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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) HELPER, HINTON ROWAN. Autograph Letter Signed to Edward M. Davis in Philadelphia. Large 8vo leaf, folded to form four pages, written on all four. Buenos Aires, March 4, 1865
A letter with exceptional content, beginning: "My Dear Sir; how do you feel after four years of war with the slaveholders? Four years do I say? For you longer perhaps. I'd say twenty or perhaps more, for if I mistake not, you have always, since your very first years of dissention practiced the vital antagonism to the fiendish fraternity of kidnappers and slave-holders. But I have more particular reference to the four years of actual hard, [ ? ] war which, in defense of our own integrity we have been constrained to wage with energy against the accursed slavery of the human race." Hinton Rowan Helper (1829-1909) was a writer and journalist from North Carolina who opposed slavery. He is famous, and perhaps one might say infamous in the South for his cautionary book "The Impending Crisis." Helper saw war with the slave-holders as inevitable unless the slave-holders gave in to change. The recipient of this letter was a wealthy anti-slavery lawyer from Philadelphia.
