The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-07-07

of middleand southern MISSISSIPPI, WheFe
I have lived for several years, there IS
not yirtuous young man of twenty years
Iof age. To send a lad to male academy
in Mississippi is moral murder. Now, |
have four children, three of them boys.
| / confess / shall never raise them In
slave State willingly
A Virginian, in one ofthe daily papers,
among several objections to anti-slayery
efforts, and hard threats at abolitionists.
utters the following condemnation of 3
system that finds SO many advocates in
his State:
81 have asked no man what he thought
about it (slayery). know that all who
are not unduly prejudiced must feel in
their hearts that the institution. as it now
stands, is morally wrong. Slavery, as
our laws allow US to use it, is crime -
Is that the state of society most desira
bic to be introduced into the home of our
adoption? Shall we choose Incidence,
Ignorance, vice and whisky, with their
accom- paniments, or shall we have enter
prise, intelligence, skill, morality, So
briefly and universal thrift! The hrst
we must have if we take negro slavery to
our bosom, while the second We may
have with free institutions
Not only is the state of society most
shiftless and thriftless in slayeholding
community, but it is most perilous. Who
can contemplate the existence of a deadly
foe in the midst of community, without
Ia constant sense of insecurity Espe=
cially when that foe is powerful in num-
bers, and continually exasperated by the
forcible Withholding of just rights, and
by the tortures OF. the drivers lash. a
community thus situated is powerless,
either in defensive or offensive opera
tions, against an enemy from whatever
quarter.
In the midst of the great swelling
words of our southern and pro-slayery
friends, and their threats of war upon
the North, and dissolution of the union,
let us look atthe elements of their strength
and see if indeed we have occasion to
pale with fear, or blacken with dismay at
the advance of their powerful armies.
A distinguished foreigner, after trav-
cling in the southern States, remarked
that the very aspect of the country bore
testimony that defenceless and exposed
as they are, it would be madness to haz-
ard civil war; and surely no people in
the world have more cause to shrink
from an appeal to arms We find at the
South no one element of military strength.
Slavery, as we have seen, checks the
progress of population, of the arts, of Ell
terprise, and of industry. But above
all, the laboring class, which in other
countries affords the materials of which
armies are composed, is regarded at the
South as most deadly foe and the
sight of thousand negroes with arms in
their hands, would send thrill of terror
through the stoutest hearts, and excite a
panic which no number of the veteran
troops of Europe could produce. Even
now, laws are i'll force to keep arms out
of the hands of apopulation which ought
to be reliance in danger, but which is
dreaded by day and night, in peace and
war.
The Secret Journal of Congress Vol.
l., p. 1867 contains the following re-
markable and instructive record -
"luarch 29th, 1779.-The committee
appointed to take into consideration the
circumstances of the southern States, and
the ways and means for their safety and
defence, report, That the State of South
Carolina as represented by the delegates
Of the said State, and by Mr.. Huger,
who has come hither at the request of the
Governor of said State, on purpose to
explain the particular circumstances
thereof, is unable to make any effectual
efforts with militia, by reason of the great
proportion of citizens necessary to re-
main at home, to prevent insurrection
among the negroes, and to prevent the
desertion of them to the enemy That
the state of the country, and the great
number of these people among them,
expose the inhabitants to great danger,
from the endeavors of the enemy to ex-
cite them to revolt or desert"
What say the Shareholders with regard
to this matter ?
i Governor Hayne, in his message of
1888, warned the South Carolina Legis-
lature, that ga state of military prepara-
| ton must always be with us sta:e of
perfect domestic security. A profound
peace, and consequent apathy, may ex
pose us to the danger of domestic ilIsur-
rection.''
Another South CaroliBian admon-
ishes his countrymen thus "Let it new
er be forgotten that our negroes are truly
the Jacobins of the country that they
are the anarchists, and the domestic
enemy, the common enemy of civilized
society, and the barbarians who would,
if they could, become the destroyers of
our race"
Again. HATRED to the whites, with
the exception, in some cases, of attach
ment to the person and family of the
master, is nearly universal among the
black population We have then foe,
cherished in our very bosoms-a foe will
ling to draw our life-blood whenever the
opportunity is offered; in the mean time
intent on doing us all the mischief in his
ipower.''
In a debate in the Kentucky Leglsla-
tire, in l841, Mr.. Harding, opposing
the repeal of the law prohibiting the i'm
portation of slaves from other States, and
looking forward to the time when the
blacks would greatly out-nunlber the
whites, exclaimed:
.sIn such state of things, suppose an
insurrection of the slaves to take place.
The master has become timid and fearful,
the slave bold and daring-the white men,
oyerpowered with sense of superior
numbers on the part of the slaves, cannot
be embodied together; every man must
guard his own hearth and fireside. No
| man would even dare for an hour to leave
his own habitstion; if he did, he would
expect on his return to find his wife and
children massacred. Butthe slaves, with
but little more than the shadow of opposi-
ton before them, armed with the cons
sciousness of superior force aud superior