The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1860-11-07

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| Gushing ON Helper.
! The following is an extract from Gen
Caleb Cushing's great speech at New Hs.
ven, Conn. We commend it to the attsn.
ton of all believers in Hclperism
II have read that book Helpers Crisis J
thoughtfully and carefully, and do say
that in all my reading-and it is somewhar
miscellaneous-a little more so than it ough.
to be-in all my reading in any language
there exists no book which confines such
infamous and sbominable atrocity Of doc
! trine with such superlatively silly and in.
conceivably absurd absence of ell reason
I.arghteT and applause.) 1t seems to me,
in rejecting on that book, that every pagH
crashes its teeth at you like hycra-.
tlaueh teri )-or, what shall say, brsys Ike
an ass. (Boisterous laughter.) You hsv.
heard enough of the unparalleled, Of tnt
inconceivable ferocity Of its opinions and
language. 1t is an exhortaton to civil war
servile war, social war, total and radical
revolution, blood and carnage, in all the
Southern States. But, what think you IL
its practical conclusion and thought? In
other wolds, what is its solution of the abe
lition question? 1t is written to promote
abolition-that, and nothing else. 1t will
have abolition, either by force or fraud-it
will have it. How is it to have it? That
book is the first that undertakes TO present
practical solvation Of that question. All
these visionary, scatter Drained abolition
lists, who parade up and down the country
with their imaginary, self-conceited, self.
sufficient omniscience and oinnipOtence -
(laughter)-all these outside agitators Of
slavery have given us no solution. Abolish
abolish say they but no solution how to
most significant speeches, to their hero,
of the catastrophe of St. Domingo. | say
they give US no solution, but Mr.. Helper
Blair does. What is it We have, says he,
between four and FIVE millions Of slaves in
the fifteen Southern States. You must give
the same $50 each, and then provide good
ships, with splendid cabins, and deport them
to Africa. That is the solution. Very sim
ple-very perfect Uaushter.) You are t,
endow them well with cash and export
them. Mr.. Helper Blair does not tell US
where the money is to come from, nor where
tho ships are to come from. These are triv-
ial questions He does not tell us where
the lawful authority is to come from. That
is trivial matter. He does not tell us what
the white people, about whom he is so anx-
ious, are to do for rural laberers or domcs-
tic servants during the time this deporta-
ton is going on. That is trivial. He does
not tell US how the people are to get on in
the Southern States with nobody to raise
cotton TO sell, or corn to eat That is n
minor matter. He does not tell us how We
in the Northern States, and they in the
Southern States, are to continue to carry
on beneficial industry and commercial in.
tercourse when the whole of the Southern
States are producing nothing, but are given
up TO the rather painful task of ejecting
from their stomachs five millions Of Afri-
cans. U.aughtcr.) That is trivial ques-
ton. suppose he would say that those of
us who happen to own ships need not COM
plain. Well, that would depend upon
whether there were any means Of getting
freight. (Laughter.) 1t may be question
we have left undecided. All these are mi
nor considerations, which in this sublunary
and sublimated philanthropic scheme, such
great and wise men are to reflect upon. But
there are two questions which, in such q
SCueue, Suoulu laSc SuppoSeu Tic piopo-
ser would have reflected udon. The RENE
dy, recollect, is to export them all to Africa.
The first question that ought to have sug-
gestcd itself to him is-Don't you wish you
could do it? (Laughter.) And the next
question is-How are you going to do it?
(Renewed laughter.) How will you get five
millions Of people to go! You cannot do it
without great armies. Therefore, get up
your expeditionary forces in the field, hunt.
ing up all these negroes; when you have
caught them, ship them off. That seems to
me rather rough remedy. But it has got
to be done by military force, if done at all.
Now, We have some little experience on this
subject. 1t has taken us more years and
more millions of dollars than il is grateful to
remember to expel, by force, Billy Bowlegs
and a few hundred Seminoles and mulat-
toes from Florida. daughter Now, just
take the rule of three, and see how much
time and money it would cost to expel five
millions. (Grear laughter and applause.)