The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-11-22
THE SELF C0NDEMNED-A BEAUTIFUL CON.
FESSION FROM THURLOW' WEED-THE

THE SELF CONDEMNED BEAUTIFUL CON-
FESSION FROM THURLOW' WEED-THE
HELPER BOOK REPUDIATED.
No press in the North has done more to influence
the Republican mind against the South than the
Albany Erening Journal. No journal throughout
the late Presidential campaign did more, by coarse,
vindictive violent language, or partisan bitterness
to make the free North hate the slayeholding South
No journal labored harder to circulate the afro
cious sentiments of the infamous Helper Book; and
no man than its editor more heartily abused those
who deemed it their duty to condemn that book
and its teachings. Its editor not content with en-
dorsing it, and giving money to help circulate it
for political effect throughout the North-devoted
whole columns of his paper to extracts from it; and
now, after the poison has done its work-after the
Impending crisis which that book was expressly
written to bring on the South is staring US in the
face-this man, Thurlow Weed, if alarmed at
the frightful consequences of his own diabolism,
thus fees to the confessional, and, like trembling
criminal, with ashen lips-to acknowledge, if not
to beg forgiveness, for his past transgressions:
From the Albany Erening Journal Monday.l
THE HELPER BOOK.
Now that South Carolina, and the reeaters of other
Southern States threaten to dissolve the Union, have
instituted rigid personal inquiry into our own course
and conduct towards the South This inquiry results in
conviction, that with one exception We have not, in
thought word deed wronged brethren of the slave
| States.
We read the Helper book hastily soon after its publ
| cation. 1t the work of Southern mana native
and resident of North Carolina 1t conrased the advan
ages with the disadvantages of slavery proving, as we
thought that the prosperity of North Carolina
tarded rather than promoted by slavery When asked
therefore, to aid in the publication of large edition Of
| "Compend.n we contributed 500.
At Washington in December last first learned that
this "Compend" contained the following recommended
| tons:
action the part of the nonslaveholdng whites of the
! South.
ID Ineligbiity OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES another vote
| the tlafficker in human flesh.
Sd. No cooperation with Shareholders in poltics-no
fellowship with them in region-no utilization with them
| in society.
4th. No patronage to slavehoding merchants-no
guestship in save-waiting hoelsno fees to slavehoId
ing lawyersno employment Of slaveholdng physicians
mo audience to slaveholding parsons.
5th. No recognition of pro-savery men, except as ruff
| fans, outlaws and criminals.
These recommendations are repugnant to, and in con-
1ict with, our principles sentiments and sympahies-
While these principles sentiments and sympathes are
all in favor of Freedom they revolt at such modes of
fare. We have never opposed or thought of opposing
Slavery by such means nor have we ever cherished or
| Intentionally given countenance to such spirit
Is there anything in the annals of political
eevi"g partisan etrontery to parallel this?
After circulating the "Heper Book" as campaign
document for nearly a twelve-month, and eecting
President the strength of it, we are coolly told
that "its recommendations repugnant to and in
conflict with our principles, sentiments and svmpa-
thies." Having sown the wind, these demagogues
are afraid now that they are going to reap the
whirlwind; and hence their anxiety to appease,
apologize and explain things that do not admit of
| being appeased, apologized for, or explained. We
shall not be surprised next to hear Governor Nor
gan, William Cullen Bryant, and the sixty-eight
Republican Members of Congress, all crying out,
now, 8eriotim-repudiating, as Weed tries to repu-
diate, the responsibility IN. Y. Erpress.
| SOUTHERN AGITATIoN.-The Democratic party of
the North are, in great part responsible for the
present agitation at the South. Through the late
canvass they gave the impression in their newspa-
pers that the Republicans were aggressive body.
With Lincon's election, the Democratic journals
warned the South, would begin new state of
things adverse to Southern interests. Not directly
but the whole course of their arguments tended to
establish the idea that, in the election of Republi.
cans to office, great danger to the country was
involyed.-Ne,o Bedford Mercury.
THE REPUBLICAN EDITORS ALARMED.
We want to please everybody. We are very anx.
ious to please everybody. Bat especially, and more
than everybody and everything else, we desire to
please the Providence Journal and those other Re-
publican newspapers which have been for years
threatening the South with fire and sword, but are
just conservative the North pole, and
| as gentle as lambs.
During the Presidential campaign we did our
best to aid these papers in putting their principles
| before the public. We supplied the more important
of their omissions. We republished their creed
extracts from the speeches of their great men and
| from their campaign books-resoutions adopted by
| their Conventons--laws enacted by their Legisla-
| tures-and so forth.
