Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1860-03-08
THE REPUBLICAN.
PLYMOUTH, IND,
Thursday -. 49,. March s, 1860.
HeIper,s Impending crisis.

Helpers Impending Crisis.
Not having read this work entirely through, VIC
of course. not prepared to approve defend all
it contains. If il recommends servile insurrec
ton, any but legal means, to overthrow slavery
IN the States where it exists, as some of the bogus
Democratic speakers and papers intimate. un-
hesitatingy condemn and denounced it. We hate
slavery and shall endcavor By all legal and const-
rational means within power to prevent its
spread into new territories, but are opposed to
sorting to insurrecton violence of any kind to
abolish it. As great an evil as regard slavery
to be- Is not so great an one as scrvile war; with
its concomtants, slaughter, rapine robbery and in
ccndiarism. But, If Helpers book recommends
any thing of the kind why is not the extract pub
lished7 Wehayc seen no such Recommendation,
fairly construed, in the extracts from it published
in the bogus sheets, and !. is entirely safe to infer
that there is nothing of the sort in it. II there had
been it would long ago have been paraded before
the public in blazing capital letters The extract
VIC published week before last was paradcd by some
of the mendacious bogus sheets to prove that he
recommended noa-savehodus whites and black
slaves to evolt but fairly construed, it intima,cs
nothing of the kind.
Then, why do the advocates and defenders of
slavery have such an antipathy to the beokl Sim
ply because it demonstrates that the institution is
blighting to the so where it exists, and a
source Of oppression and injury to the majority CT
the free whites even in the Slave Stlicsl The
Slave O.garchy dread the effect of such DANA
gnS exposition, and spit fire and toe at the author,
I ,,, o,,I tt,o;- do~ 10
| that "thrift may follow fawning,' sound the same
key note, sirg prans to slavery. crawl on their
bellies and cat dirt to pacify their Southern mas
tcr.. They arc hor;fr d ut Helper for his DANA
gng exposition OF ins tuition, the existence of
which ctused Jefferson TO say that he "trcmblcd
for bis country when he reflected that God just,
and that bis justice cannot sleep forever but lis
ten compaccntly to the threats Of dissolution Of
the Union by Southern Democrats. if they are not
allowed to plant their cursed slavery institution in
all the territories OF the Union, or if Congress re-
fuse. to pass laws for the protection of this species
of property in the territories. is there any demand
the Southern Oligarchy can make which tho North
crn doughfices would refuse to concedc them fir
as it is in their powcrl The history of the past
demonstrates most painfully that there is not. In
1856 and 81 the Northern wing of the bogus De-
for the ri st Of the people OF territory the same
as State. to regulate their institutions in their
own way. But do we hear any thing Of the kind
no'7 As soon as the Southern gentry found they
had been be iten at their game, in spite Of all
the power and patronage Of the Federal Govern
mcni, which was most shamefully used to crush Out
the Free State sentiment in Kansas, by imprison.
ing and expressing its advocates in every conceiv
able manner, through corrupt part;zan judiciary
and Federal appointecs, with the aid of U. s. sol
dicrs, Popular Sovereignty was denounced as mis-
crable hum5ug, and old Buck made to stultify him
self. in order to pacfy the Slave Oigarchy, by de
cIarin- that "the Federal Constitution carried
slavery n.o and protected it in all the territories
the Union" This declaration was speedily sus
tanned and endorsed by extra judicial decision
ola corrupt. partizan Supreme Court, and nov
what do the whilom Popular Sovereignty North
ern Democracy say? They bow meckly to the be
hests of slavery, and utter not word in favor o
the great doctrine they cherished so dearly ant
contendcd for so strenulously during the last Pres
idenial canvass. Their Southern masters com
m,nd and they implicitly obey. Alas. can it b,
possible that the American people have so sool
forgotten, in their blind zeal for party, the lrsson
Of wisdom and patriotism incucatcd by Wishing
ton. Jefferson aud all the fathers of the Republicl
r. writer in the Plymouth Weekly Democrat un
der the name of investigator" says Helper
Compendium contains the "Most pernicious ant
reasonable sentiments which have ever been conn
tenanccd BY an intelligent and patriotic people
II this be why docs lie not produce them, or tel
what they are! He has SO far, two numbers, onl
given extract from the book, which, howeve
! peri,icious it may be regarded by Shareholder
and advocates Of that '.sum Of all villainies,
slavery. does not certainly contain any treason
Here it is:
? "Aboli,onism is but another name for patriotism
and its other special synonyms are generosity, mag
D nanmty, reason, prudence, wisdom, religion. pro
gress, justice and humanity"
, We are no advocate for immediate abolition Q
slavery, and as citizen Of free State do not con
slider our duty to interfere with the institution
any State where it exists, further than to say wha
we think of il and to use all the legal means in
power to prevent the curse from extending, bu
how much more pernicious, in any respect, or NOR
= reasonable is the above extract than what Jeffer
l. son said:
"The whole commerce between master and slay
is perpetual exercise Of the most boisterous pa:
sions. the most unremitting desposism the on
part and degrading submission on the other, and
; tremble for my country when reflect that God
!. Just; that his justice cannot sleep forever; tina
r considering numbers, nature, and natural mean
only, Feuoiufion OF the wheel of fortune, an "a
change Of situation, probably BY supernatural in
reference Is among possible euenfs. The AlniSht
has no attribute which can take sides with US
such a CONTEST
: Docs Helpers Crisis contain any thing NOR
''infamous" "pernicious." "trcasonable' or az
natical." than this1 Win you say, Mr.. "Invcst
: gator 'that Jefferson was an infamous, pernicior
traitor and hnatic7 You think SO, doubtless, b.
have not the courage to uttcry our real sentiment
But, again, hereiis something more from the sam
= source: f . .fe
"Notaing . more certainly scritfen in the book
fate, THAN THAT THESE PEOPLE ARE TO BE FREI
nor D less certain dsst the t,oo races equally fire.
cannot Eue in The some Gooernmenf. Nature, hat
it, opinion, have drawn indeilible lines Of distine
ton between them 1t is still in our power to Il
rect the process of emancipation and deportatio
peaceably, and in such slow degree as that the ev
VIII wear of insensibly, and their places be. paS'
, passs. filed ~ aefh free sokite lstsrrs II. how