The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1860-01-12
HELPERS Cri is.

dressed; aud what are it, drift and Oh
iectf Before answering these que~tion n
it NAV be we'll to state that there are two
Issues oil the work-the original. contain
ing 420 pages, and compendium, OF
2i4 pages. 1t is the latter Which hae
cen recommended for circulation BY
me NJ bers Of Congress and others.
|. Mr. Helper, the author of this work.
wa. horn and bred in North CaroiiDa.-
He belongs, by origin. and sympathy. to
that class Of Southern men. numbering
some FIVE million. upon whom three hun
dred and fifty thousand slsyeholders arr
wont to shower such opprohlus epithet~ A.
Poor Whites" "White trash who don I
own niggers, &c.
III. His book is addressed exclusively to
this class. Not line of it is intendej
Tor negroes, bond or free; not single
paragraph is adapted to their condition
Whoever asserts the contrary has either
not read the work, or, if be has is fool
and can't understand it, or kDave ano
willfulIy nisrepre.eDts it.
III. The main drift of this product
is an elaborate and careful comparison
between the effects of free labor and slave
labor, as exhibited iD the past aud pres
ent condition of the Northern and South
crn States in regard to Agriculture, Man
ufactures. Mechanic Arts, ComD Ed
ueatioD. Newspapers, and coguate mat
ters. 1t is largely made up OF tables am
statistics compiled from the last national
census. 10 demonstrating the suPerior-
ty of free labor, it rarely trenches upor
the moral aspects of the subject. but con
fines itself chiefly to th' poitlco -econoui-
cal tesrings Of the que-tion, ID akIDg 1t
pre-emineDtly compilation of facts auG
fl i ures, with which a quarrel would be as
bootless as with the uine digits or the
multiplication table.
". Its main object is to arouse the
nou slaveboldiug whites to a sense OF
their depressed condition. and to the as
sertion of their proper moral, intellectual
and hume rical Weight in rhapluk the ees
tiny OF the Southern States. De pairing
of aid from the -uall. ari>tocratlc, slave
holding class. in throwing off the incubu-
that ret.rds the prosperity OF th at section
OF the Union, the author call upon the
great mass OF the wbites-ibe non -laye
bo der,-the real Democracy-to arise
and coDsummate the good work by ns
king Southern con unities a free, indus
trlous, Intelligent, aud wealthy, as their
Northern Deigbtors.
Now, it is these appeals to the non
lave holders which have arou-ed toe bit
terest ire and the greatest cismor agalbst
the ook, ito author and its reader-.-
DOUBTLESS Mr.Hrper ha~ u>ed some sharp
words and rec,mme Bded some -triD- eot
measures Among OF er mode> OF break
Jog down and bringing TO their senses ah
odious OIL srchy. which bas so long crush
d and despisrd aud ussd hia. aud h
class be advise the non-sla'o holders no'
to ota tor shareholders nor any the
wares, nor read their new>p pers, nor ne
their srrmon-. but to set up candid ztes
aud hops aud journals aud preacher OF
their own And be recon mGnds bi- 1retb
rem to organize for this purpose Un
douhtedy his plan of operation" wou,n
prove to be more effectual Ian cbarltatic;
eu bod wing more OF the sharp practice OF
this world than of the liberal -plrIt OF
Christianity. But, it ust be remember
ed, that the writer belongs to and i, ad
dressing those who have long been under
the fnancis. political, so'ial and educa
tlonal ban Of their hau .hty Deighboro /;
who have always been sySte III stlcaliy ex
cudrd from posts of homer aud emoIu
mrnt; who are prevented, by punhc
pinion stronger tn an Law, from oW ming ana
cultN ating the soil. because they cannot
or viii not buy and work ne. TO slaves
Whether the modes which thi- work
proposes for throwing off the domin alton
OF the rulip4 class OF the South are the
bet that can be devised we do not care
now to inquire. We are explaining rsth
er than advocating the authors Plan
He and tbo-e whom be addresses are the
suffers, and they are entitled to a candid
hearing They are Southern men. who
look at the evil from their own stsDd
poiut, know precisely where the pressure
Is severest, and will be apt ultimately to
discover the weak links in the chain that
gall them. Let them write. read, reflect,
aud act IN their own way.
That the arIstocracy Of the South fear
such an uprising Of the white democracy
as this took su. gests, is app aren't in eve
ry shriek of terror uttered 10 Congress.
and through the slaseholiiDV journals and
the servie echoes iu the North. As 1.-THE
pen l. mightier than the sword. 30 Row
au Helper armed with facts and figure,
calling upon the FIVE millions of non slave
holders to ri-e and take possession Of the
Southern ballot boxes, is far more to tr
dreaded by the Slavery Propagandist-
than a thousand John Browns, armed
With pixies and rife. urging ignorant ne
groes to escape into the Free States This
is an insurrection which the laws are i'm
potent to Suppress-the iusurrectiou OF
the mind and coBscience-a rising IN
which the Insurgents will not cut their
masters tbrostS nor fire their dwellings,.
hut th. of aooanta1 NIL