Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1860-01-13

Central America, and further tax OF
sixty dollars for each slave TO be assessed
on the master TO furnish funds for the re-
moval and settlement OF the slaves in
their new home. The expense of reno
wing the slaves TO the coast of Africa Dir.
Helper estimates at $500 each, which
on S4,000,000 slaves will amount TO one
hundred millions of dollars. In short,
Dir. Helper proposes that the slayehold-
ers should not only relinquish their prop
erty in slaves, but should pay the sum of
tlro hundred and forty millions Of dollars
more to compensate the mischief already
done by their institution.
Having thus demonstrated the right
and justice of liberating and coIonizing
the slaves at the expense of their mas
tiers, Dir. Helper proposes his plan by
which this stupendous revolution is TO be
effected. We give his scheme in his own
words:
l. Thorough organization and indie
pendent political action on the part of the
non-slaveholding whites of the south.
2. Ineligibility of shareholders. New
er another vote to the trafficers in human
flesh
3. No cooperation with shareholders
in politics. No fellowship with them in
religion. No utilization with themin So
ciety.
4. No patronage to slaveholding mer-
chants. No guestship in slave waiting
hotels. No fees TO slaveholding lawyers
No employment of slavebolding physi-
clans. No audience to slavebolding par
sons.
8. No recognition of pro-slavery men,
except as rufIians, outlaws and criminals.
6. Abrupt disconiinuance of subscrip-
ton to pro-slayery newspapers.
Z. The greatest possible encourage
ment to free white labor.
8. No more hiring of slaves by nom
shareholders.
9. Immediate death to slavery, or if
not immediate, unqualified prescription of
Its advocates during the period of its ex-
istence.
10. A tax of $4,000 on every slave
holder for each and every negro in his
possession at the present time, or at any
intermediate time between now and the
4th of July, 1868, said money to be ap-
piled to the transportation of the blacks
to Liberia, to their colonization in Gem
trial or Sodth America or to their com
Portable settlement within the boundaries
of the United States.
IL. An additional tax of $4,000 per
annum, to be levied annually on every
STAKEHOLDER for each and every negro
found in his possession after the 4th of
July, 1868, said money to be paid into
the hands Of the negroes so held in slave
ry, or in case of death to their next of
kin, and to be used by them at their own
oytion.
Here then we have Mr.. Helpers
scheme for abolishing slavery. Let US
pause and contemplate it for a moment,
and see whether it is practicable. He
proposes in the first place an organization
of the non-slaveholding whites of the
south into political party, aiming to pro-
duce great political and social revolu-
ton. A class of men, of whom a great
majority are by his own showing without
education; many can neither read nor
write, who are mostly destitute of prop
erty or influence, and wholly unacquaint-
ed with political affairs, and who as he
says have all their lives been held in a
state OF ignorance and thraldom but little
above the condition of the negros.
With this new party he proposes to
disfrancLise the shareholders, whom he
accuses of monopoli8ing all the Offices
and the greater part of the property, and
are almost the only educated and intelli
gent class i'll that community. He then
proposes that the shareholders shall be
compelled TO give up sixteen hundred
millions OF property in slaves, ard paw {
tax of sixty dollars for each slave. am
ountlng TO two hundred and forty million,
more, to c0lonize and settle the slave;
abroad and finally, that this multitude
OF untaught and degraded slaves, at nj
d, expense OF one hundred millions of dol
lars are TO be transported and settled il
Africa. 1t would be an Exodus the lik,
of which the world has not seen sine.
Moses guided and aided by Divine powe-
led the children of Israel out of the Ian,
OF Egypt This plan of Mr.. Helpe
for abolishing slavery must be considere,
wholly impracticable for this generation
: at least.
But II no confidence can be placed il
Mr.. Helpers scheme for getting rid O
slavery, there certainly is no justification
for the excitement of the southern mem
bers OF Congress on account of this book
There is no treason or insurrection rac