The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-03-08


that the same rigor is not exercised towards
swiudlers, official and non oflciai, ia ccnnec a
with the public departments OF the city govern
ment. et
IMMENSE CIRCULATION OF HELPER's Book
TREMENDOUS ErFoErs OF TIE REPUBLICAN LEAD-
While the democratic party are doing
nothing to propagate national and conscrvs-
tive principles. but, like epicureans, are living
on present spoils, without any apparent thought
Of the future, the republicans are making ire
mendous efforts to secure that victory in No
vember next which will be the knell of the
Union. Their great guns are going about
everywhere, processing to deliver lectures, but
really to make anti slavery stump speeches.
We have bad several of these gentlemen In NsS
York already, and now it is announced that
John Sherman, of Ohio, the endcrser Of Helpers
book, ard the candidate of the republicans foe
Speaker, will shortly make his appearance
among us in the same character. OF Seward's
speech two or three hundred thousand copies
have been already printed in pamphlet form,
which, with the newspaper circulation it has
received would bring it up 70 nearly three
quarters of million.
And what are the facts as regards He,oers
reasonable, incepdiary books We learn that
the number distributed up to the present time is
about l43,OOO copies, which includes both ne
fifty cent paper cover edition aud the one dol.
lar edition. It's publisher expects however. 70
sell as many more before November, and that
in This manner its circulation will exceed eyeu
that of Mrs. Beecher Stoves ''Uacle Toms
Cabin A majority of the orders for the book
have come from New York and New Engiaoa.
and the number of copies sold in both the
latter localities far exceeds the number sold in
all the other States combined. Immense qusa-
titles of the book have been sent to Philadel-
phia and Boston. and the orders from those
cities are still pouring in at rate that has di-
minjshed but little since their commencement.
In the West, the demand for the work
was not equal to the expectations Of
the publisher. He attributes this to
scarcity of money there, owing to tue
winter and hard times, but has hopes when
summer returns and work is plenty. that the
sale of the book will be largely increased,
aided, as it must be, by the excitement attendant
upon the Presidential campaign. About two
thousand orders from the South have also been
filed; but the publisher thinks that those who
purchased the book did 80 more through Gu
riosity to zee it than from any other motive.
The book has been decided pecunisry success
to all connected with it, and In more ways than
f,~v NJ In hos - hrov, .
speculation by ITSELF but it has also increased the
sale of many other works-some of them of q
like nature-issued by the same publisher.
When the Office Of publication in this city was
first made known through the columns of the
HERALD, the number of copies retailed singly
at the counter averaged one hundred and fifty
per day, and this quantity only decreased when
the trade orders began to come in.
Such are the exertions that are being made
by the republican party to propagate the po-
litical gospel accorci' g to St. Helper-a book
that stimulates the North, and the slaves and
non-slaveholdiDg whites of the Southern States,
to arise and overthrow the slave labor institu-
ton by fair means or by foul, even if necessary
by fire and sword. This book has been ea-
dorsed by Mr.. Seward and sixty eight members
Of Congress; and yet when they are addressing
conservative audiences, some of the republican
leaders pretend that it is no part of the repub.
lican creed to interfere with slavery in the
Southern States.
Now, all this time the South has made no re-
taliation by sending incendiary publications
into New England to influence Northern labor
against capital. The only instance that has
occurred Of Southern propagandism at the
North is the case of Mr.. Toombs, of Georgia,
who was invited by the abolitionists of Boston
to address them; but they could not bear the
truth which he proclaimed not against the
North but In vindication of the Southern in.
stitution, and they Kissed, and coughed and
interrupted him in the most disorderly manner.
The democrats ought to organize a system
of campaign speeches, and get up publications
to counterfeit the poison of Helpers book
and other treason documents in the Middle
States, where the battle ia to be fought. and
where the republicans are making stupendous
exertions for the victory. Never was there so
much Feed of effort on the part of those who
have faith in the constitution, and never. per-
haps, has so little been done to rally The peo
pie in defence Of the great palladium of their
liberties.
AN ANTI SLAVERY JOURNAL IN TRoUsLE
ABorr THE DEMOCRATIC NoMrNAT1oNs.-The Bali
tlmore Patriot, as viii be seen by an extract in
another column, is very much troubled about
TIE nominations which it asserts will be made
at the Charleston Convention. But the black
republicans OF whom the Patriot is m organ.
viii have enough to do to manage their own
nominations at Chicago. They will have trou-
bic enough before all is over, and they need
not distress themselves about the supposed or
real blunders Of the democracy. As for one Of