The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1860-02-24
GEMS FROM HELPER.

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We stated in our last issue, that some of the
leaders of the so-called "Republlcsn" party, IN
this county, were busily engaged IN circulating
that Infamous and detestable Abolition docu-
ment, "Helper's Impending Crisis of the South
One of these leaders, Squire Oldham, OF Union
township, acted as colporteur for The Abolition
bag filled with Helper, became nearly as con-
spicuouS, for the tine being, as The razor-pow-
der man with his knee-breeches and three-cor
nered coat-buttons. We have been shown one
of these books, and for the benefit of those gem
:lemen belonging to the Opposition, who ~eny
that they are Abolltionists, we have noted down
few extracts selected st random
"1st. Thorough organization and independent
political action on the part OF the non-slave-hol-
ding whites of the South.
3D. Inelig;bility of pro-sIavery shareholders,
never another vote TO anyone ,whosadvocates the
retention and perpetuatlon OF human slave
ry.
Sd. No cooperation with pro-slavery mer-
chants-no guest-shp in save-waiting hotels
no fees to pro-slavery lawyers-no employ
ment Of pro-savery physiciaus-no audience
to pro-slavery parsons.
9Th. No more hiring of slaves by non-slave-
holders.
9th. Abrupt discontinuance of subscription
to pro-slavery newspapers.
7th. The greatest possible encouragement TO
free white labor.
This. then, is the outline of our scheme Tor
the ABOLITION OF SLAVERY in the South
ern States. Let it be acted upon with due
promptltude, and as certain as truth is mightl-
er than error, fifteen years WILL not efapse be-
fore every foot of territory, from the mouth Of
the Delaware to the emboguIng of the Rio
Grande, will glitter with the jewels OF fee-
Ssdoms".
as1Republican" orators tell US that their party
does not intend to interfere with slavery where
it exists, and Jet here we have deliberate plan
for the ABOLITION OF SLAVERY, endorsed
by IS 'sRepublcan" members of Congress, and
hawked about the streets of Bedford by the lea
ders of that party. Actions speak louder than
words, and the conduct of the "Repubican"
patty, in its endorsement of the heresy and trea-
son of the Helper book and in its strenuous eff
forts to incucate the doctrines of that work lin
the minds of the people, must be conclusive ev-
idence to every fair and reasonable man, that
"Republicanum' has become identical with
Abolitionism. Who can doubt il? Who dares
dispute it
We make another extract
"For its trucking concessions to the slave
power, the Whig party merited defeat, and de-
feated it was, and that, too IN the most decisive
and overwhelming manner"
This is choice s'morceau,' and we recon-
mend it most respectfully to the consideration
OF those old Wings, who in the overflow Of their
good nature, assist Squire Oldham and his broth
er "Republicans' in their election to the Offices
for which the Wings, in the opinion Of the said
Oldham and his fellow ''Republcans," suffered
such merited defeat. Our Whig friends will
please ''stick a PIN there %
Again
"Whh the intelligent Protestant element of
the FatherlaDd on our side, we can we'll afford
TO dispense with the ignorant Catholic element
of the Emerald Isle. In the influences which
they exert on society, there 1850 little difference
between Slavery, Popery, and Negro-drving
Democracy, that we are not at all surprised TO
see them going hand in hand in their da5olical
work of inhumanity and desolaton."
Such are the sentiments that the Black Re-
publican party, are at present inculcating upon
the public mind. Sectional, bigoted, intolerant,
they denounce and vilify all citizens who do
not agree with them in their politics and their
religion In their own opinion they are the
saints, political and religious, and all others
heterodox ani heretlcal. But still, these high
strung gentlemen land some of them ought 10
be "strung" good deal higher than they are,)
are not so intoIerant that they will not accept
Irish, Catholic, or even 'Enegro-drIving" Demo-
cratic votes, when they want office, and we
have no doubt that some OF them will be about
within the next three weeks, soliciting aid from
the men they stgmatse as the ''iguorant Cath
olic element" and the supporters of the ''Slave-
power" of the South. We shall give some
more OF Helpers gems in the future.
TT