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

THE SLAVE TBOUBLES IN TENNESSEE.

The Clarksville (Tennessee) Jdfersonian 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-
ville to investigate the ►ruth of tho threatened ineurrec-
tion of the negroes in this vicinity, to allay improper
excitement, and to guard the community against danger,
deem it appropriate to the occasion that we should give
publicity 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,
bails, benevolent societies, or at public worships where
egro preachers officiate ; and that our ministers of the
Gospel be requested to suspend absolutely their habit of
preaching to the negroes on occasions separate from their
ordinary preaching 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 alone improper ; that they degenerate into
unlawful assemblies, and ate 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, ur 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
budgies 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
ahstaiu absolutely from trading with the negroes, ❑nless
by the express permission of their masters ; and on ❑o
account ought they to sell them firearms, ammunition,
or other weapon., with or without their owners' consent,
if any should be so indiscreet as to grant it.
"That, i❑ the opinion of this committee, the present
evils that affect us are mainly to be attributed to the
late Preside..tial canvas=, not meaning to cast more
blame on this tha❑ that political party ; we condemn
the public discussion of all questions touching negro
slavery, before crowds of people, in the hearing of va-t
multitudes of negroes. We further think slaveholders
are guiby of gross folly when they permit their negroes
to g., t• barbecues and other public gatherings, where
pantie speakers of the one party or the other discuss
those delicate subjects of negro slavery, the tree 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.