The daily union., 1856-12-17
SLAVE NsURREcrIoss- RUMoRs.


SLAVE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. RUMoRs
The greatly exaggerated Of slave nsurrectons
in few southern localities continue furnish topics Of
newspaper discussion The latest of these repre-
aeus the hanging of number Of negroes in county in
Tennessee which has existence Large sections
ported great alarm which there are not
Of characterization The county courts are said have
been called together when they their usual time and
pursuance Of law transact the ordinary county BUSH
ness The Nashville (Tennessee Unon of the Ilth inst
furnishes the most reliable view Of the whole
follows:
'sNEGRo panic has existed in
parts OF the STATE for the last two weeks growing out OF
discovered plots among the
These discoveries have been made principally the iron works
and rolling mills in the counties of Montgomery and Stew
where there very large bodies of slaves employed
There have been discoveries made of the charae
in several counties In the district and adj
joining county Of Sumner Various and coniang reports
have reached us, the simple purport Of which that
Der OF the slaves at these different points had agreed among
themselves to rise in body about Christmas, oyepower
the whites, and make their way free State In Mont
gomery and Stewart several hundred negroes have been
rested confined with of investigating the
of their guilt Vigilance committees composed of the most
intelligent and prudent citizens organized by the respective
communities have heer engaged in taking proof and trying
the accused parties BY their order several have been hung
the plot Two learn hung by the populace Sew
era suspicious white men, unknown to the community and
believed have been tampering with the slaves, were
ynched and driven of. Among the numerous rumors we
have heard unauhsntcated that minister proven
to have been implicated had been arrested and another
party hung Dover negro proved to be
white Disguise So much of what have heard Is
unreliable that reained from publishing it, hoping
to be furnished with authentic statements.
That there for serious alarm in these commu
mites unquesonable the themselves in most
instances arrested their slaves and suspended their iron
raon heavy loss. We do not suppose that the great
body implicated in this matter did more
than to give the plans of the few vicious
groes who taking the lead and the majority Of them,
perhaps if they joined in outbreak would have done
nothing than made effort to escape from their
ters. The vicousfew, believe, in number-might
gone the greater extremes OF murder and desrue
ton.
The alarm produced will the purpose Of putting
every community guard and preserving rigid discipline
during the approaching holidays The great danger from
pancs of this the extremes in summary punish
they likely produce endangerng the lives Of the
innocent the guilty The best Of communities are like
to osereap the bounds of prudence at such times We
trust il mar not be so in this instance
"The slave communities the South not only the
happiet but the contented serf population in the
world and yet we surprised the restessness
and nsuborduaon that is being manifested among them.
Il is the legitimate consequence Of certain political and
social causes to which have had frequent occasion to
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