American citizen., 1867-07-20


. preserve our honor, integrity, virtue
posterity and sclfrespect, by not on
ly abStaining from but earnestly
battling ag inst their antagonists
now and forever.
Yours, &c.
July.
A NEW WORK FROM HINTON ROW
AN HELPER
It viii be Iecollected, says tht
Memphis AcdiaRche, what an excite
ment was produced a fcay years be
fore the war by the appearance Of q
work called the :. Impending Crisis, y
written by one Hinton Rowan Help.
cr. 1t was essentially abolition.
counselling even the insulTectiOn of
the then slaves and the murder of
the then masters. Its spirit was
so fiendish as to be INDUCED as a
sweet mOrSel by the Black Rcpubli-
can party. it received the indorSe-
ment of nearly all Of the members Of
Congress belonging to that political
organization. 1t was circulated as a
campaign document by its National
Executive Committee. john Sher-
man was defeated for the Speaker
ship Of the national House Of Repre-
sentativcs, few Of what was called
the North Americans declining tc
vote for the cndOrscrS of such atr0ci-
GUS sentiments. Helper again ap-
pears as an author. We learn from
the Cincinnati Commercial that he
has written another book. "Noj0qne;
a Question for a Continent" he calls
it. lIe'tavorS now the expulsion or
determination Of all blacks, mulat-
toes and whites from the United
States. The dedication reads as fol
lows:
"To the most enlightened and pro
gressive portion Of the people OF the
New World, who have the far reach
ing foresight, and the manly patriot
ism to determine irrevocably, by
their votes in 1SGS-12, sooner or
later, that after tie 4th Of July, 1876.
(or at the very tllrthcrcst, after the lst
of January, 1909 no slave or would
be slave; no negro nor mulattO: no
Chinaman' nor unnativc Indian; no
black nor bi-c0lOrcd individual OF
whatever name or nationality, shall
ever again find domicil anywhere
within the boundaries Of the United
States of American
He asserts that the " best and only
true remedy for the present and pros,
pcctivc troubles now brewing in the
United States is san absolute and
eternal separation of the races"
His plan, the Commercial truly ,
says, is almost grand in its simplicity
and magnificent disregard of all pos
sible or contingent difficulties or OBJ
stacles. He proposes merely to
give
"Full and formal notice to the ne
grOcS-cvcry one Of them, including
all mulattoes, the quadroons, the oc-
toroons, all the other non-whiteS -
that, after the 4th of July, 1876, their
presence would be no longer required .
" tolerated North Of the Northern
boundary Of MeXico and assist them
o a limited extent to get somewhere
it would matter very little wherc) |,
south of that South-moving bound /,
n.y."
This exodus accomplished, our .
work would be but half done fer, III !
,ur future policy
"We should so far Weld to the cv-
dent designs and purposes of Provi- !
lence, as to he both willing and anX- ,
Gus to see the negroes, like the Ind ,
ans and all other Cticte and dingy .
lucd races, gradually cXterminatcd +
rom the face OF the whole earth"
Having thus prescribed the aboli- .
ion of the negroes as Il national ne :
essity, Mr.. Helper proceeds to show. q
rom the writings of AgaSSiz, Bur .
leiSter, jefferson. Sir Charles Lyell, /
nd a whole host of anthropologistS. !
hat the doomed race is inferior, of a !
eparatc creation, and as nearly re-
l ed to the ape as to the man; and
cncc has "no rights which white
Zen are bound to reSpect;" and these
e backs up with the advice given by il
Ir. Lincoln in 1862, ''tOa deputatiOn ;
t bcggarly negroes, who had waited ]
pom him, in reference to his scheme
colonization" in which the differ u
lce of race was insi ted upon, and Il
Ic existence of their race among IT'S, II
'SiSned rs the.cauSe of the then cX
ting war. .
From such authorities as these, our {
elper cOmprehensively concludes, !;
at,
"On the premises ofno respectable :"
lIite person: in the mansion of no W
private citizen in no law y
lily convened public assembly; in II
nationally moral or religious soci- ID
v; in no deccntly kept hotel in no ;,
Stauramt worthy of the patronage q
white people; in no reputable store "
shop; in no place whatever. where C
" occupant or visitor is of CaucaS- "
n blood, should the loathSome pres t'
ce of any negro or ncgreSS ever he :"
lerated." u
OF the Indians, the Malayans, and y
her copper colored races, his opin- y
n is little, if any, better. 7