The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-11-25
OMIT THE RAnICATS

Hinton Rowan Helper, or Nurtu ~,.---,
author of the "Impending Crisis" and for
merly one of the gods of the radical party,
has written an immensely long letter to the
National Lnteiiigencer protesting against
the radical plan OF reconstruction, by which
the ignorant negroes are the rulers of the
poor white people. He sends note to the
MtelIigencer, accompanying his communica-
ton, in which he says:
If, in your opinion, the publication OF the arti-
Gle would promote, even in part only, the object
at which have aimed-namcly, the imparting to
the public mind of the north more accurate and
adequate knowledge Of the actual and prospective
condition of things at the south, under tine black
and blighting sway of radicalsm-you may, if
you please, publish it in the columns of the In
teitigeneer Deeply impressed with the impor-
lance, at all times, of earnest and honest appeals
to mems reason, rather than to their passions OF
their prejudces, have purpOsely delayed writ
ing what | have here written until after the par
tial subsistence of the general excitement and
confusion which have but so recently atteEded
the great elections in many of the whittier and
(therefore) better parts of our country
II. r. HELPER.
The article which he writes for the Intel
kgencer and which occupies a whole page OF
that large paper, is too long for our columns
1t opens as follows
To che Good People of the Old Free States:
More than ten years ago, many OF you viii
recollect, l. Carolinian, made special appeal to
your enlightened and patriotic judgments in behal.
OF large majority of the white people the south
ern states-the -saveholding whites-who
whether they knew it not, were greatly OBJ
pressed and impoverished by the unfortunate exis
tence among us of negroes and negro slavery. The
generous hearing which you then according t.
me inspires with confidence that you are
| again prepared to listen to any protest, com.
| plant, or other statement from me, that has fol-
! its basis truth and justice. Thus surmising
respectfully request that you will favor will
| your attention while explain, while l endeav
| or to explain that the great mass of the poo
! whites here, in whose behalf have especially
| and persistently written, still enthralled
and that, within the last few years, the condition
| of their thraldom has been so aggravated that
| Is now in constant process of becoming worse AM
| worse, with the further and appalling danger
| under radical misrule, of being rendered unparal
leled and perpetual
We cannot spare room for the communi
cation IN FULL, but the writer shows beyond
doubt that the great mass of people of tn
south are worse off now than before tn
abolition of slavery; that they are oppresse
by the negroes, now, worse than they eve
were by the shareholders, and that any pla
of reconstruction which invests the ignorar
slaves, Unfortunately, with the right of su
frage, will be the means of depressing the whit
people. We make two or three extracts, a
follows. He says
We want, and will have, no re-establish
| ment Of slavery. 1t is safe to say that there ar
not to-day, in the whole state of North Carolin.
TWO hundred men, Of good standing or infiuenc,
who would, if they could, have slavery re-estat
: nshed. Indeed / doubt whether there are fv
J., thousand white men, in all the south, who woul
om, OF at any future time be so unwse, rasf
~, SO reckless as to undo the acts of emancipa
ia oa even II they had the power
osurd and useless for the radicals, Will
taoiy "mittin.- the black and baneful excesse
OF their Igislation, to tell ms in the n;t;fnl q,
tempt 10 e-,use their own gross Ignorance an
y | iu,y 'na' ~ numerical preponderanee of IN
d whites In tne ruth will save them from the cor
ruPIihe anu ue- oralzing influence of the nc
groes. AS wen h-,ht they tell us that mound
1t OF e's quah'i'y' If strychnine could do n
g Marin In narrei o. -four that nm ornoa
'i arsenic could aceomplI, no miscb;os a =; ounoe
e. meal; that vial of prus;c acid con,a PEN
| injury in pitcher of wat.. mr. tbst eneo' II
feverish and frantic with e,tay;on ,p', ,uio
communicate the efiuvium f',tal inssn,'e. he
score more of sane men.
c cause of its gross excuses, its shCtcomipps an
| its corruptions the first and NET simnor.al
lie thing necessary to be done, in ordea IN rsr'ea
| existing evils, is to utterly break down and ia
| troy the whole radical party-a party v icb.
:, its monstrous utilization with negroes, is bl,gr
utter abectness and ruin upon at least ten FAT
- of the Union, and disgracing and Gripping :
!, the others.