The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-10-07

sense OF insecurity. and constant apprehension
Of outbreaking insurrection. There never was
sense Of security is perfect; we go to our aum-
beers, with our slaves, as our watchers and guar
dams, to protect US and our property from vio-
lerce or spoliation. My serv ants lock me up al
in the morning and er uno disco omnes. At the
plantation OF my late motherin-aw, q lone widow
except when her married daughters and grand-chil
dren visited her-in the midst Of her sixty slaves
ber men servants, taking their turns by twos, were
Der nightly tentibes TO guard against the approach
inarauders and other evitd0ers. And such is the
custom on most plantations Andrew Pickens Cal
foun, ESQ eldest son Of the great Southerner (wh0
bas recently returned, as resident, to bis native
State, and now owns Fort Hill the family home
stead OF Ms illustrious father) informed me that,
10 The cotton growing region Of alabama he was one
OF Thirty white persons adults, suppose, he meant
in the midst oil five thousand slaves Who an imagine
higher degree vi security than is indicated BY such
speaking tacE Besides, in all the time that sla-
very bas existed in the Souhe States, the worst
oLd the only serious irsnrec ion which has ever oc
Cured. was that OF Nat Turner. in Virginia, in
1881 when but sixty white lives fell sacri-
fee TO The mad and easily crushed 6meute Why,
acct tents on railroads and STEAMBOATS,. steam Car
and seam-baler explosions, and collisions OF rail-
road cars on land ann Of ships other vessels the
water, destroy more lives at time, than are here
cbargeable TO insurrecti0nary account; and North
ern mobs are far more frequent and de-
snuctiys to life and property than slave
in South Carolina, my own native city and State,
there has been no serious well authenticated at
tempt at insure ction, since the commencement of
The Revolution, and for long time before that
evenr, except the seasonably detected AMI easily
frustrated one of 1922, which was of very Ii nited
extent. History records no previous one; although
tradition does dimly shad) wv forth one, in an early
period OF our colonial existence, when the African
slave was fresh from his barbarian home. Yet 80
obstinate and excessive ia fanatic creduty that
Miss Harriet MartiDeau, after passing six or eight
months in the bosom Of our families in city and
on plantations, goes home and writes book, in
which she chronicles the absurd fabrication that
the people OF Charleston 60 to bed every night.
fearing Ito give an Irish turn to her expre sson)
that they will wake in the morning and find their
threats cut from ear to ear!
/, there had been time for IL, would also have
enlarged on the military strength Of the South,
connected with and promoted 10y the institution of
slavery In free countries the peasantry, the tlars
Of the soil, are required TO fill up armies in time of
war and agriculture suffers accordingly: but in
slaveholding countries dlsturbs not the opera
tons Of the farm or the plantation, Except when
they are lavageo by the enemy, an evil to winch
free States are equally subject) for the peasantry
are slaves. and reemen alone constitute the mltar
arm of the country, for both defence and invasion.
Nor is there any danger from slaves in periods of
war, for two very sufficient first the free
men are then armed capa-pie and disciplined, and
fitted and able TO prevent or suppress revolt; and
secondly the attachment OF slaves, generally to their
masters is such that, as proved by Revolutionary
history, when armed, they, like the trained band
servants Of Abraham in the Bible do battle not for,
but against their masters enemies Instances were
common In the Revolut mary history of South Caro-
lima, OF masters arming their slaves, and doing so
efectually, to defend lite and property against
British assault and spoat0n and the faithful slave
often refused, under threatened and actual torture
to discover to The British the tories the hiding
places OF their masters.
What, then, have we to apprehend on this
Sc IRE? Nothing, literally nothing. We are content.
cd With MIR and fnqva ara cd xvith uc.
ard am one Of those who confidently believe that
it is not in the power Of the Serpent Of Aboliti-
onism, however Satanic his intent aud although he
ledge of good and evil difdse his poison or to do
any serious mischief in our Southern Eden.
RICHARD YEADoE.