Even since the election has gone by, we have
given circulation to some of the speeches made in
Qualification of the event, by such men as Wendell
Phillips, John A. Andrew and Henry Wilson. And
when they have wondered at the evaporation of
the South, we have pointed to these speeches and
to certain laws upon Northern statute books, as
showing plainly enough how the milk got into the
| cocoa-nut.
But the Journal and its associates which have
become conservative, and so afectOnate towards
the South, were not satisfied. They charged US, a
few days ago, with misrepresentation. We proved
| the charge tG be false; but admitted that it might
be and probably the intention of the Republi-
can leaders to cheat the rank and file of the party
Even this, it seems, is not satisfactory. They want
US to cool down and pacify their enemies with the
strongest assurances that everything will be all
right" And even this we are willing to do
We assure thee, then, 0 South, that you
| 1--WE can't go any deeper into the Mees and hous)
have achieved glorious victory in this election.
You couldn't have done better, If the Chicago
| Convention had been held at New Orleans and Abe
Lincoln had been slave auctioneer in Charleston.
It's all right Every thing is all right, and nice,
and tight. Now come to think of it-''what-
is, is right" including, of course, the Black
Republican party. And, by the by, there isn't any
Black Republican party: there never any
Black Republican party; there never will be any
Black Republican party. What passed for Black
Republican party three weeks ago, was all in your
eye. The Black Republican creed you have read
wasn't a creed sJha1 Liberty Laws we have
| published, were not personal liberty laws but
| only the regulations Of an engine company
down in New Brunswick. The Henry Viii
son you have read much about, and whose
speeches have been published is merely
| myth. There Is no such man. Charles Sumner is
| another myth-or a shadow, rather The genuine
Charles Sumner keeps an apple stand down in Mo-
bile. Horace Greeley is only dilapidated locofoco
He was repudiated by the so-called Republicans,
because they couldn't swallow his COMPOUNDED non
sense, twenty years ago. Willard Fillmore and
Edward Everett and Washington Hunt were turn
ed out of the party for allowing themselves to
be carried away with Abotionsm. In short dear
old South, we assure you that everything is all
right IN his direction. The people who have won
ha ao fLa ho,4 g.. Il r
slavery that ever breathed, and would no more run
off a niger than they would off cotton
gin or five thousand acre sugar plantation.
Now, we say, calm your fears, and come to bed.
In the touching language of one of our Rhode Is
land poetesses, clay up nearer" Don't be afraid.
Snuggle up! Wendell Phillips is in the bed, Just
now, it is true, and Frederick Douglass, and Ger
rift Smith. But just you say the word, and they
will be kicked out Only wanted their votes, you
see! They aren't anybody, now that election has
gone by. And as for the small fry-the common
sort-we give you our word and honor that the
(socalled) Republican leaders cared fig for
them. Probably they don't expect anything; but
if they do, it only shows that they are weak in
their noodles, and ought not to be gratifed. At
any rate, they will not get anything. The victori-
Gus party is the real, genuine, double and twisted
Union party. 1t goes the whole figure for the
South for free trade in Africans for anything, in
short, that you want.
This is our &c sreachment' to the South, and it
contains great deal more truth than poetry. We
IT.,
hope the Journal will be.
One serious word, in conclusion. The South need
not go out of the Union. 1t can make more out of
this Republican victory than it could have made
out of fifty Republican defeats straight-out Re-
publican said to us on Monday, 'In six days we
have gone back twenty years. We are worse off
than we when Willard Fillmore left the Presi-
dency. We have frightened ourselves out of our
wits, and by the 4th of March there will be nothing
LEFT of US" It is all true, The people have been
"taken in and done for" Abe Lincoln will do
nothing for them. Sambo will be turned adrift.
The North is to be cheated; the South has only to
hold its peace to be conciliated. 1t can have as
many sugar plums as it wants, if it will only furnish
the cotton.-Prouidence Post.
THE PERSONAL LIBERTY ACT of Massachusetts was
passed by the famous Know Nothing Legislature of
1855, over the veto of Governor Gardner. The
next year, bill was passed through three stages
of the popular branch of the Legislature for its re-
peal, and, upon the test vote, the measure had a
majority of some fifteen votes. The news of the
assault upon Senator of Massachusetts, in the
National Capitol, was received the next day, and
the bill for the repeal of the Personal Liberty Act
was defeated the vote upon its engrossment. But
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