The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-06-22
A BLACK BOOK.

| uorscd oy tho Congress OF tho United States, nn
which created such O terrific stir just beforo th
war, hns written nnothor volume, which ho call
"Nojoquo," ami which really, taking his proytou
book into consideration, Is no joke. Tho purpos
OF tho volume will bo seen by quoting from IL
preiacc-and we bog our colorcd roaders TO roinem
Der that this follow HELPER was ono Of tllcr firs
"friends "-onc among tho first Abolitionists-
wherein it is stuffed:
"Wcro to stalo hero frankly and cntegoricnly
thH n'iMAEg sgisst 81 ttlE M9Fl FiP il u5eaf u5e T
object IL to write him (nnd manifold millions :
other black and bi-colored cailifs, little botto
| would bo told.n
This il the koy to tho whole volume which Ia
bitter, passionate ycrboso crazod diatribe agains
black mon, with plea for thor "fossilzation" an,
an argument ngainst employing blacks, feotint
thcm, educating them, or having thom around il
my way. Mr.. HELPER says:
IhSrS zero, iS it Is believed peculiar tnoss in th
by ono who had Previously mado q thorough ex
position OF tho political follies and oorruptions O
tho negro owncrs themselves.
| E'ldenoss shall no longer bo wanting TINT eoot
men, tho very best mon in nl tho worid-the real
salt OF tho carth-Inay be hearty haters OF slave
ry, and; at tho Same timo, unconditional dotest
TO 1.-Two IN juxtarosition with tho negro, or t,
tolerate his presence oven in tho vicinity of white
mon, ie TO say tho lcart, most shameful and dis
sisted in. will, sooner or later, bring down upor
those who nre guilty ofit tho overwhelming ven
| gcanco OF Honvcn =. ~
| This book is very lively reading, and is hardly
less disgusting than Ivoly. Wo mako few OK
tracts
strikingly apparent is it that tho negro ia q fol-
low of many natural defects and deformitios, Not
only is Eo cnreedwith b1nck complexion an apisI
aspect and woolly head ho is also rendered
booby brain: An accurate description Of him
calls into requisilion larger number OF uncon.
BmGn,tary terms than arc necessary to be used in
| it is truly astonishing how many OF tho terms 80
peculiarly appropriate 10 him arc compound words
! OF obioquy and detraction.
Tho catalogue Of epithet which follows this auo-
tation shows thnt Mr.. HELPER is mastor both oil
compound and simple words Of obloquy:
1--WE hato them with perfect
hatrod," ns they deserve to be hated and as wo
are required and expected to hnte tho2i, we shall
thercby render highly acceptable and pleasing gcr-
vice to tho Dcty; and, continuing to please him,
WI secure for ourselves unlimited and everlasting
wo must 'nsider nttentirely oil thoir mean and
loathsomo characteristics; md from tho sum total
Judgments, quickly perceive that, lko hyonns,
1aokas. wolves, skunks, rats, snakes, acorpions,
spiders contiPedes locusts, chinches, Heas, lice,
upon tho earth to DO loved and preserved, hut.
under the unobsructed and snlutary operations OF
the laws 81 nature to be permitted to decay and
ho % u s 2GsE Ris9 If 9ha
no lawfully convened public assembly; in no "a. a.
tonnlly moral or religious society; in no decently
kopt hotel in no restaurant worthy Of tho patron
age Of white people; in no rcputebIy established
store nor shop; in no p!nce whatever where any
occupant or visitor is OF Caucasian blood, should
tne thsome presence OF any neRro or Negroes
This is tho loathsomo and most e1ecrablo yrotcl,
crank smelling and hideous arch criminal III at ho
| iH1 who has beon mentioned one fit to have q
v9ipS IN tho enactment Of laws for tho government
Not only do wo mean 10 hire, and have about us,
wlito persons only, but with due regard 10 public
our whito noighbors and countrymcn shall do SO
lkcwise. ~ s- ~ u ~ :
High time is It That tho deceitfulness and trick
ory OF this color cry OF tho twothirds majority OF
tho Black Congress, and OF other Black Republic
cans, should be unmoasurodly exposed, denounced,
reprobated- No longer must tho clamorous and
eanting clowns OF the Black Congress, nor their
or screen their deep-dyed completely with tho
crtmes Of On accursod raco, by tho jargon-like or
trog-liko cry OF Color Color Colort
In tho oraac and jumbo Of this book tho author
gcts things fearfuily miIod. On pago 25s he cries
'down with tho pig-headod President" and on
page 276 he speaks OF the President as an cable
and incorruptble statesman"
We think our readers can bear littlo Of this
book evon at this hot season, It is q monument
Of folly and sophism, o budget OF tho most rock
less assertion, and tho patLos and buncombe oil
tho book aro ftly expressed in tho following sent-
cnco, which closes chapter with "whim !"
Depart, therefore, ye wicked and abandoned
blacks, into tho regions or; dagkneas and deep
despair and oblivion prepared for you, and for ali
akin to you, from The foundation Of tho world and