motives, there would have been no serious were sent broadcast over the land, to keep the conflict, for the North having the means to fur-fires of discord to a "welding heat." The nish five to one of the emigration, could have HELPER book, the most incendiary and exasvoted down the Southern influx, and the North perating of all, was issued, not in the name of could have afforded to rely on its strength and its real Northern author, but in the name of a wait for time to settle the matter. purchased stool pigeon, who hailed from a slave state, so as to give point. piquancy and sting to its pages. We select some specimens from this book, which was endorsed and recoinmended as a work calculated to have "great influence on the public mind," by seventy-eight members of Congress, belonging wholly to the Republican party. We quote as follows: But the contest originated, as we have seen in the progress of our compilation thus far, over forty years before Kansas was organized as a territory. The contest began in 1798, and raging with unremitting violence up to that time, could not be abandoned by the haters of the "league with hell, the covenant with death," in 1857-8. The abolition agitators have often "thanked God for the occasion which the Kansas imbroglio afforded to stimulate the cause." It was hoped by the secessionists, North and South, that Kansas would prove to be the rock on which the Union would split. Each party of factionists and disunionists bent every nerve to this end. Traitors in the South, under the guise of Democrats, and traitors in the North, as members of the Republican organization, furnished their "quota" of men and arms. Each party, anxious for the frayboth factions praying with impious fervency, that the "hour had come" that should rend asunder the ligaments of Union. Christian men (?) and pastors of Christian churches (?) bundled off their frenzied partizans with the bible in one hand and a Sharpe's rifle in the other, and bid them God speed in the holy crusade. O, that was a rich and exhilerating carnival, when the fires of civil discord were lighted by vandal torches-when the proud Romans went forth with a shout of brotherly hate (!) to prick the barbarian Persians with the javelin of holy revenge, that the empire might perish between them! The embittered feelings engendered by the Kansas imbroglio, was but the dawn of that abolition millenium which the agitators had prayed for for years. It gave them new life and hope, and they threw up their caps and shouted God curse the Republic. The fires of secession had been kindled, and it was determined that no shower of patriotism should quench the flames. New and inflamable materied must be added, and the breath of denunciation, with ten thousand bellows power, was employed to fan the flames of discord to an inextinguishable conflagration. Inflamatory speeches were made, denunciatory newspaper articles, and incendiary sermons and threats THE "IMPENDING CRISIS." "It is against slavery on the whole, and against slave-holders as a body that we wage an exterminating war.'—p. 129. "Do not reserve the strength of your arms until you have been rendered powerless to strike. "We contend, moreover, that slave-holders are more criminal than common murderers.'— p. 140. "But it is a fact, nevertheless, that all slave holders are under the shield of a perpetual license to murder.'-p. 144. "Against this army for the defence and propagation of slavery, we think it will be an easy matter--independent of the negroes,who in nine cases out of ten would be delighted at the opportunity to cut their master's throats, and without accepting a single recruit from either of the free States, England, France or Germany-to muster one at least three times as large, and far more respectable, for its extinction.-p. 147. "But we are wedded to one purpose, from which no earthly power can divorce us. We are determined to abolish slavery at all hazards. p. 149. "Now is the time for them to assert their right and liberties; never before was there such an appropriate period to strike for freedom in the South.'-p. 153. "Not to be an abolitionist is to be a wilful and diabolical instrument of the devil.'-p. 368. "No man can be a true paoriot without first becoming an abolitionist.'-p. 116. "Small pox is a nuisance; strychnine is a nuisance; mad dogs are a nuisance; slavery is a nuisance; and so are slave breeders; it is our business, nay it is our imperative duty to abate nuisances; we propose therefore, with the exception of strychnine, to exterminate this catalogue from beginning to end.'-p. 130. Foam, sirs, fret, foam' prepare your weapons, threaten, strike, shoot, stab, bring on civil war, dissolve the Union; nay, annihilate the solar system if you will-do all this, more, less, better, worse, anything-do what you will sirs, you neither foil nor intimidate us; our of heaven; we have determined to abolish slavpurpose is as firmly fixed as the eternal pillars ery, and so help us God, abolish it we will!