Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1856-12-18
Who is in Fault d?
along.

A letter from Tennessee published in
Bridgeport paper, represents the negroes who
were engaged in the meditatcd rising against
the whites 10 have been influenced by the p1-
pectation that Fremont was about to be Pre-
sldent, aud that they would then receive their
freedom. If they believed all this, the con-
spiracy TO cut their masters throatS was uuHe.
ceSsary, and without motive
But it is very likely that the poor crca-
tures," rs the writer of the letter calls them,
were persuaded that the powerful party bS
which Colonel Fremont WAS supported at the
North had some project of cmancipatio II
view. Their masters certainly did their hest
to propagate this idea They denounced COL
Fremont as all aboIitioniSt-which means
partisan Of the political sect that demands the
immediate abroyation of slavery in all the
states. They denounced all who supported
him as abotioniSts. There was no public
meeting held in the southern states at whIchI
was not proclaimed, with a postlveneSS ana
violence which could not but make deep Im'
preston Oh the blacks, that the people OF the
North were plotting to deprive them OF tAeE
property, and that the very existence Of slave
ry in the southern states depended OIL the ei'c
ton of Buchanan. If our readers wish TO sec
IA recent sample of this sort of dcnunclaion'
they will 6nd it in Mr. Plerces last message
IN the passage where he charges the kefu0lt
can party with aiming at the emanclpatioa u
the negroes, under the pretence Of resisting luz
extension OF slavery. He borrowed the 'o"
aud most of the language from the decIaIle''
of the pro-slavery party at the South. :,
1t was impossible for any negro VINO cVOI
read-it was impossible fer any negro wno"'1
the sense of hearing in its ordinary peFitctO.~
not to become fully possessed OF two laT,,
FIRST that their masters were alarmed les' I'I
mont should be elected and secondly tIa, r:n
they were in the practice of attrbntnS 10 ..-
and to the party that supported him usS1 r5 :,
TO abolish slavery in the states. IL Wou,I
most extraordinary would be ineXplcaosE.nn,
if some of the negroes did not become t1o; too
convinced that such design was o" 'VS
What the most intelligent of them ga'N',r.
from what they read and heard, would Tt'.
municated, as a matter of course, 10 li' %
and the imagined possibility OF obtaining 'nr and
liberty would make the whole race nlear,' .Sa-
naturally suggest projects for shaking oI 'D''
bondage. in
If, therefore, such causes had any astD: E.rp
fomenting the conspiracy, the sIavfhoue'' f'Isa
only themselves to blame They maze .hor
charges, and the slaves believed tntnh and Z
flung a rocket toward the enemyS esIP ,bar
the sparks from it lighted mine unae' make
own feet. We cannot allow them u A.
their own falsehoods the ground OF ,rt' nc" ooo
tack upon the pc ople of the North in' u their
spiracy which has been just discovery of the CO.
own work partly the natural fruit Ol l;sb .b' aud
lamitous institution which they cherish Of Il
seek to extend, and partly the consequs"Ir most
IDEAS and impressions which they been Re, them bs
diligent in propagating Herea'Ir. G;.,rstiou.- r
learn at least to calumniate with uIS'''"
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