The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1860-02-09
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1850.

your helper, in reference to the Helper
affair.
A few weeks ago the Democrat attemp-
ted TO prove that Helper, the author o.
the "Tupeniing Crisis" was a bypocrite.
We denied that this charge vas true,
and published Helpers letter of explana-
,iou to prove that We were correct in so
doing. We then challenged the Squire
to cite passages from the Helper hook il
question, in which rebellion vas recon
mended. The Squire accordingly cite,
several passages which be thinks are re
bellious. Now it will be remembered
that Helper is a native of North Carolina,
and sas taught from bis youth, as a mat
ter of course, that slavery was just the
thing that the South needed in order to
prosperity and happiners. But when be
bad arrived at an age of discretion, be
began to think differently, and the cam
paisn of 1856, caused him to investigate
closely the facts surrounding the Slavery
question, and finding it so much worse
that he had even dreamed of. Helper, like
most new converts, became exceedingly
enthusiastic aud denounced it in unmeas-
ured terms Of bitterness. Under such
circumstances, it is not remark able that
Helper should sdyise bis Southern friends
who, like himself, living in Slave States,
10 take stringent measures to rid them
selves of an evil, which be believes and
proves BY inconvertsble figures and state
ments of facts, to be rapidly leading to
poverty and ruin. His language, in ma-
ny instances, is highly and ofensively fg-
urative, and therefore must not to be lit
terally Interpreted, for the very simple
reason that be does not, in all cases, mean
precisely what he says. This We believe
from the fact the results which be hopes
for, be wishes to have accomplished by no
other means than such ns shall be sane
toned. and provided for, by law. He
suggests the folowing means to rid the
free whites of the South from the domin.
ion of the slaveb olders: 9" No co-opera
tiop with Shareholders in poltics-no fel
lowsbip With them in reigion-no afil
intion with them in soeiety-no patron
age With slaveholdipg merchants-uo
gaestship in slaveWaitiDg hOtels-no fee
to slaveholding lawyers no employ mept
Of slaveholding physicians no audience
to slavehOlding parsons" &c. His plea.
in short, is to starve them out ac-ordiua
to law, aui consequently it is not rebel
lious for rebellion is the setting at def
ance of the established Law or doing things
in spite of law. Thi- plan Il az not be in
accordance with cbristisn justice, hut it
is not half so cruel as the course almost
Invariably pursued hy the shareholders
towards those Southern people opposed to
slavery. For they not only refuse to pat
ronise them, hut often cruelty and in spite
of all decency, order and law, drive them
from their homes, friends and property,
and compel them to take up their abode
in land where slavery does not hold
dominion, except over the LecomptoD
Democracy, who are governed by the
Southern Disunion Democracy.
But Squire, you and your helper, have
greatly stulti6ed yourselves in charging
the advocacy of this book upon US, for
We only Vindicated its author against your
charge of bypOcrioy, aud challenged you
TO show that this boek was rebelious.-
Besides, the edition from which your ex-
tracts are taken, is not the book iDdorsed
BY a number of the Republican members of
Congress. They recommended the state
ments of facts contained in the Compendi-
um, which is only about half as large as
the work from which your extracts are ts-
ken, and which Mr. Melick has for sale.
from whom, for 80 cents, you can obtain
copy.
Helpers book is designed especially
for the South Its facts and figures, how
ever, are highly instructive aud beneficial
to the people of all sections OF the coun-
try, as they show clearly the fruit spriu
gipg from the institution of slavery; and
from this the people will be enabled to
determine whether it is best to vote for
the Democrats party, which is busily en-
gsged in lending its aid and support in
exteDeing slOvery over the free soil Of
our Western Territories, or whether it is
best to give their votes to the Republican
party, which desires to keep those Terri
tories free, for the special benefit Of free
white emigrants from Europe and from
all sections of the United States. For