— Take this to bed with you to-night.['sirs, and, think about it, and let us know how you feelto-morrow morning." Mr. Seward, the author, in this country, of the "irrepressible conflict" doctrine gave it the weight of his great influence as follows: "AUBURN, N. Y., June 28. 1857. "GENTLEMEN-I have received from you a copy of the recent publications, entitled the "Impending Crisis of the South," and have read it with deepest attention-it seems to me a work of great merit; rich, yet accurate in statistical information, and logical in analogies; and I do not doubt that it will exert a great influence on the public mind, in favor of truth and juctice. "I am gentlemen, very respectfully, THE KANSAS IMBROGLIO A PART OF THE SCHEME. Can any one doubt the truth and sincerity of Mr. PHILLIPS, after reading this, and knowing the fact that it was publicly endorsed by nearly every Republican member of Congress, that war and disunion was from that day to be the "weapon" to accomplish what Mr. P. says could not be consummated in peace? The Republican partizans were holding meetings in all parts of the country to organize for a civil war in Kansas. Many of their leaders were reticent and cautious about admissions that should give a clue to their real purposes, but there were others who made no secret of their intentions and objects. Among this class we select the following from the proceedings of a public meeting held in Buffalo, N. Y., wherein Gov. REEDER (then late of Kansas) and GARRIT SMITH acted as colporteurs of the Republican party in raising funds to carry on a civil war in Kansas: "Mr. SMITHI continued to speak of the aggressions of the South, and said he only hoped to hear of a collision at the South, and said he only hoped to hear of a collision at Topeka; that he only desired to hear of a collision with the Federal troops, and that northern men had fallen; and then he would hear of Northern states arraying themselves against the Federal Government. And would that be the end? No; Missouri would be the next battle field, and then slavery would be driven to the wall. Her strength is only apparent; it consists half in Northern cowards and doughfaces. It has been brave and rampant only because the North has fled before it. It will run when the North faces it. He believed the time had come to use physical force." "Gov. REEDER read to the convention the report from Kansas, of the dispersion of the Territorial Legislature by Colonel SUMNER, and remarked, at the close that he was sorry that the Legislature had not waited till driven out at the point of the bayonet." (Cheers.) "Mr. L. R. NOBLE asked how many troops there were belonging to the United States in Kansas? "Gov. REEDER said about 600. "Mr. NOBLE-And how many in the entire army of the United States? "Governor REEDER-I believe 15,000. Mr. NOBLE-I learn from a friend near me, that they can't send more than 10,000 men into Kansas; and so I say let us go on. "GERRIT SMITH desired to see the contributions continued. "A delegate said he would give 100 men who did not fear the devil, and who, like CROMWELL, would praise God and keep their powder dry. GERRIT SMITH thought funds were wanted first, and hoped to see the subscription go on. He urged in several speeches that the time had come when it was necessary to use physical force. "To this Governor REEDER replied that he was not in favor of waiting because they had not received wrongs enough, but thought it right to wait until they could strike an effective blow. If it remained with him to use the power of the Government, he would not have waited thus long, but the oppressors before this would have been converted into heaps of dead men on the fields of Missouri. But he was willing to wait until to-morrow, or two tomorrows. When on the trail of the enemy, against whom he had a deadly hate, he would follow him with cat-like tread, and would not strike until he could strike him surely dead. He was, therefore, willing to wait until they had the power he would thus have used. He did not wish to give the South notice of their Territory. The dragoons could go in as voters, intentions by marching armed men into the or to cultivate the soil, and strike when the right time arrived. When the time came to strike, he wanted the South to have the first notice of the blow in the blow itself." About this time MR. GIDDINGS is reported to have said : "I look forward to the day when I shall see a servile insurrection at the South. When the black man supplied with British bayonets, and commanded by British officers, shall wage a war of extermination against the whites-when the master shall see his dwelling in flames, and his hearth polluted, and though I may not mock at their calamity, and laugh when their fear cometh, yet