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I have seen purer liquors, better segars, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and prettier courtezans, here in San Francisco, than in any other place I have ever visited; and it is my unbiased opinion that California can and does furnish the best bad things that are obtainable in America.

Hinton R. Helper

Slavery destroys, or vitiates, or pollutes, whatever it touches. No interest of society escapes the influence of its clinging curse. It makes Southern religion a stench in the nostrils of Christendom; it makes Southern politics a libel upon all the principles of republicanism; it makes Southern literature a travesty upon the honorable profession of letters.

Hinton R. Helper

Slavery is the parent of ignorance, and ignorance begets a whole brood of follies and vices; and every one of these is inevitably hostile to literary culture.

Hinton R. Helper

Slavery tolerates no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no freedom of opinion.

Hinton R. Helper

Hinton R. Helper

Hinton R. Helper

Born: December 27, 1829

Died: March 8, 1909 (aged 79)

Bio: Hinton Rowan Helper was an American Southern critic of slavery during the 1850s. In 1857, he published a book which he dedicated to the "nonslaveholding whites" of the South.

Known for:

The Impending Crisis of the South (1857)
The land of gold (1855)
The crisis of the American South

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