Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-12-07
THE Journal.
oHeIper', Sentiments.

,,t week we published short extract from
c;.,ro Democrat, commenting severely on the
oi,tment of Helper, author of THE Impen-
"t' ar Crisis of the South" as Consul to Buenos
sos Some of our citizens who profess to be
..,ort Republicans, thought the article unjust
=, rncaIled for With such we respectfully diff
e., II is the province Of an independent jour
-, TO comment upon whatever profits or inter
,.,. readers and especially at the present time
rron whatever may possibly initiate against the
,ntorests of our loved but distracted country.
We are uncompromisingly for the preservation
/ \, the American Union and have no more SYM
ratby for the mad, incendiary fanatic, than for
.ho Southern rebel. We look upon one as in
4 rroat measure the cause. and the other in some
sori the effect and believe the Shasta Courier was
ricbt in asserting that rebellion is aboIionism. If
President Lincoln, in our judgment, has made an
onpointment which will have tendency to damp
tbe ardor of the Union cause, it was our privi-
lere and duty to say so Now we have conclud-
ed to give our readers, from this man Helpers
own pen, our reasons for endorsing the article
from the Sierra Democrat, and if in our commu-
nitv there are any hackers of Helper incendia-
rsm, we beg to be considered as not among
that ilk.
Helper starts out with the bold proposition
that he is on AJolitionis, one of the same school
that now denounce President Lincoln as Z" the
slavehound of Illinois, and the " the unlocked
for assistant of Beauregard and Davis" On
page 25 of his "Impending Crisis" he says
"Then we are an aboltionist? Yes not mere
ly freesoler, but an aboitionist in the fullest
sense of the term. We are not only in favor of
keeping slavery out of the territories, but carry
ing our opposition to the institution step fur
ther, we here unhestatingly declare ourself in
favor of its immediate and unconditional aboli-
tion, in every state in this confederacy, where it
now exists ~
On pages 50 and SO, he says:
owe shall not recognize property in man the |
slaves of The South are not worth groat in any |
civilized community ; no man of genuine decen.
cy and refinement would hold them property |
on any terms in the eyes of all enlightened ma
tions and individuals, they are men, not merchan-
die. Southern pro-savery politicians, some of
whom have not hesitated to buy and sell their |
own sons and daughters, boast that the slaves Of
the South are worth sixteen hundred millions of
dollars, and we have seen the amount estimated |
as high as two thousand million"
On page 1l6:
I" In this extraordinary crisis of affairs, no man |
can be true patriot without first becoming an
abolitionist. "a freesoiler is only tadpole in
an advanced state of Transformation /; an aboli
zionist is the full and perfectly developed frog.)"
On page 1lS he gives his definition of Southern
"gentlemen" as follows
"And here, by the way, we may as we'll ex
plain whom we refer to when we speak of gen
tlemen of the South. We say, therefore, that
deeply impressed with the conviction that slave
ry is great social and political evil. sin and
a crime in the fullest sense, whenever we speak |
of gentlemen of the South, or of Gentlemen any
where, or at whatever time, or in whatever con-
nection we may speak of gentlemen, we seldom
aude to Shareholders, for the simple reason that
with few exceptions, we cannot conscientiousy
recognize them as gentlemen. 1t is only in those
rare instances where the crime is mitigated by
circumstances over which the STAKEHOLDER has
had no control, or where he himself, convinced of
the mpropriety, the folly and the wickedness of
the institution, is anxious to abolish it, that we
can sincerely apply to him the sacred appellatlon
in question-an appeaton which we would no
sooner think of applying to pro-slarery slave
holder, or any other proslavery man, than we
would think Of applying it to border ruilian,
thief, murderer"
On pages 1870 and l4O he says
ave mean precisely what our words express
when we say we believe thieves are, as general
rule, less amenable to the moral law than slave
holders"
We contend, moreover, that Shareholders are
more criminal than common mnvderers."
Here is his classification of Southerners- page
~:
"In the Southern States, as in all other slave
countries there are three odOus classes of man.
kind the slaves themselves, who towards ; +
the Shareholders, who are tyrants and the non
savehoding slave e-hrers, who are lickspittles.-
Whether either class is really entitled to the re-
CARDS of gentleman is q matter of grave doubt
The slaves are pitiable the shareholders are de-
testabe the slave hirers are contemptible.'
On page l49 he proves the power and means of
immediate emancipation, and declares his unal
terable resolution to accomplish his purpose
$50 it seems that the total number of actual
save-owners, including their entire crew of GRIN |
ging lickspittes, against whom we have to con-
tend, is but three hundred and forty five thousand
five hundred and twenty five. Against this army
for the defense and propagation of slavery, we
think it will be an easy matter-tndependent OF |
the negroes, sc0 in nine out Of ten, ,oould be
delighted w,h an opportunity to cat their master
throats and without accepting of single recruit
from either of the free States, England, France
or Germany-to muster one at least three times
Us large, and far more respectable, for its utter
extinction. We hope, however, and believe, that
the matter in dispute may be adjusted without
arraying these armies against each other in hos
tile attitude. We desire peace, not war-justice,
not blood. Give us fairplay secure to us the
right of discussion, the freedom of speech, and
we will settle the difficulty at the ballot.box, not
on the battle ground-by force of reason, not by
force of arms. But we are welded to one pur-
pose from which no earthly power can ever di-
voroe us. We are determined to abolish slavery
at all hazards-in defiance of all the opposition,
of whatever nature, which it is possible for the
slavocrats to bring against us. OF this they may
take due notice, and govern themselves accor-
dinghy"
On pages 155 and 156 he gives his first and
mild plan for the extinction of slavery:
1st Thorough organization and independent
POLITICAL action on the part of the non -savehold-
ing whites of the South
End. Ineligibility Of slaveholders-never ano-
thor vote tn the trafficker in human fash