On Hinton Rowan Helper's anti-slavery book The Impending Crisis of the South; blamed for inciting political crisis in US. Against the leaders of the Republican party. "Thurlow Weed, the "Father of the Republican party," testified at the outbreak of the civil war, that this Helper Book had done more than any one agency to exasperate and drive off the South ; and, that the loss of North Carolina, if not other States, could be proved to be due wholly to the infernal doctrines of this book."