I shall hail it as the dawn of a political millenium." HENRY WARD BEECHER, in presenting a Sharpe's rifle to one of his Kansas proteges, said: "It is a crime to shoot at a man and not hit him." CHAPTER XIV. THE JOHN BROWN RAID ENDORSED BY THE REPUBLICANS. Seward, Hale and Wilson Toasted by the Louisville "Jour nal" for not exposing the John Brown Raid...John Brown's operations a part of the Dissolution Scheme... Numerous Extracts to prove that Republicans endorsed the John Brown Raid...Republican Press, Clergy and Orators endorse it...From "La Crosse Republican"... Rev. De Los Love... Rev. E. D. Wheelock... Milwaukee Sentinel "..." Elkhorn Independent"..." Janesville Gazette"... Telegraphic Despatches, 1859... Winsted Her ald"...Speech of J. W. Phillips... Laconic Letter and Reply, between Elder Spooner and an Editor...Massachusetts Resolution... Meeting in Rockford, Ill....100 Guns Fired in Albany, N. Y....Theodore Parker's Formula... Indignation Meeting in Milwaukee: their Reso lutions, etc. ... Rev. Geo. W. Bassett, of Ill.... Telegram from New York... Horace Greeley on John Brown"Milwaukee Free Democrat "... Speech of Rev. Mr. Staples, Milwaukee... Emerson at Tremont Temple... Rev. M. P, Kinney..." Menasha Conservator "..." Milwaukee Atlas "..." New York Tribune"..." Wood County (Wis.) Reporter"...A Prophetic Article from the "New York Herald"... Brown's Character in Kansas, by the "Herald of Freedom "-General Conclusions, &c. THE JOHN BROWN RAID-A PART OF THE PROGRAMME. We have the statement of Col JAMISON, (Abolitionist), that Kansas was employed as a nursery for disunion, for he tells us (see extract from his speech on page -) that JOHN BROWN had been sent from Kansas to Harper's Ferry. The Northern sesessionist, MR. PHILLIPS tells us, finding it impossible to abolish slavery in peace, sought to inaugurate a war, as the only means to secure this object. Take their conduct in this, step by step, from beginning to the end-from first to last,-and it all looks like business. They went to work as though they intended to accomplish their purpose.They knew that to make hornets "fighting mad," they must be violently disturbed. The Kansas imbroglio had not sufficiently maddened Achilles to make a counter attack on Hector, and something else was necessary to provoke hostilities. Yes, this is the word under Mr. PHILLIP's and Colonel JAMISON's declarations, none other will answer. CHARLES SUMNER, in a speech delivered before the Young Men's Republican Union of New York, Nov. 27, 1861, says: abundant evidence from the treasonable mutterings of those who rang bells on the day he expiated his crimes, and canonized him as a martyr, whose "soul is marching on." That leading and influential Abolitionists were made acquainted with his designs at Harper's Ferry before the shameful emeute took place, is abundantly in proof. FORBES, a compatriot of JOHN BROWN, and who from some spleen of disappointment "blowed" on his bloody preceptor, was a witness before the Senatorial Committee that investigated the Harper's Ferry affair. This FORBES testified that he had forewarned Senator WILSON, of Massachusetts, and others of RROWN'S nefarious purposes, and still WILSON kept the matter from the public-[ See Report of Senate Investigating Committee. THE LOUISVILLE JOURNAL'S EXPOSITION. The following article from the Louisville Journal, at the time of the Congressional exposure, shows that not only Messrs. WILSON, HALE, SEWARD and other leading Republicans foreknew the purposes of BROWN, but that they kept the knowledge from the public, for reasons which all may readily divine. Many of the Journal's suggestions have since been reduced to history: "We are now prepared to comprehend the general character and extent of the disclothe interview before mentioned sures which FORBES made to Mr. SEWARD in FORBES, it will be observed, had two separate and distinct grounds of complaint against the 'humanitarians,' as he somewhat loosely terms the Abolitionists, seeing that he is a man of culture and intelligence:-namely, first, the necessities of his family, consequent, as he alleged on the failure of the 'humanitarians' to redeem their engagements to him, [FORBES, be it remembered, was one of the JOHN BROWN guard, and 'blowed' on that band of assassins he had been associated with, because they neglected sundry money obligations] and secondly, the rejection of his plan by the perfidious humanitarians,' and their adoption of JOHN BROWN's project,' including 'the cotton speculation. These are grievances for the redress of which FORBES desired to enlist the favor and influence of SEWARD and HALE. These are the crooked things which he wanted them to 'put straight. The scope and force of the language in which he describes his respective interviews with them is now not only obvious, but unmistakable. 