HELPER, HINTON R.
\hˈɛlpə], \hˈɛlpə], \h_ˈɛ_l_p_ə]\
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Born in 1829, author of "The Impending Crisis of the South," a book which, in the anti-slavery struggles just before the war, made a profound impression, as presenting the views of the non-slaveholding whites of the South. He was U.S. Consul at Buenos Ayres from 1861 to 1867.
By John Franklin Jameson
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