Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1867-07-05
WHAT WILL TuEY DO WITH THEM.

II will, be recollected what an excitement
was produced few years before the war by
the appearance of work called the I'm
pending crisis" written by one Hinton Row
an Helper. ltwas essentially abolition, coun-
selling even the insurrection of the then slaves
and the murder OF their then masters. It's
spirit was SO fendish as to be indulged as a
sweet morsel by the Black Republican party.
II received the Endorsement Of nearly all Of
the members of Congress belonging to that
political organization. II was circulated as
a campaign document by Its National Exec
utive Committee. John Sherman was defeat
ed for the Speakership of the national House
of Representatives, few of what was called
the North Americans declining TO vote for
the .,endorsers of such atrocious sentiments.
Helper again appears as an author. We learn
from the Cincinnati CcmnerciaL that he has
written another book. "Eojoqpe; Question
for Continent" be calls it. He favors now
the expulsion or determination OF all blacks
mulattoes and non-whites from the United
States. The dedication reads as follows:
ITO the most enlightened and progressive
portion Of the people of the New World, who
have the far reaching foresight, and the man.
ly patriotism to determine irreyocably, BY
their votes in l668-72, sooner or later, that
after the 4th of July, 1876, Tor at the very
furthest after the LIST of January, ls00,) no
slave, nor would be slave; no negro nor mu-
latto; no Chinaman nor unnative Indian; no
black nor bi-colored individual of whatever
name or nationality, shall ever again find
domicil anywhere within the boundaries Of
the United States of America"
He assertj that the sbest and only true
remedy for the present and prospective
troubles now brewing in the United States
is ian absolute and eternal separation Of the
races"
His plan, the Commercial truly says, is al
most grand in its simplicity aud magnificent
disregard Of all possible or contingent diff
culties or obstacle. He proposes merely 10
give
"Full and formal notice to the negroes
every one Of them, including all mulattoes,
the quadroons, the octoroons, snd oil the 9th
er non-whites--that, after the 4th of July,
1857, their presence would be no longer re-
quired or tolerated north OF the Northern
boundary of Mexico; and assist them to a
limited extent, to get somewhere (it would
matter very little where) south OF that south
moving boundary"
This exodus accomplished, our work would
be only half done; for, In our future policy
ave should SO far yield to the evident de-
signs and purposes Of Providence, as to be
both willing and anxious to see the negroes,
like the Indians and all other eifete and din
gy hued races, gradually exterminated from
the face OF the whole earth"
Having thus prescribed the abolition Of the
negroes as national necessity, Mr.. Helper
proceeds to show, from the writings of Agas-
sz, Burmeister, Jefferson, Sr Charles Lyell
and whole host Of anthropologists, that the
doomed race is inferior, Of a separate crea.
tion, and az nearly related to the ape as the
man; and hence4has no "rights which W hitG
men are bound to respect;' and these ht
backs up with the advice given by Mr.. Lin.
coin in 1862, "to a'deputation Of beggarl,
negroes, who had waited upon him in refer,
cree to his scheme Of colonization" in which
the difference of race was insisted upon, ant
the existence Of their race among US assign
ed as the cause Of the then existing war.
| From such authorities as these our Helper
comprehensively concludes, that
/ "On the premises OF no respectable whit,
person on tue mansion OF no honorable pri
rate citizen; in no lawfully convened publ,
assembly; in no nationally moral or religious
society; in no decently kept botel; in NJ
restaurant worthy of the patronage of whit,
people; in no reputable store or shop iu nj
place whatever where any occupant or visi
tor is Of Caucasisn blood should the loath
some presence of any negro or negress eve
be tolerated"
And of Indians, the nalayan, and othe
copper colored races, his opinion i littls ]
any better