New-York tribune., 1867-06-27
uELPERS "NOJ0OUE.D

while hardly yet of age, was drawn to Calllor-
MIA by the marvel5 related of her wealth in
gold nearly twenty years ago. A brief resi-
denco in that region of activity and adventure
suficed to convince him of the immense supe-
| riority of Free to Slave Labor as the basis OF
social prosperity and progress; and he returned
| TO the Atlantic slope q vehement c0ntemncr OF
Slavery and sIavc-owners His new views were
act forth in volume entitled "The Impending
Crisis,n which, because of its Southern origin
and its unsparing rhetoric, secured very large
| SALE mainly at the North. eight to ten years
ago. The facts it embodied, tho sentiments 1T
diffused, might have been far moro wisely and
less Extensively presented yet they contributed
to call attention to the utter incompatibility OF
Slavery with Liberty, and so subseryed a tenn
porary purpose.
Mr.. Helper sympathized with the Republi-
cans in so far as they sought to limit or to
extngush Slavery; but he was still essentially
n Southern Poor White in his antpatly to
negroes and mulattOcs, whom he, with the
blind prejudice of lis caste, made somehow
responsible for the degradation of Labor and
the Laborng Poor. He took no pains to con-
ceal in his "Crsis" his scornful hate of the
Blacks; and he has now developed and inten-
sjfed that malcvoence in volume entitled as
ob6ve whereof the avowed object Is the crea
ton (or Inflammation of public sentiment
which will drive the Blacks, and (in facD all
other races but the Caucasian, speedily off this
continent, and ultimately out of existence.
That with such n purpose he should write
mean, low, hateful, vcnomous book, was ineyi-
table but his maledctons on the unoilending
Blacks are so furious and screecly as to evoke
n suspicion that he is Intentionally carica'urng
and sairizing. by monstrOus cxaggcration, the
views whiclI he seems to commend. But
Helper is not a DcfOe nor q Dean Swift: he
really knows no better than to fancy that the
Nineteenth Century will accept such doctrines
as these
'Cert1n it tlf,t owe it to ourselves we ought
70 be abc0 get nd of The negoe, s3o pu' u ,n.y nis
20 remain much longer in the United stAts NHch mny
God In His great mercy, forbid 10 We may - Nc' Dun
immediately for then reei ana ~ m a ny
from the Atlantic 10 tle Pacific. nnd upon the same pan
rangd Cf Sees rop o, S sgrioT TO hc n of Mexico
All the deybsgoten inps of darkHs whc.hsI o.aSk OF
brown, whchCT negroes or lahns Mhelnei h.ngols VI
nulatocs should at bc dismissed and tsn forever
from the care, from the sigis, ana even Ho'a 'ne
wherever existing the baCt and Colorcd RACES afe e
very pcrsouhcatons of shstartJ ana bcggAy. IN
Of dishonor and wsaknc-s; they the fayOFed aud
unwelcome instruments of dirscryice they are Tue sa.ty
types Of cncteneSs and ret nsIes1'p ~ ~ ' s
practicable moment these utile and hantihi rl'mcs
Of our population must be chsrdcposNd or ios'l,"
Here is the manner in which Helper regards
aod charactcrizes Impartial Sufiragc;
''rhs !, the ncorrg bic and grovcling inonmu' nr"n
ing the rif of unycr al sufrac This the loath-ore
mi cKccrahle wrstch frank smclli'g nrd hideos
1T ~ have voice In tho enactment ~ llV' Tor Tue gov
ernnent OF The America people shall ss e%nier t'
moor-ths hiaeous and ssank scebod ldio1i Nol Nhy
mott Because he does got know and nrOW
say tte least. be act of gus' MY ON our /
~ an ,Io,e., GOD ~ Sarrs bas ly,o.l aud for ali
time, denied him the power - DO Ihc ~ ent haiI WI
io n,ptinE Ia pro, the equality ~ the sud IN the
drafting OF absurd laws for - recognition iG'cd iaih
Is a citizen OF the United states might With eqnl pro
priety busy Themselves n thS ridculouf iratonIy ~
iramns codes for allowing = gorilla and hs nsIa S
the ornng outang TO iseiify IN sonr's Of olsy nm IN
Con gTess both biash aud beware
Mr. Helper leaves no reader IN aoubt ~ To
hi, utter detestatioD OF BE RcpuSlican party |
and all it, works and ways Ills dsunentions,
Of the gaat majority N Congress for their 1
rflots To- secure justice and fair play t0 the !
Blacks are. scarcely less txecping and furious |
hansthose he burls at tle Blacks themselves; |
bOueh be somewhat lhconsistcntly) seems |
willing - lct the mcmlsIs of Congress live. /
put only IN ohscIrity, ana utter disgince- He .
says:
"a, tlsro be > full abd iled determination tho
part Of the American poopic on thc pant ~ he people
Df each state, respectively tnt, with few honorable
sxeptons, no member ~ tD senate, no member ot the
House OF Representatives Who voted for the Negro /
Bureau b or Tor any one Iihc thousand ahd one ohtr
black denominations df The Black congress sha ever |
again be elevated To OHcoof honor must under
e those guIsful lea-ous frnmes ~ statutes
DO msds o sce that treason n themselves ust The zane
md punished and further that much greater Is The
rnOrmty of their own treason han The treason 81 the ra
paCGod only against the Greassan blo0ded Inhabitants
lf u single commonwealth, (and few negroes whether
signs have been e' eed against the general and peculiar
welfare sI the Whites Of the whole wozd"
---Wehave cOpiedquitc enough Of this wretched /
lamago; but with a purpose. Careless, easy |
people say, "Thr Republican varty hats fulfilled |
= its mission. Slavery being abolished 1t may |
" now give place To other organizations, based !
" on fresh and Living issues" Helper shows the |
mtility and peril of such calculations
shows that IA great and generous party of
Liberty, based not on Wrath and Hate but on
Justice and Generosity, is to-day Indispensable
that its disappearance would involve the whole
land in anarchy AND bloodshed through "A war
fare of race upon race-of color against color.
Whatever its errors, the Republican party can
not yet be spared, even If it had no higher use
than to hold Ia check and keep the Democratic
party from committing itself to such insane
and brutal rawlings those of Hinton Rowan
Helper.
III President johnson is blind enough 10 inn
agine that he can stand up against the whole
loyal North, and defeat the maturcd resolve of
tLe nation NV n hit of chicanprV IL il clear