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

- Hinton Rowan Helper

California can and does furnish the best bad things that are obtainable in America.

- Hinton Rowan Helper

I have seen purer liqors, better segars, finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and prettier women courtesans here in …

- Hinton Rowan Helper

Slavery destroys, or vitiates, or pollutes, whatever it touches. No interest of society escapes the influence of its clinging curse. It makes Souther…

- Hinton Rowan 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…

- Hinton Rowan Helper