Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1856-12-25
The Terror i'm Nigger-dom.

The Terror in Nigger-dOm.
The Slave States generally are panic
stricken. Imagination exaggerates the
danger; men, women and children seek
places of safety, and the frightened slaves,
most of whom know not what it all means,
are calling upon the rocks and mountains
to hide them from the swift vengeance of
the white mans hand.
In TENNEssEE.-The city council of
Clafksville, Tenn, on Dec. 18th, instructed
the Recorder to notify the ironmasters and
other owners of slaves, that no slave will
be permitted to come into the city to re-
main more than two hours, unless accom-
panied by respectable white person, un-
der penalty of twenty lashes. Slaves
having wives and their masters passes are
exempted. Persons having slaves going to
and from Christmas festivities are not to
allow them to pass through Clarksville un-
less respectable white person will keep
them together, and not allow them to min
gle with the negroes at Clarksville.
Thirty negroes have been arrested at
Gallatin, Tenn, on suspicion of being con-
cerned in the conspiracy.
A dispatch from Washington to the New
York Tribune says:
The insurrectionary movement in Ten
nessee obtained more headway than is
known 10 the public important facts be-
ing suppressed in order to check the spread
of the contagion and prevent the true con-
dition of affairs from being understood
elsewhere. Upward of sixty slaves in the
ironworks, belonging to John Bell, We're
implicated, and niue hung-four by the
decision of court, and five by the mob.
Mr.. Bell was absent at the time, and is
now detained from Washington owing to
this cause. These slaves were treated with
care and humanity, under strict directions
from Mr.. Bell, who habitually visited the
works where they were employed, during
the recesses of Congress. The movement
was instigated under what seems an extra
ordinary delusion, but its design and the
plan have been grossly exaggerated by
those who inflicted the summary penalties,
for which some of them may yet suffer be-
fore another tribunal when excitement has
subsided.
In VIRe1NIA.-Cornelius Hughes, from
Connecticut, has been arrested at Alexan-
dria under the charge of inducing slaves to
run off.
In Alexandria, few nights since, forty
colored people, of whom six were women,
were engaged in supper, and a patrol of
the F. F. VS. broke in upon them and took
twenty-eight to Jail. They were all young
and had no leader Not weapon was
found upon them. The next day they
were fined 1884 each, and each received
fifteen lashes. One who had fit was ex-
cused from punishment. The Theological
Students formed a patrol, and all meetings,
even the religious Sunday gatherings are
prohibited. After the fines were paid and
the lashes well laid on, the magistrates be-
came satisfied that no harm was contem-
plated BY the negroes, as it was their usual
Saturday night frolic. But they did not
refund the money nor take back the
licking.
The Richmond Enquirer, Of Dec. 10th,
says:
In Montgomery county and in the vicin-
ity of Williamsburg, facts have been bought
to light which warrant the apprehension of
an outbreak, and justify the people in the
most summary measures of oppression. =
1t is remarkable circumstance that in
all these schemes of meditated insurrection,
that Christmas was selected as the day of
their accomplishment.
Is SOUTH CAROLINA Montgome-
ry Aduertiser says:
Under our telegraph head will be found
the startling intelligence of negro insur-
rection in South Carolina. To what ex-
tent the insurrectionary spirit of the black
population of the State extends, we are
not apprised. We trust it is confined to a
small extent of country, but our fears are
for the worst
Is TExAs.-The Galveston News, of
Dec. 4th, says:
The rumors of negro insurrection in
Harrison county have led to the appoint
ment of committee to investigate the
matter The committee report that they
find no evidence of any concert Of action,
or any definite ideas among the negroes of
what they would or could do, or of any real
intention of doing anything. There had
been a good deal of loose talk "about the
late election-the prospects of Fremont's
election, and the belief of some that thcs-
would be free if he was elected"
The committee find no evidence that
any white man was implicated with the
negroes, but they suggest the necessity for
each and every STAKEHOLDER keeping a strict
watch over his own negroes and premises,
and not allowing any negroes but his
own to visit his premises without special
permit. They also recommend the keep
ing up patrols in the several beats of the
county, and prohibiting negroes from pass
ing from one plantation to another, and
carrying arms, &C. We think these sug-
gestions may be equally applicable to many
other counties.
In LouIsIANA-TheN New Orleans Pic
ayune, of Dec. 9th, says:
A great laxity has been permitted toe
long in the enforcement of the laws against
the gathering of blacks, free negroes, and
others, in promiscuous crowds, without the
presence and authority of whites. These