the a0iSdom of the non
7 sldUeholdjng Statesmen of the South
i, With righteous indignation, we enter our
disclaimer against the base yet baseIess
g admission that Louisiana and Texas are
:, incapable of producing as great States
e men as Rhode Island and Connecticut
: What has been done for New jersey By
: the Statesmen of New Jersey, can b,
q done for North Carolina By the Statesmen
: of North Carolina; the wisdom of tn,
+ former State has abolished slavery; a
:. sure as the earth revolves on its axis, TIL
It acaSdom of the latter aUsU not do less.
L That our plan for the abolition of slav
. cry, is the best that can be devised, VI
= have not the vanity to contend but tina
. it is good one, and will do to act upol
= until better shall have been suggested
we do firmly and conscientiously believe
. Though but little skilled in the delcat
art of surgery, we have pretty thorough
> ly probed slavery, the frightful tumor o
the body polite, and have, we think, a:
" certained the precise remedies requisit
= for speedy and perfect cure. Possibl
= the less ardent friends of freedom ma
!, object to our prescription, on the groun
" that some of its ingredients are too or
ping, and that it will cost the patient
- deal of most excruciating pain. 81
" let them remember that the patient
: exceedingly refractory, that the case is
- desperate one, and that drastic remedi,
are indispensably necessary. When the
. shall have invented milder yet equal
40 efficacious ones, it will be time enough
- discontinue the use of ours-then no oil
will be reader than we to discard the i
fallible strong recipe for the infallib
mild. Not at the persecution of fe
thousand shareholders, but at the restit
ton of natural rights and prerogatives
several millions of non-slaveholders,
we aim"