The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1862-02-15
The Helper Book Case.


B. Walton, removed from Hartford to
Cecil county, came up in Court on Tues
day last, for trial. Three witnesses were
called. Two of the witnesses said they
knew nothing about the case, and were
ordered by the Court to leave the sand;
the third called, testified that defendant
had loaned him the Helper book at
Friends meeting. This was the sum-
total Of the evidence produced before
the Grand Jury Of Hartford, at the Feb
ruary term Of he Circuit Court for 1861
held III Bel-Ai. For such an act
secession Grand Jury felt themselves
bound by their oath TO- indict neigAbor
and respectable citizen for crime, the
penalty for which is ten years in the
penitcntiary-a penalty but little less
than that tor murder.
Mr.. Samuel B. Walton was arraigncd
under the act of Assembly which forbids
the circulation of any books or pictures
calculated to stir up instruction among
the negroes of the State. The Helper
Book is collec ion by one Rowcn
Hinten Helper of the opinions of the
"great men " Of our country, who figured
in her early history, on the subject of
slavery !; among those are Washington,
Jefferson, and many of their cotempora-
ries. Statistics from the Census, compar.
ing the wealth of the several States show
ing the value of the products Of the free
States, to be superior 10 that Of the
slave States, with a vast amount of
statistical information which any intel
ligent man likes to acquire, in:erspersed
with Abolition comments-which Adolf
ton comments, doubtless, were believed
by this august Secession Grand Jury
OF Hartford county, to be dangerous to
the peace of the community and cal
culated to stir up inserrcction among the
negroes of that densely populated slave
county! by one Quaker gentlcman's
lending this book to his neighbor to read
both gentlemen being white men and
not negroes. Ohio Scot, of Hartford
county, who was employed on the side
of the State, said there was no proof,
and the case was dismissed.
BY referring Pthc date of this
indictment the reader will perceive the
bill was found when Secession was pre-
pairing its machinery, not for the prescr-
walton of peace and order and prevention
Of insurrection in the community, but
to create instruction and overthrow
the Government and no greater hot bed
had treason this side of Charleston,
South Carolina, than Be.-Air and its
vicinity.
Carroll Walsh, the Editor of that
lousy eight by ten Secession sheet,
sporting the hcraldic appellation of
The Southern .Eg,s, printed at Bel-air
and Astounding in low villainous Seces-
sion lies, was foreman of the Secession
Grand Jury that found bill on what
the best lawyer in Hartford coun'y-wi,h
a strong squirting toward secession too,
or else greatly belied by popular report
no evidence at all.
Saeh were the chains of tyranny that
the miniens of this " He'll born " con-
splracy were weaving for the people,
while they plotted in secret behind the
black screen of negroes, the overthrow
of the liberties of the nation, to found
upon the ruins of popular government
an aristocracy, the corner stone of which
new government Alexander II. Stephens,
the Nice-President of the rebel oligarchy,
declared had been rejected by the
builder; and that corner stone was no
more or less than negroes. But the
white millions of this country have
sworn that cabal of ambitious traitors
shall never make use of community of
negroes to rob them and their postcrity
of their liberties, in order that such
disgusting aristocracy may rule and
direct the dcstinies of this continent
They have taken up the sword to make
that oath good, and the shouts of victory,
borne on every breeze are telling how
that VOW is being executed
And in this day of the downfall of
treason, this snake egg of Secession,
removed from Hartford county, touching
the shores of Union loving and patriotic
Cecil, evaporates into thin air.
gas" Amongst the appointments Of State