New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-12-17
THE NEGRO INSTRUCTIONS.


silent UPON the recent slave inszrrectiOns Here and
there we find paragraph Ike ne following:
The Louisville Journal OF TIA 18th says:
eve were shown letter yesterday from Lafayette
Christian County which states that ak me- were
TO he hung there on the day the letter was wncea'
In Tse NaskriLe Gd-ssts of the 10Th, is ths:
a gentleman lust arrived from Galls.iu informs US
hs, fosr mse negroes are TO be hung st that place to-
day. on account Of their connectioa with the slave
revolt. eccd many are SIN IN Custody toeie'
v aitipg examination II is TO be hoped thai no Vo-
er &c i'll be done to any, unes their guilt Is Clearly
proven.
The vigilance COMMITTEES" at Springfield, Tenn,
nubl;,h a card in The NasAr1lle Banner, dated Nov.
10, in which they say;
"A yourg man by the name of Fets Ghomas Felt,
We believed. living In Logan County, Ny, near the
tie neighborhood Of DIR. Conn, came 70 SpiingnelS,
pr, yious, about midnight, himself and nve otner
patrols unexpected came upon collection oil ne
eroef-about one hundred in number-who were
6srbteueins shout aay esrcas'es and 'aa Soi HO
speech; that some Of the negroes fired upon the
patrol, who fed q short distance, and turned and
fred on abou, g dozen negroes, the remainder hsv'
inc dispersed The patrol shot one negro IN the arm
and CAPTURED ten. Drane mode his escape. On the
6tb ipst those captured negroes were sent to Russell
Vile. KY TO Jail This is about the substance OF the
stery We and others have publicly ana R,Nstely
spoken of it freely the authority OF Fets nave
o.n,v learned however from various reliable sources
o the ne ebbohood Of Dr. Conn., that this rhoie story
!, fabrication We therefore, at once publish tnis
statement in justice to all parties concerneo IN
order 10 dissbuse the public mind In regard to thus
| affair" r,-,., -
The Nashville Union of the llth has On edi'o''a On
| the subject from which we quote:
"Ouite panic has excited in -arts Of the State for
the last Two weeks, growing out of some discovered
plots for instruction among the slaves These dscov:
ree have been made principally at the iron works and
rolling mills in the counties of Montgomery and Stew
at wLe,e there very large bodies Of slave: Gun.
v,o,ed There bays been sam~ discoveries made Of
The same character In several counties in the Western
District and in the adjoining county Of sumner Va
ole purpor Of which that number Of the slaves at
there different points had agreed among themselves TO
rise in a body, about Christmas, overpower the
whites, and make their way to Fres State In
Nong, mery and Stewart several hundred negoes nave
been ar esfed end confined with the view OF nvesti.
eating the extent of their guilt Vigilance Committees,
cowpesed Of the most intelligent and prudent citizens,
orsahized by the respective communities, nave oeen
fies By their orders several have been hung, who
were proven to have been the add leaders of
the plot. Two, We learn, were hung by the populice
Several suspicious white men, unknown in the commit
niy and believed to have been tsnperipg with tho
| slaves were lynched and driven off Among the
numerous umors we have heard, unsuthenticated,
vas one that a minister, proven To have been In
pcsted, had been arrested; and another, that one
Of the party hung at Dover a. o negro, proved to
be a white man in disguise So much Of what We
have heard 10 unrelsblo that we have RETAINED from
publishing it, hoping TO be furnished with more
authentic statements. That there cduse fr ser us
alaym in these communities IL unqrestionable, as the
ospers Themselves in most instances, arrested their
slaves and suspended their iron operations at heavy
loss We do not suppose that the grsst body Of slaves
in pcaed in this matter ever did more than to give
tsc assent 70 the plans Of the few vicious negroes who
we've taking the lead; and the majority Of them per-
bsps, II they had joined In an outbreak, would have
done nothing more than made effort TO escape from
their mss'ers. The yicious-few we believe, in
Iumber-mght have gone to the greater extremes Of
murder and destruction.
"Let the people Of the South watch bad white men
who come among us az wolves in sleeps clothing
let them learn 10 Keep their negroes at home and attend
the political meetings themselves-let the moral train
inc Of servants come from their own lips respectfully
such Northern philanthropy the Southern Aid So
cieiy gotten up to furnish with New England ms
stona,ies and Intermediates In domestic Affairs
we say let the South do these thngs, and will have
no more negro Instructions. But If we fail In our
duty, We have but premontop Of the incalculsble
evil"
In The F7oridian and Journal Of the 9Th inst, /. q
communication from Quincy, Fla, TO the effect that;
a bloody conspiracy is now ripeniDg with GER
tain class VI the population Of this State against the
lives of our citizens and that the development OF
the plot 10 to occur sometime between the morning OF
the 18th inst and the LIST day Of January nsI ensuing
The editor addsl: We frankly confess that We P.ce
but little copfdence ia the statement yet such thing
il possible and suggests very forciby the propriey OF
oreanzipg an active police force u every neighoor-
hood 10 guard against the improbable contingency"