Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1860-01-20
New Publications.
The IMPENDING CRISIS OF THE SoUTH How
to meet it. By Hinton Rowan Helper, Of
North Carolina Sixteth thousand. New
York A. B. Burdick, 1860, PIP. 400.

The IMPENDING CRISIS OF THE South How
to meet it. BY Hinton Rowan Helper, Of
North Carolina Sixtieth thousand. New
York \. B. Burdick, 1860, PIP. 400.
This is an important and valuable work.
The author, a native North Carolinian,
brought up under the influences of Slavery,
became at last awake to the inquiries-what
makes the great difference between the North
ern and Southern States? how has it happen
ed that those slave States, which were once
ahead Of the free States in population and
wealth. ara now so far behind them 10 every
element of prosperity, and that those which
started on apparently equal terms with GER
tain other free States, have, in 50 short a
time, been distanced by them in a no less re-
markable degree? One word OF terrible i'm
port contains the answer (says Mr.. Helper),
and that is SLAVERY Mr.. Helper presents
a careful comparison of the Free and Slave
States in the essential elements of prosperity,
as set down in the census returns. The facts
are overwhelming. As a citizen of slave
State, he goes uneomPr 5misingly for the abso-
lutte abolition of Slavery in each State by the
State authority; and addressing himself par
ticularly to the Notwithstanding white popu-
lation of the slave States, as the only suffer-
ers Except the Shareholders themselves) I'M
der the system, who have any political power
there, he urges them to bend all their ener-
gies to overturn the oligarchy of slavehold-
ers who tyrannize over both them and the
slaves, and are rapidly impoverishing the
States where they dwell. needless of every
thing but their own ease and the perpetual
ton of their own unrighteOus power.
The book shows great research, and will
be read with intense interest The writer is
direct and forcible in his language. and some
times very rough and bitter in his denuncia-
tions-though not half so much so as the
pro-slavery politicians of the South al 2, when
speaking of those who disagree with the on
the subject of slavery. In the g COmpendi-
um'' of the book, the circulation of which
was recommended by sundry members of
Congress, many of the rougher passages and
some that had direct personal illusions, were
| left out But the real hatred of the Demo-
| Gratis in Congress to the book is not excited
by these, but by the terrible truths which the
| author establishes, and the terrible denun-
Citations which he quotes from Southern
| -. - Lott ID, tba
of Slavery, as a curse to the slaves, a curse to
! the mssters,-a curse to all who dwell under
its influence, a curse to the State. curse to
the nation, disgrace to humanity, and an
outrage on the principles of the Christian
religion.
The circulation of Mr.. Helper book must
exert powerful influence in both the Free
and the Slave States; and since the Demo
Gratis of the House of Representatives at
Washington will not allow a Speaker to be
elected, we do not know as they can be IN re
usefully employed than in advertising MIR
Helpers " Impending Crisis Every day
shows tNot it is penetrating the South more
and m re-lud all the faster for the attempt
ed prescriptions of it.
| For sale by A. E. Fuller.
! GoDEY's LADY's BooKsfOr February 1860,
is received This Magazine is always early
IN Its appearance, and always shows great
variety in its illustrations of patterns, net die
work and other articles Of art, in its recipes
&c. The reading matter of the easy sort,
none OF it prolound-some of it rather light,
| unobjectionable in its moral tone. This
magazine is now in its Goth vol.