The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1856-12-23

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or gath Of December has arrived. Then all
the army will help to deliver tho slaves
They have been struck by the sudden SWELL
ing Of the river, and attribute this circumstan-
CO to tho great assemblagc of men and ships
ut its mouth. Certain slaves are so greatly
imbubcd with this fable, that have seen
them smile while they arc being whipped, and
have heard them say that " Fremont and his
men hear the blows they receive
The mucs along tho shores of the Cumbcr-
land, for distance Of about thirty miles,
have suspended work. Machine shops, oc-
cupying from $50 to 200 negroes, have now
only five or six whites 60 direct operations
This the case in regard to the Cumber-
land Iron Works, of which spoke yester-
day. In these localities, also, the panic is
great Three whitc Free Solers have been
arrested in Dover in the act of exciting a re-
volt. They were betcn, and were allowed l5
hours to leave tho county and thirty to leave
the State. A black preacher was arrested
while delivering an Abolitionist sermon. He
forms one of the nine who were arrested yes
tcrday in Dover. OF these nine, five are not
yet tried. The four Others have been tried
bv n regular tribunal and were condemned to
to be hung on Thursday (to-morow); but as
on the announcement of this sentence band
of blacks was organized for q rescue, the four
criminals were to DO hung last evening"
The excitemen which will naturally follow a.
mong tho slaves ismuch dreaded The wo-
man and children to young to serve for de-
fence ore cmigrating towards more populous
districts.
OF the body Of 200 blacks that marched to
Dover, about 60 have been arrested. They
are those which saw whipped yesterday at
the Cumberland Iron Works Thirty Others
returned to their workshops and farms. and
the rest ran to the woods; but no attempt at
pilage or murder has yet been made In sa-
wing themselves, the blacks not only carried
away arms and munitions, but also everything
that they could, and in many places, partic-
ularly at Dover, the whites are short of pow
der hey would have paid its weight in gold
for that which we could not procure for them
All the blacks made prisoners are first ex-
amined separately by a jury, who decide
whether there ia ground or not to lay an ac-
cusation before Justice. This increased pre-
caution has already had good moral effect
among them
As i told you yesterday, the plan was to
butcher the whites upon insulated farms and
in the workshops, and then to march to each
chief town of the country. They would thus
have established free road along the Cum
berland from Nashville TO Ohio. By this
route all who took part in the revolt could
have fought retreat to Indiana aud Illinois.
No one could have disturbed them, for
they would have trayersed the least popula-
ted part of the country. Thus, though the
plat has been exposed and we have not to
dread any actual explosion, there still remains
an uneasiness about the future, and wo re-
fleet with terror upon the facility of executing
this plan if it had not been discovered.
The Kansas Game, aud the Secretary Of the
interior.
Many Of our leaders viii remember how
the Secretary of the Interior in his election
eering speech in this city somo weeks since
told Of his efforts and success in rescuing two
or three colored persons from unlawful i'm
prisonment in Arkansas, and how he told us
Of the Joy Of his heart at their release. This
was all very we'll; but how has the Secrota-
ry deported himself in this scheme in Kan
sas not to hold two or three " poor persons
in bondage, but TO spread slavery over that
entire territory--to enslave thousands, even
at the expense Of the lives of all who might
interfere with the scheme? Mr.. McClelland
had an agent in Kansas named Clark. This
Clark went at one time and drovoseveral free
state families from their cabins and burned the
cabins, leaving the settlers without shelter du-
ring tho night; one sick woman aud babe
perishing from tho cold and exposure before
morning. The fact was well known at Wash
ington. But where are the bowels of com
passion in our worthy Secretary Of the Interi-
or? He could use all the power Of the
Government TO rescue two or three colored
persons from unlawful bondage; but we find
no sympathy for the outraged and suffering
ohite persons in Kansas, who presumed to de-
sire that Kansas be free state The infa-
nous Agent was not removed. Again, it was
we'll understood that this Clark was tho mur-
derer Of the lamcnted Barbour; but such was
the power of the slave party over Mr.. Nc
Clelland, that Clark retained his Office with
out even q reprimend! But now at this late
day, when the free state men are strong O.
nough, and determined to defend themselves,
Clark is removed, and Virginian put in
his place. What comment upon the abso-
lutte subjection of the Government under
Pierce, to tho slave power, does this retaining
Of Clark up to this time, present Why was
justice deferredl Justice, did we say Ho
is barely removed. Justice demands that he
be tried for his crimes and hung as murder
er. But he is removed;' and in the eyes
of the administration all the wrong and crime
of his career is blotted out. He walks abroad
unmoested-his hands recking with the
blood Of Barbour and the woman and child
he murdered by the exposure he caused them.
How different has been his treatment from
that Of Gay, from Michigan, also Indian A.
gent of Mr.. McClellends choice.
Most readers Of Michigan papers viii re-
member the letters published in the Hllsdale
Gazette and copied in the Adrian WatcAtoc-
er, written by Major Gay, Agent among the
Shawnees Mr.. Gay was Democrat and
was anxious to 60 rs far rs possible with his
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