The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-28 00:00:00

THE SLAVE TROUBLES IN TENN,EgSBE.

The Clarksville (Tennessee) JPffersonian publishes
the following resolutions, adopted :by the Com-
mittee of Safety which was appointed in that place
to investigate the causes of the recent negro
troubles, and to suggest a remedy :--
"The committee appointed by the citizens of Clarks.
vilie to investigate the irnth of the, threatened insurrec-
tion of the negroes in this vicinity, to. allay improper
exci einent, and to guard the community against danger,
deem it appropriate to the occasion that we should give
puolicity to the following resolutions, which have met
our unanimous approval, and we recommend them as
precautionary measures, which, if followed, will, in our
opinion, avert every danger and give perfect security to
the citizens:—

" Resolved—That we recommend to our city and
county authorities to suppress for the future all assem-
blages of negroes, under any pretext whatever' at frolics,
balls, benevolent socielies, or at public worships where
egro preachers officiate ; and that our ministers of the
Gospel be requested to suspend absolutely their habit of
reaching to the negroes on occasions separate from their
rdioary preach lug as ministers of the Gospel. Our
churches are large enough for our whole population,
white and black. We deem all such meetings for negro
preaching atone improper ; that they degenerate into
unlawful assemblies, and ale otherwise productive of
incalculable mischief.
"That the owners of negroes ought not to give orders
for their negroes to get buggies and carriages for plea.
sure on the Sabbath, or on any occasion whatever, and
that it is the sense of this committee that the owners of
livery stables in Clarksville ought not to hire horses and
butegies to negroes, even when their masters permit it,
for the reason that such indulgence to negroes promotes
insubordination among the slaves, and stimulates feel-
ings wholly inconsistent with their duty to their masters
and the subordinate position they should occupy in refer-
ence to white people. It is further the sense of this
committee that our merchants and traders ought to
abstain absolutely from trading with the negroes, unless
by the express permission of their masters ; and on no
account ought they to sell them firearms, ammunition,
or other weapons, with or without their owners' consent,
if any should be so indiscreet as to grant it.
"That, in the opinion of this committee, the present
evils that affect us are mainly to be attributed to the
late Presidential canvass, not meaning to cast more
blame on this than that political party ; we condemn
the public discussion of all questions touching negro
slavery, before crowds of people, in the hearing of vast
multitudes of negroes. We further think slaveholders
are guilty of gross folly when they permit their negroee
to go to oar becues and other public gatherings, where
public speakers of the one party or the other discuss
those delicate subjects of negro slavery, the true bearing
of which they do not comprehend, and where they im-
bibe crude and disjointed notions of freedom, which only
imperil the safety of the white and the certain destruc-
tion of the black race.