Worcester daily spy., 1860-01-14
HELPER AND THE DEMOCRATS.

The democratic leaders are inexpressibly
stupid, or they would not have undertaken a
crusade against Helpers book on slavery. 1t
is certainly bad business for anybody who
aims to be democratic, and nowise honorable
for anybody who believes with the founders of
our government, that men are superior to
institutions To prove that it is a bad
one, the democratic newspapers and orators
have circulated ''extracts" from the book, cop
led by them from the New York Herald and
their verdict is, that the following passage
(Which was published yesterday in the Bos.
ton Post) is more awfully iniquitous than any
other -
sInscribed ON the banner which we herewith un-
furl to the world, with the full and fixed determina
ton to stand by it or die by it, unless more
vtuous efficacy shall be presented, are the notices
which, in substance, embody the principles, as we
conceive that should govern us in our patriotic
warfare against the most subtle and insidious foe
that ever menaced the inalienable rights and hber-
Tics and dearest interests of America =
l. Thorough organization and independent poiltl-
cal action on the part of the non-slaveholding
whites of the South.
q Ineligibility of pro-slavery Shareholders; never
another vote to any who advocates the retention
and perpetuation of human slavery.
g. No cooperation lcith pro-Stduery politicians; no
fellowship ruth them in religion; no a6iafton tcith them
in society.
a. No patronage to prosarery merchants; gueStsp
in slare-lcaitin hotele fees topro-avery lawyers;
no employment of pro-slayery physicians; no audi
to pro-slavery parsons.
8. No more hiring of slaves by non-sayehoiders.
6. abrupt dScontnWance Of subscription to pro-SIaueyy
newspapers.
I. The greatest possible encouragement to free
white labor"
1t will be observed that this is plan of
operation against slavery which Mr.. Helper
proposes to the nonslavehoders Of the south
ern states. The Boston Post says the above
extract contains "disunion, disorganizing, trea-
sonable, and infamous sentiments" but does
not specify anything to warrant this servile
and shameless judgment 1t is Helpers op-
position to slavery that moves the Post; and
since the democratic party substituted slavery
for the constitution and the laws, it is perhaps
natural as it certainly is inevitable, for all
who are like the Post to talk as the Post does.
That paper has denounced Frank Blair and
the emancipationists Of Missouri; and, in this
judgment of Helpers book it denounces in foul
and false terms the very thought of having the
southern people entertain the subject of eman-
cipation, or even talk of it.
Helpers plan may not be the wisest posi-
BILE; yet he does not propose anything againsr
slauay which the Democratic party is not al
ready doing against freedom, in the most auda-
cious and relentless way. Democrats make
anti-slavery sentiments disqualification for
Office, and would doom to political outlawry
every man in the country who does not defend
slavery and uphold all its demands. The
Democratic party interferes to suppress the
circulation of Republican and anti-slavery
newspapers through the mails mail robbery
for this purpose being authorized by the Post
master General himself That party encour-
ages attempts to exterminate freedom in the
north, by any means that Shareholders can in
vent, whether it be preparing lists of "un-
healthy" merchants for publication in the
south, or using the fugitive slave law to dra-
goon northern towns and cities, or operating
by other yillainous methods of prescription, or
threatening to dissolve the Union when Re-
publican is elected President And these men
have the brazen audacity to denounce Help
er's method of encouraging southern men to
get rid of slavery
To denounce his book as Unreasonable, !" Gin
famous" and the like, is equivalent to SER
vile defence of slavery as divine institution,
and democrats denounce it because their party
has actually become an institution for uphold
ing and spreading slavery throughout the re-
public The Boston Post means what Charles
O'Connor and the shareholders say but, it is
not honest enough to state, what is true, that
the most "incendiary" passage in Helpers
book is an extract from Jefferson's "Notes on
Virginia"