East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1860-04-19
Gen. Caleb Cushing On helper.

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81 have read that book"~IIelpcr's I'm
pending Crsis-"thoughtfully, carefully,
and do say that in oil my reading---and
it is somewhat mi.cellaneous-a little
more so than it ought to bc--in all my
reading in any language, there exists no
book which combines such infamous and
abominable atrocity Of doctrine with
such superlatively silly and inconceivably
absurd of all reason. Great laughter
and applause.) 1t seems to me, in re-
hecting on that book, that at every page
it gnashes its teeth at you like a hyena-
Qanghter)--or, what shall l say, brays
like an ASA. (Boisterous laughtcr) You
have heard enough Of the unparalleled,
Of the inconceivable fcrocity Of its opin-
ions and language. 1t is an exhortation
to civil war, servilc war, social war, total
and radical revolution, blood and carnage
in all the Southern States. But, what
think you is its practical conclusion and
thought? In other words, what is its So
luton Of the abolition question =? 1t is
written to promote aboltion-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 a practi.
cal solution OF that question. All these
visionary, ter.brained Aboltionists,
who parade up and down the country
with their imaginary, self conceited, self
sufficient omniscicncc and omnipotence-
| (laughtcr)-all these outside agi.ators of
slavery, have given us no solution
Abolish! abolish say they; but no solu-
tion how to do it, unless it be to point
sometimes, by most significant speeches,
TO their hero, Toussaint pOuverture, and
to the horrors Of the catastrophe at 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
S.stes You must give the same $50
each, .nd then provide good ships, with
spl, did cabins, and depart them to
Africa. Tha. is the solution. Very
simple. ve.'v perfect. (Laughter.) You
arc to cndow them well with cash and
export them, h.'r. Helper Blair does not
tell us where the mo.1cy is to come from,
nor where the ships arc - como from
These are trivial questions. tic docs not
tell rs where the lawful authority is to
come from. That is a trivial matcsr.-
He docs not tell US how tho people are u
get on in the Southern States, with no.
body to raise cotton to sell or corn to eat.
That is miner matter. lie does not
tell us what the white people, about whom
he is So anxious, are to do for rural labor
crs or domestic servants during the time
this deportation is going on. That is
trivial. He does not tell us how we in
the Northern States, arc to continue TO
carry on beneficial industry, and CONNER.
cial intercourse 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 Africans. Laughter.) That
is trivial question. suppose he would
say that all Of us who happen to own
ships need not complain. Well, that
would depend upon whether there were
any means of getting freight. laugh
ter.) 1t may be question we have left
undecided. All these are minor consid
erations, which in this sublunary and sub
limated philanthropic scheme, such great
and wise men are to reflect upon. But
there are two questions which, in such
scheme, ] should have supposed the pro-
poser would have reflected upon. The
remedy, recollect, is to export them all to
Africa. The first question that ought to
have suggested itself TO him is, Don't
YOU wish you could do it? Uaughter.)
And the next question is, How are you
going to do it? (Renewcd laughter.)- -
How will you get five millions of people
10 go? You cannot do it without great
arlnies. Therefore get up your cxpedi-
tionary forces in the field, hunting up all
these negroes, and when you have caught
them ship them of, That seems to me
rather rough remedy. But it has got
20 be done by military force, it done at
all. Now, we have some little expert
encc on this suLjebt. 1t has taken us
more years and more millions of dollars
than it is grateful to remember, to expcl
by force Billy Bowlcgs and few hun
dred Seminoles and niulattoes from Flor
ida. (Langhtcr.) Now, just take the
rule Of three, AL see how much time
and money it would cost to expel five
millions. (Great laughter and applause.)
But to be more serious upon the subject;
I say no example exists in history Of the
deportation OF such great masses of men
from any country. Two cases occur to
me which presents real parallclism.-
One was the effort of the Spanish gov.
crnment, in the reigns of Philip III. and
~, to clear about $4,000 Moors out Of
Spain. 1t cost Philip III. three years.
war and two whole armies to hunt up
that handful of men, and export them
even to the neighboring coast---which
they could almost touch with their hands
of northern Africa. Another example
occurred in the reign Of Peter the Great.
Owing to some local controversy, great
migration Of Tartar tritc from Russia
to China, to the number Of some millions
of human beings, took place; and the
narrative Of that exodus, of its suiferings,
Of its dangers, of its destruction of life,
is one Of the moving pictures Of human
history. In the mere effort to pass from
one neighboring country TO another, one
half Of the people perishcd-pcrished