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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 1. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Origin of the late war. (search)
ore suffering. To expect that the attempt to cast a lighted match into a powder magazine would fail more than once, would be chimerical indeed. In considering the value of his defences under the constitution, a Southern man could not well forget that Mr. Seward, the leader of the party in power, had not only declared the conflict between freedom and slavery to be irrepressible, but had affirmed there was a higher law than the constitution, to which the latter must yield, or that the famous Helper book, endorsed and recommended generally by the Republican members of Congress, declared that our own banner is inscribed: no co-operation with slaveholders in politics; no fellowship with them in religion; no affiliation with them in society; no recognition of pro-slavery men, except as ruffians, outlaws and criminals. Again: we are determined to abolish slavery at all hazards. With such a history of the administration of the constitution by the party in power, there was no very pleasant o
James Redpath, The Roving Editor: or, Talks with Slaves in the Southern States., My second trip. (search)
accuse me of unfriendliness to the slaveholders. See how willing I have been to put their honorable and patriotic sentiments on record! V. North Carolina. Weldon, North Carolina, is a hamlet, or town, or city --I do n't know what they call it-consisting of a railroad depot, a hotel, a printing-office, one or two stores, and several houses. Whether it has increased in population or remained stationary since my visit to it-September 26, 1854-I have now no means of ascertaining. Mr. Helper, author of that valuable anti-slavery volume-The impending Crisis of the South --informs me that it is now a town of 700 inhabitants. Talk with a young slave. In returning from a walk in the woods, by which Weldon is surrounded, I came up to a young negro man who was lying on the ground in the shade of a tree, holding a yearling ox by a rope. Is that all you have got to do? I asked. No, mass'r, said he; I's waitina for a waggon to come 'long. I entered into a conversatio
Ernest Crosby, Garrison the non-resistant, Chapter 10: Garrison and the Civil war (search)
uld not be employed in the North in raising wheat as well as in the South in raising cotton, except that the Northerners did not want them, and heredity as well as climate goes to account for the difference. Mr. Simons himself quotes from the work of an ante-bellum author a reference to German settlers who, true to their national instincts, will not employ the labor of a slave. And in fine, as if to show how little he is convinced by his own arguments, Mr. Simons says of this same volume (Helper's Impending crisis ), This book had a most remarkable circulation in the years immediately preceding the war, and probably if the truth — as to the real factors which made public opinion could be determined, it had far more to do with bringing on the Civil War than did Uncle Tom's Cabin --which involves an admission as to the latter book as well as to the former. Books and arguments and ideals had their leading part to play in the abolition of slavery, and the very adversaries of the belief
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 4: (search)
blicly recommending, in connection with sixty-eight other Republican Congressmen, a fanatical document popularly known as Helper's book. This publication, thus endorsed by Black Republicans, and circulated by them in the Northern elections, openly dted, or classed with gangs of licensed robbers, thieves, and murderers. But it was not only the wretched ribaldry of the Helper book that was the cause of excitement; the designs there declared of war upon the South, and recommended by an array of Black Republican names, were the occasion of the most serious alarm. It is true that Mr. Sherman, the Helper book candidate for the speakership of the House, was finally withdrawn, and one of his party, not a subscriber to the book, elected. But the have thus, in a rapid summary of political events from 1857 to 1860-the Kansas controversy, the John Brown raid, and the Helper book imbroglio-enabled the reader to discover and combine some of the most remarkable indications of the coming catastrop
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Chapter 13: closing years (search)
had little acute pain. He lay all night in peace, and died in the morning, one of the relatives present reciting softly his poem At last, as he passed away. This poem, written ten years before, is his best epitaph. At last When on my day of life the night is falling, And, in the winds from unsunned spaces blown, I hear far voices out of darkness calling My feet to paths unknown. Thou who hast made my home of life so pleasant, Leave not its tenant when its walls decay; O Love Divine, O Helper ever present, Be Thou my strength and stay! Be near me when all else is from me drifting; Earth, sky, home's pictures, days of shade and shine, And kindly faces to my own uplifting The love which answers mine. I have but Thee, my Father! let Thy spirit Be with me then to comfort and uphold; No gate of pearl, no branch of palm I merit, Nor street of shining gold. Suffice it if — my good and ill unreckoned, And both forgiven through Thy abounding grace-- I find myself by hands familiar bec
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 17. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Life, services and character of Jefferson Davis. (search)
