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Hinton Rowan Helper. The Impending Crisis of the South
The Impending Crisis of the South
Table of Contents
PREFACE
CHAPTER I
COMPARISON BETWEEN THE FREE AND THE SLAVE STATES
CHAPTER II
HOW SLAVERY CAN BE ABOLISHED
CHAPTER III
SOUTHERN TESTIMONY AGAINST SLAVERY
CHAPTER IV
NORTHERN TESTIMONY
CHAPTER V
TESTIMONY OF THE NATIONS
CHAPTER VI
TESTIMONY OF THE CHURCHES
CHAPTER VII
BIBLE TESTIMONY
CHAPTER VIII
FREE FIGURES AND SLAVE
CHAPTER IX
COMMERCIAL CITIES—SOUTHERN COMMERCE
CHAPTER X
FACTS AND ARGUMENTS BY THE WAYSIDE
CHAPTER XI
SOUTHERN LITERATURE
GENERAL INDEX
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Hinton Rowan Helper
How to Meet It
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In one way or another we are more or less subservient to the North every day of our lives. In infancy we are swaddled in Northern muslin; in childhood we are humored with Northern gewgaws; in youth we are instructed out of Northern books; at the age of maturity we sow our “wild oats” on Northern soil; in middle-life we exhaust our wealth, energies and talents in the dishonorable vocation of entailing our dependence on our children and on our children’s children, and, to the neglect of our own interests and the interests of those around us, in giving aid and succor to every department of Northern power; in the decline of life we remedy our eye-sight with Northern spectacles, and support our infirmities with Northern canes; in old age we are drugged with Northern physic; and, finally, when we die, our inanimate bodies, shrouded in Northern cambric, are stretched upon the bier, borne to the grave in a Northern carriage, entombed with a Northern spade, and memorized with a Northern slab!
But it can hardly be necessary to say more in illustration of this unmanly and unnational dependence, which is so glaring that it cannot fail to be apparent to even the most careless and superficial observer. All the world sees, or ought to see, that in a commercial, mechanical, manufactural, financial, and literary point of view, we are as helpless as babes; that, in comparison with the Free States, our agricultural resources have been greatly exaggerated, misunderstood and mismanaged; and that, instead of cultivating among ourselves a wise policy of mutual assistance and co-operation with respect to individuals, and of self-reliance with respect to the South at large, instead of giving countenance and encouragement to the industrial enterprises projected in our midst, and instead of building up, aggrandizing and beautifying our own States, cities and towns, we have been spending our substance at the North, and are daily augmenting and strengthening the very power which now has us so completely under its thumb.
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