The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-07-04
HELPERS "NOJGQUE."

WEALTH. III gnu G"Clty NCalo oS9O. II
brief residence in that region of activity and
adventure sutficed to convince him of the
immense superiority OF Free to Slave Labor
as the basis of social prosperity and pro
gress and he returned to the Atlantic slope
vehement contemner of Slavery and. slave
owners. HIS new views were set forth in a
volume entitled "The Impending Crisis,
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, the sentiments
it diffused, might have been far more wisely
and less Extensively presented; yet they con-
tributed to call attention to the utter in
compatibility of slavery with liberty, and so
subserved L temporary purpose
Mr.. Helper sympathiZed with the Repub-
licans in so far as they sought to limit or to
extinguish slavery; but he was still essen
TALLY Southern poor white in his antipathy
to negroes and mulattoes whom he, with
the blind prejudice of his caste. made some
how responsible for the degradation of la
Dor and the laboring poor. He took no pains
to conceal in his crisis" his scornful hate
of the blacks and he has now developed
and intensified that n aevoence in a volume
entitled as above. whereof the avowed OBJ
ject is the creation (or int1ammation) of u
public sentiment which will drive the blacks
and Tin fact) all other races but the Caucas-
ian, speedily off this continent, and ultimate
ly out of existence.
That with such a purpose he should
write a mean. low, hateful, venomous book,
was inevitable but his malediction on the
unotfending blacks are so furious and
screechy as to evoke a suspicion that he is
Intentionally caricaturing and satrizing, by
monstrous eXaggeration, the views which he
seems to commend. But Helper is not De-
foe nor Dean Swift he really knows no
better than to fancy that the Nineteenth
century will accept such doctrines as these
Certain it is that we owe it to ourselves
and we ought to be able-to get rid of
the negroes soon; but if they are to remain
much longer in the United States (Which
may God, In His great mercy, forbid ~ we
may as well build Immediately, for their re-
| lief and correction, in alternate adaptation, a
row OF hospitals and prisons, all the way
! from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and, upon
the same plan, a range or series OF aims
houses end penitentaries the entire distance
! from Lake Superior to the Cult of Mexico
All the devil-begOtten imps of darkness,
whether black or brown, whether negroes or
Indians, whether Mongols or mulattoes,
should at once be dismissed, and that forever,
from the care, from the sight, and even from
the thoughts, of the Heaven-born whites
Wherever seen or wherever existing, the
black and bi-colored races are the very per-
sonifcations of bastardy and beggary. In
America, these races are the most unwieldly
occasioners of dishonor and weakness; they
are the CHASTITY types of effeteness and retro
erosion. At the earliest practicable moment,
these inutile and baneful elements of our
population must be either deported or fos-
silized."
Here is the manner in which Helper re-
CARDS and characterizes Impartial Suffrage:
This is the incorrigible and groveling
ignoramus upon whom it is proposed to con-
fer at once the privilege of voting-the right
of universal suffrage! This is the loathsome
and most eXecrable wretch frank smelling and
hideous arch-criminal that he is) who has
been mentioned as one fit to have voice in
the enactment of laws for the government
of the American people! Shall we confer
the elective franchise on this base-born and
ill-bred blarkamoor-this hideous skunk
scented IDIOT No! Why not! Because
he does not know, and cannot know, how
to vote intelligently. 1t would, therefore, to
say the least, be an act of gross folly on our
part, to extend to the negro the privilege of
doing what the omnipotent God of Nature
has obviously, and for all time, denied him
the power to do. Those of our half-witted
and demagogical legislators who waste
time in attempting to prove the equality of
the negro, and in the drafting of absurd
laws for his recognition in good faith as a
citizen of the United States, might, with
equals propriety, busy themselves in the ri
diculous irrationality of framing codes for
allowing the gorilla and the chimpanzee to
attend common schools, and for the baboon
and the orang-outang to testify IN courts of
equity Let the laundering and baneful two
thirds majority of the black Congress both
blush and beware"
Mr.. Helper leaves no reader in doubt as to
his utter detestation of the Republican party
and all its works and ways. His denuncia-
lions of the great majority in Congress for
their efforts to secure justice and fair play to
the blacks are scarcely less sweeping and flu
rious than those he hurls at the blacks them
selves; though he somewhat inconsistently)
seems willing to let the members of Con-
gress live but only in obscurity and utter
disgrace. He says:
LET there be full and settled determin-
alton on the part of the American people, on
the part OF the people of each State, respect
lively, that, with Il few honorable exceptions,
no member OF the Senate, no member of the
House of Representatives, who voted for the
Negro Bureau bill, or for any one of the
thousand-and-one other black denominations
of the Black Congress, shall ever again be
elevated to any office of honor or trust under
the Government of the United States. On
the contrary, let those guileful and nefarious
trainers of black statutes be made to see that
treason in themselves, just the same as trea-
son in others, is a thing to be specifically
detested and punished and further, that SO
much greater is the enormity of their own
treason than the treason of the traitor jeff.
Davis, that, whereas his perfidious purposes
were praeticed only against the Circassian-
blooded inhabitants of single common
wealth, (and few negroes, whether few or
many, not worth the mention,) their wicked
designs have been leveled against the gener-
al and peculiar welfare of the Whites of the
whole world"
We have copied quite enough of this
wretched farrago; but with a purpose
Careless, easy people say, "The Republican
party has fulfilled its mission. Slavery
being abolished, it may now give place to
other organizations, based on fresh and liv-
ing issues" Helper shows the futility and
peril of such calculations shows that a
great and generous party of Liberty, based
not on Wrath and Hate but on Justice and
Generosity, is to-day indispensable-tha it's
disappearance would involve the whole land