itution itself was unconstitutional, and that it was not in the power of man to create by oath or mandate property in a slave—a revolutionary idea striking to the root and to the subversion of the fundamental law which Washington, Adams, Franklin, Hamilton, Madison, and their compeers had joined in making, and under which the United States had fought its battle and attained its wonderful growth for three-quarters of a century. The Northern giant—free white labor. The impending crisis, Helper's book, appeared, and, endorsed by sixty-eight abolition members of Congress, went far and wide. The spirit of the times is indicated in its doctrines. Never another vote for a slavery advocate; no co operation with slavery in politics; no fellowship in religion; no affiliation in society; no patronage to pro-slavery merchants; no guestship in a slave-waiting hotel; no fee to a pro-slavery lawyer; none to a proslavery physician; no audience to a pro-slavery parson; no subscription to a pro
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 1. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Narrative and legendary poems (search)
he pillory lame, Rejoicing in their wretchedness, and glorying in their shame. And what a fate awaits thee!-a sadly toiling slave, Dragging the slowly lengthening chain of bondage to the grave! Think of thy woman's nature, subdued in hopeless thrall, The easy prey of any, the scoff and scorn of all! “ Oh, ever as the Tempter spoke, and feeble Nature's fears Wrung drop by drop the scalding flow of unavailing tears, I wrestled down the evil thoughts, and strove in silent prayer, To feel, O Helper of the weak! that Thou indeed wert there! I thought of Paul and Silas, within Philippi's cell, And how from Peter's sleeping limbs the prison shackles fell, Till I seemed to hear the trailing of an angel's robe of white, And to feel a blessed presence invisible to sight. Bless the Lord for all his mercies!—for the peace and love I felt, Like dew of Hermon's holy hill, upon my spirit melt; When ‘Get behind me, Satan!’ was the language of my heart, And I felt the Evil Tempter with all his
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 2. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Poems Subjective and Reminiscent (search)
hoice of days To him who fills them all with praise! Keep while you need it, brothers mine, With honest zeal your Christmas sign, But judge not him who every morn Feels in his heart the Lord Christ born! “ 1882. At last. when on my day of life the night is falling, And, in the winds from unsunned spaces blown, I hear far voices out of darkness calling My feet to paths unknown, Thou who hast made my home of life so pleasant, Leave not its tenant when its walls decay; O Love Divine, O Helper ever present, Be Thou my strength and stay! Be near me when all else is from me drifting: Earth, sky, home's pictures, days of shade and shine, And kindly faces to my own uplifting The love which answers mine. I have but Thee, my Father! let Thy spirit Be with me then to comfort and uphold; No gate of pearl, no branch of palm I merit, Nor street of shining gold. Suffice it if—my good and ill unreckoned, And both forgiven through Thy abounding grace— I find myself by hands familiar becko<
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 3. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Anti-Slavery Poems (search)
e her flowers, And ripen like her corn. Oh, give to us, in times like these, The vision of her eyes; And make her fields and fruited trees Our golden prophecies! Oh, give to us her finer ear! Above this stormy din, We too would hear the bells of cheer Ring peace and freedom in. 1862. Hymn, sung at Christmas by the scholars of St. Helena's Island, S. C. oh, none in all the world before Were ever glad as we! We're free on Carolina's shore, We're all at home and free. Thou Friend and Helper of the poor, Who suffered for our sake, To open every prison door, And every yoke to break! Bend low Thy pitying face and mild, And help us sing and pray; The hand that blessed the little child, Upon our foreheads lay. We hear no more the driver's horn, No more the whip we fear, This holy day that saw Thee born Was never half so dear. The very oaks are greener clad, The waters brighter smile; Oh, never shone a day so glad On sweet St. Helen's Isle. We praise Thee in our songs to-day, To
The Daily Dispatch: November 29, 1860., [Electronic resource], The Secession Movement at the South. (search)
to come from such a quarter, and a very practical one indeed. But Mr. Weed's suggestions twelve months since would have been more efficacious perhaps. Then he and his confederates were for using all the capital they had in trade, including the "Helper book," in order to carry the North for Black Republicanism. They could then make no concessions to the spirit of patriotism — no offering to the good of the country.--They were engaged in saving their party then and ridiculed the "Union Savers,"s arrayed against their sectionalism. Having brought the country to the brink of dissolution, they now themselves are undertaking the task of Union saving. They profess to regret many things, and desire to undo others. Even Weed deprecates the Helper book now that he has used it successfully, and says it is contrary to his sentiments and feelings. How like mockery does all this look? The Herald aptly compares these acknowledgments to "death-bed confessions." These demonstrations from c
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