The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-01-13

A. III.
Edward Dodd, Robert B. Han,
all profess to "feel confident" as is stated on
the cover, that "were every citizen in possession
Of the facts embodied in the Compendium, q
republican triumph in 1860 would be morally
certain" Between forty and fifty Of these gentle
men retain seats, at the present hour, in the
House Of Representatives; one Of them is the
unanimous choice of the whole republican
party for Speaker; and Helpers book is their
programme for the coming campaign.
Helper informs US that the first edition of his
Impending Crisis Of the South" appeared
about June, 1857. The North was not, how
ever, fully ripe, at that time, for taking 1t up
q black republican profession OF nAlth. Hvsn
the bloody organs of republicanism in the
press were comparatively silent concerning it.
Free soil negrophilism had not yet worked it.
self up to the pitch of daring to chuckle openly
over the assertion that "the negroes would
be delighted to cut their masters throats," and
denouncing slaveowners as robbers, rufians,
thieves and murderers," "more criminal than
common murderers." Besides, the Kansas out
rage humbug was not quite exhausted, and Le-
compton was beginning to bud into most
promising clap-trap, out of which Seward, the
Tribune and their incendiarist auxiliaries might
grind political capital. So 1857 passed away
without much apparent attention having been
excited by the Compendium. Neither was it
heard Of in 1858 as party text book, until
about the time of the fall elections, and after
its atrocious principles had been broadly out
lined in Senator Stewards Rochester speech of
that year. In 1859, however, all other appli-
ances of the republicans had become threadbare,
and the fictions of previous years exploded,
and then it was that the sixty eight Repre-
sentative Honorables explicitly, and multitude
more of Honorables and non Honorables impli-
city, determined to re-usher it into the world,
as the great campaign masterpiece for the
Presidential election of 1860. 1t was circulated
by tens of thousands, with "feeling of moral
certainty" on the part of Governor Morgan,
Thurlow Weed, Horace Greeley, and other
Sewardite leaders, who contributed money to
circulate it, and on the part of the members of
Congress who endorsed it, that it would secure.
as they expressed it, republican triumph in
the coming year.
Had Browns invasion of Harpers Ferry
been followed, as abolitionists anticipated, by
stampede Of several thousand slaves from
Virginia and Maryland, civil war, and the
grape, fire and slaughters" which Gerrit Smith
foretold, Helpers book would have been
heralded to the country as prophetic. It fail
ed, however, ignominiously. The murderer
and horse thief, with his associate ruffians suf-
fered the penalty of their crimes, in accord
ance with the laws Of the State which they
violated. AS consequence, the leaders OF the
black republican party, especially in the crih-
cal position Of things at Washington, have been
driven to their usual stronghold Of subterfuge
and deceit. They shrond themselves with
silent disavowal of the Compendium, and,
without committing themselves by condemning
1t openly, assume the airs Of injured innocence
when charged with advocacy of its tenets.
Dooittle, in the Senate, is specimen of this
class Of temporizers. Seward, perhaps, will en-.
deavor to reef his sails in like manner, until
the storm blows over. 1t remains none the less
true that, while leaders traffic in such wise with
conscience, their followers adhere to the plan
originally laid down, and are sowing the trea-
son contained in the g Impending Crisis" broad
cast over the whole land.
The publisher Of Helpers work, in this city
10 a man named Burdick. He supplies the
trade, and the demand is 90 great for the book
that nearly all Of the booksellers In New York
feel compelled to have copies Of it The orders
from the Eastern and Western States are i'm
mense. Local republican leaders stimulate
their followers to purchase it, and the most
,.ror,.,. oHorta oro mad Ia nIare II in the