How natural has it been to assume that the motive of those who have protested
against the extension of Slavery was an unnatural sympathy with the negro, in-
stead of what it always has really been-concern for the welfare of the White Man.
SEWARD.

Deep-rooted prejudices entertained by the whites; ten thousand recollections by
the blacks, of the injuries they have sustained; new provocations; the real dis-
tinctions which Nature has made, and many other circumstances, will divide us
into parties, and produce convulsions, which will probably never end but in the
extermination of the one or the other race.
JEFFERSON.

And thou, too, Ethiopia! against thee also will I unsheathe my sword.
ZEPHANIAH.

NEW YORK:

George W. Carleton & Co., Publishers.

LONDON: S. Low, SON & Co.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by

HINTON ROWAN HELPER,

In the clerk's office of the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of

North Carolina; and also in the clerk's office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.

TILDEN LIBRARY

1895

DEDICATION.

To

That most Enlightened and Progressive Portion of the People of the New World, who have the Far-reaching Foresight, and the Manly Patriotism, to Determine Irrevocably, by their Votes, in 1868-1872, Sooner or Later, that, after the Fourth of July, 1876, (or, at the very furthest, after the First of January, 1900,) No Slave nor Would-be Slave, No Negro nor Mulatto, No Chinaman nor unnative Indian, No Black nor Bi-colored Individual of whatever Name or Nationality, shall ever again find Domicile anywhere Within the Boundaries of the United States of America ;—

To

All those Preeminently Sagacious and Good Men who are Deeply Impressed with the Conviction, that even the Firmest Founded and the Noblest Vindicated of all Republics, whether Ancient or Modern, and the Best System of Government ever yet Devised beneath the Sun, can never Fulfill its Promised Mission of Unexampled Greatness and Grandeur, until After it shall have been Brought under the Exclusive Occupancy and Control of the Heaven-descended and Incomparably Superior White Races of Mankind,

This Volume is Most Respectfully Dedicated,

By their Friend and Fellow-citizen,

THE AUTHOR.