'Having made several ineffectual attempts,' he says, 'to get a quiet conversation with Senator JOEN P. HALE, of New Hampshire, I met him accidentally on Sunday morning. I could not then enter into the details of JOHN BROWN's project, therefore I confined myself to explaining the urgen cy of sending my family relief. He could touch upon only a part of his grievances. Not so in his more deliberate interview with Mr. SEWARD. In that he touched fully upon the entire burden of his complaint. I went he says 'into the whole matter, in all its bearings.' What now is left to inference or doubt? Assuming the genuineness of these developments, which we believe is not impeached, even by those most nearly concerned, it is an offense to reason, an insult to common sense, a gross violence to the constitution of the human mind, to ask one to believe that Mr. SEWARD was not thoronghly cognizant of the bloody and demoniacal scheme which old JOHN BROWN and his fellow conspirators were meditating. He did know it all. The conclusion is inevitable!" REPUBLICAN ENDORSEMENT OF THE JOHN As accumulative proof that the Republican party generally, if they did not plan or connive at the JOHN BROWN raid, for the purprse of bringing on a civil war-if they were not accessories before the fact, they were certainly and clearly after-we present the following testimony. Our witnesses are principally from Wisconsin, as the most convenient at hand, but their evidence is similar to the general mass of Republicans throughout the North. * tragedy has been performed. The great State of Virginia has played the hangman's part, and is crowned with its bloody honors. A telegraphic message was received at Janesville yesterday afternoon, stating that BROWN was hung at Charleston, at a quarter past 11, A. M. For an hour previous to the arrival of the intelligence at this place, the bell was tolled sadly in anticipation of the event! No mercy was expected for the victim of southern vengeance. But the end is not yet. Troops cannot check the flow of sympathy that surges over the land. A wall of bayonets may guard the hideous bastile of cruelty and wrong, but cannot obstruct the march of the free legions that will spring forth from their slumber, and make the earth tremble beneath their tread! "Now, may God help the right! and give us tongues of fire, and hands that shall never weary, to wage an eternal crusade against the diabolical sin of slavery. "Peaceful be the sleep of the murdered BROWN, and glorious his awakening." The above was draped in mourning to show the deep sorrow of the editor for the death of the diabolical murderer. "If the decree of the court is fulfilled, Virginia will commit a crime in the murder of John Brown to-day, which will result in another step towards bringing to the light the dark blot upon the American Republic."-La Crosse (Wis.) Republican, Dec. 2, 1859. In 1859, the Rev. W. DE Loss LOVE, an or"One such man makes total depravity imthodox Abolitionist of Milwaukee, preached a possible, and proves that American greatness thanksgiving sermon in the Spring street Con- died not with Washington! The gallows from gregational Church, "on the death of JoHN which he ascends into Heaven, will be in our BROWN, in which occurs these sentences: politics, what the cross is in our religion-the sign and symbol of supreme self-devotedness, "In Kansas was sown the seed of the out--and from his sacrificial blood, the temporal break at Harper's Ferry! * If, indeed, salvation of four millions of our people shall you had power to revolutionize a nation, or all yet spring! On the second day of December nations, and extinguish slavery at a blow, and he is to be strangled in a Southern prison, for plant society afterwards on a peaceable and obeying the Sermon on the Mount. But, to be sure foundation. doubtless you, as a people, hanged in Virginia, is like being crucified in should do it! * JOHN BROWN may die Jerusalem-it is the last tribute which she pays on a gallows, but his name will be embalmed to Virtue !"-Extract from Sermon of Rev. E. in millions of hearts. * D. Wheelock, of Dover, N. H., on the execution of John Brown. * "The good he has done Will live after him." "THE HANGMAN'S DAY.-To-morrow, the 2d day of December, 1859, is to become memorable in history for the martyrdom of John Brown! The State of Virginia, represented by Gov. WISE, and the United States of America, 'the home of the free and the land of the brave,' represented by President BUCHANAN, are to see the effectual hanging of 'Ossawatamie.' Some twenty-five hundred State and Federal troops will assist in the ceremony. No one is to come within earshot of the dying martyr. No 'Northerner' will be permitted to record his parting words. But, in spite of all precautions, they will be heard, read and remembered by millions of FREEMEN, whose hatred of oppression, injustice and tyranny, in every form, will be intensified by the events "JOHN BROWN DEAD.