Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-07-26
The ImpendingC CrEsis-HeIper and
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The New York World introduces the note
below, from Helper, the author of the
Impending Crisis, against negro equality,
with this notice. d ..i.s s..s..f.-ss5u. q
Helper, of the "Impending Crisis" writes
US a note, published elsewhere, in defence
of himself against the Misrepresentation
of his Repu blican confreres, who think his
' Nojoque"t book no joke at all. The only
difference we perceive between Helper and
the people whom he once helped by his
former book is, that Helper scorhs the ne
gro wholly, while the Radicals scorn him,
except as a tool to get political power:
To the Editor of the World. & --
S1R-May L correct, through the columns
of the World, d few items of the very uIi-
warrantable representation which some
of the newspapers are now making in.ref-
erence to my new book In the first place,
the designation of the work as a -.Black
Bo0lt,v ISL contend, positive misnomer.
An exactly opposite or contrary designa-
ton would certainly be much more in ac-
cordanee with the truth. This will be sufi-
GENTLY apparent when L tell you that the
work contains two ochapterS (among others)
one of which is headed BLACK, "A Thing of
Ugliness, Disease and Death" and the
other s.White, A Thing of Life. Health and
BEAUTY, and further,S that 1t was a part of
copy of the book should ever be bound in
black. You will readily perceive, there
fore, that with more correctness, pernIps,
than could belused in regard to any other
work that has ever been published in this
Orany other country, sNejoque' might be
designated or described as a WHITE Book.
1t is not true that was recalled from my
Consulship in Buenos Ayres. More than
two years ago l voluntarily resigned that
Office. Between the party now in power
aud myself there is this difference: While
they have degeperated from their national
and constitutional character as Republic
cans, and have become Radicals, and are
sectional, am still Republican, white
/ fRepublican-and am not sectional.
I There is no truth whatever in the state
ment that / was ever an advocate or cham .
Ppion of any black thing, certainly of no
animated sfblacki thing;H for the few
bblack aais things that lnE possess ex-
Icellent qualities, are all inanimate. / have
always maintained, and stillmaintain, that
I we shall have at the South great States, like
byou have here at the North, only when our
Estates there, like yours here, shall be peo-
/ pied exclusively,or or in manner exclusive
| ly by white men, white women, and white
children - On these subjects, the old line
abelitiohists and myself always disagre eed.
i j was quite as strenuously opposed to
NEGRO citizenship. negro suffrage, negro
Testimony, negro jurors, and negro gener-
lIalfy, in 1857 as am in 1867. / then, in my
Is Impending Crisis of the Sonth.' gave un-
reserved ex xpression to my dislike of both
slavery and negroes; and now, in my
r. Nojoque," negroes and slavery have been
hportrayed and denounced as the chief OBJ
jects of my A6ispleasure. L believe l was
fright then and believe am right now.
Certain it is that there has been no change
Jimmy views, and that no Inconsistency of
essay For statement can be pointed out or
shown as existing in or between the two
books here mentioned. Abundant evidence
of this fact is furnished in the eighth chap
i ter of .'Nojoque," which is headed, and
which embraces " Thirteen Kindred Pages
from The Impending Crisis OF the Sonth.'
| Bad as slavery was, it was not slavery
alone that retarded the Southern. States
| The negro race itself was, and is, the very
basis of our backwardness throughout all
the South. Under slavery, the negro race
increased so fast as to cause, at times, serious
lapprehensionS that the gloomy and dele
terious pail OF blackness would soon be
spread over the entire southern half of our
continent. Under the more just and ben
eficial operations of freedom. the black and
bi-colored inhabitants of our country are
gradually yielding (and ought not, in any
! way, to be hindered or restrained from
yielding) their unworthily-filled places to
the whites, who are, in every respect. inf
nitely superior and better, and therefore
far more desirable. It seems to me that, as
a matter of simple fairness and justice tc
the whites, and also as a matter of proper
concern for the welfare of others, we ought
to find for the blacks home somewhere
beyond the present limits of the United
States. a-1F
Those who have ascribed to me the orr
; gin of the title of my new book are mis-.
taken. got the word on the Pacific coast
of our possessions at least sixteen year.
ago, and it is there descriptive of thing
of great value. tns is,i
HINTON Rowan HELPER.
NEW YORK, July %.