-The first act in the of this black Friday. The bell that tolls for "The world will attribute the blood of JOHN BROWN, not to justice, but to those who shed the blood of his children. The blood of both father and sons will cry out against them from the ground." "But thanks to God, several thousand are yet left in this Israel that have not bowed their knees to Baal nor prostituted their lips to kiss the rod of slavery. From these let your hopes arise, that our land will yet be redeemed from her insolvency," &c. The Fort Atchison (Wis.) Standard, in its first issue after the execution of BROWN, thus blended its grief with its treason: the departing spirit of JOHN BROWN, will ring the knell of American Slavery!"-Milwaukee (Wis.) Sentinel, Dec. 1st 1859. "The moral effect of the hanging of BROWN will be to bring the hideousness of slavery home to thousands who were indifferent before. A thousand abolitionists will spring up for every one that is hung, and the irrepressible conflict' will go on until the institution of slavery is rooted out of the Union. The Union may be dissolved, but slavery must die! and if it can only die or be restricted to its present limits, through a dissolution of the Union, then in the name of the framers of the Union, who made it to secure the blessings of liberty, Let the Union be dissolved!!"-Elkhorn (Wis.) Independent, 1859. "Even if BROWN is guilty of all that is charged against him, his bravery, magnanimity, and fortitude wins the respect of the generous, everywhere."—Janesville (Wis.) Gazette, 1859. * * * worthy to lick or feel the foot of old JOHN "We have almost brought the American people to that decision, which says 'Government or no Government-law or no law, but slavery come down! Whether he broke law or violated Government, God bless John Brown!! So says the American heart in the Northern states. The American head will soon follow! The American hand will soon begin its work! in obedience to that heart and head, and we shall see slavery, the victim of its agitation-the victim of pure politics and a Christian church." before the Anti-Slavery Society of Mass, 1859. The Wisconsin Chief, a paper devoted temperance, took occasion to rebuke the mad spirit of fanaticism that was rushing the country to ruin on JOHN BROWN breakers, whereupon Elder SPOONER, one of the subscribers of that paper wrote the following note: A telegraphic dispatch, dated Manchester, -Extract from a speech of John W. Phillips N. H., Dec. 2, 1859, said: "An attempt was made to toll the City Hall bell to-day, in commemoration of JOHN BROWN. The bell was only struck a few times, when Mayor HARRINGTON appeared in the belfry, and ordered BROWN's sympathisers to desist. One of them refused, when the Mayor dropped him down through the scuttle, as the most convenient mode of enforcing his exit." Another telegraphic dispatch read: "Cleveland, Dec. 2.-A meeting was held here to-night, commemoratory of the execution of BROWN. Over 1,500 people were present. Able addresses were made by D. R. TILDEN, R. S. SPAULDING, C. H. LANGSTON, A. G. RIDDLE, Rev. J. C. WHITE, and others. Resolutions were adopted. The hall was draped in mourning" There were a few Republican presses in various localities, fearing no doubt the bad political effect of mourning the loss of RROWN, chose rather to fish up excuses that he was insane, &c., and they pretended not to sympathize with his movements and murderous conduct, but in all their editorials, they would somehow or other contrive to weave in a word of excuse and palliation. To this class of Republican papers the Winsted (Conn.) Herald a rabid Republican sheet, thus discoursed: "And here we may as well say, we have no admiration for that class of Republican newspapers which are so eager to disclaim and disown all fellowship and sympathy for old JOHN BROWN. Did they stop here, we could be patient with them, but when they go further, and pelt him with titles of madman, crazy, maddied and insane, we say out upon them, for hypocrites and traitors-little villains,' un To which the editor of the Chief replied: "JOHN BROWN had heroism to redeem his folly. Elder SPOONER is not so fortunate. He is fortunate, however, in living in a land where folly is not a capital offense." A JOHN BROWN meeting was held at Natick, Mass., which was attended by U. S. Senator WILSON, at which the following resolution was passed: "Whereas, Resistance to tyrants is obdience to God, Resolved, That it is the right and duty of slaves to resist their masters, and the right and duty of the people of the North to INCITE THEM TO RESISTANCE, and to aid them in it!" A JOHN BROWN meeting was held in Rockford, Ill., Dec. 2, 1859, attended by such leading men as Ex-Senator TALCOTT, who presided, and Dr. LYMAN, Mr. HULIN, Mr. Loop, Judge CHURCH, Mr. BLINN, Rev. Mr. CANAUT, and others, who made speeches. The follow |