The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1856-10-23
INCENDIARIEs AT THE SOUTH.

propagating their inccndi;ry doctrines, ant
all the while affecting to be very goo,
Southern men. The well-mcant WARNING
was not received in proper spirit in som,
quarters, and men who were liable to Lt
suspected of faitlilessncss to the South an,
to the institution Of slavery, snccred at on,
article, and protested that there was no dan
ger, and that our fears were merely assumed
for political effect. Indeed, it has become
very fashionable Of late with 4 certain class
IN this and other saveholLng States, to
call the Jealous regard Of Democratic edi-
tors for the rights Of the South. humbue
and stuff, and calculated TO fri"l,ten old
women and weaker men. 1t is easier to
snecr than to frame Il logical reply, and We
are not surprised, therefore, when silly free
soilcrs resort to this method of answering
our arguments. But VIC insist, nevertheless,
that the people of the South have need to
be on their guard against abolition cmissa-
rles, many Of whom are in our midst, and
some of whom own slaves merely as IL
blind to shield them from suspicion.
AS cvidencing the necessity of the eau
ton We have urged, we cite a few examples
OF announcements contained in some OF our
exchanges which came to hand Yesterday
morning.
4 day or two ago we gave an account of
the expulsion from Alabama and Missis.
sipp of several Northern nccndiarics. OF
two more Of these persons, the Sumter
(Ala.) Democrat says:
awe have just learned from a ,riyatc
source, that two men by the name of Pierce.
Yankee school teachers, in Clarke county.
Miss, have been detected in attempting TO
incitc the negroes in that section to insur-
rection, in the following bold and fearless
manner: One o: these gentlemen had idcn-
t'ilc' himself with the community in which
he lived, 10y purchasing saw mill, under
wicl, he had a room, so constructed as to
enable him to hold his councils unpcrcciv-
ed. 1t was discovered i'll neiglboring
swamp that they had also fitted up Il rem
lezvous, with seats, DC, sufficient to ac-
commodate three hundred persons, where,
according to the testimony Of the negroes,
they (hc ncgrocs) had assemblies from ten
miles square"
The Eliza Ala.) Democrat states that five
or more of these pcrnicious scoundrels were
recently expelled from that place for crimes
similar to those above described.
Two pcddcrs were recently expelled from
Cheraw, Sou,l, Carolina, on tho Charge of
tampering with negroes. One of them, on
his arrival in New York-to which place
his passage was paid-puLlisl,cd lachry-
NOSE card in the New York Herald, in
which lie stated, with all the necessary pre-
lIm'narirs Of injustice, oppression and ire,
that he had been deprived of property.
a few days ago, the citizens of Living
ston, Sumter county, Ga., held meeting
to consider the case Of !. man named Sam
ueI Sherwood, charged with being an aboli.
ton inccntliary. lie was ordered to leave
the State within three days. A suspected
abolitionist has also been arrested at Co.
lumbus, Mississippi, and placed in Jail for
trial.
Now, when i'll connection with these cx-
tracts, it is remembered that within two
weeks of the date of our former article, a
precious scoundrel WAS driven from Lexinr-
ton i'll this State, who will pretend to say
that there was 10 need Of our warning?
With these evidences of practical inter
ference with slavery, we are told by semi
aboi't'onsts in this State that there is no
danger that slavery in the States will he
molestcd, and our intimations that this is
possible, are rated as humbug and charla-
tanry. The fact is, we cannot hope for bet
ter things while men are tolerated in a
Southern community, who occupy the same
position of hostility to tho South wl,icl, is
maintained by every Black Republican at
the North. Yet such there are stalking
abroad in the community, who claim ex-
cmption from the punishment inflicted on
'ncend'aries, because they happen to reside
i'll Virginia. Such men are more to he l,a-
ted and feared, and deserve sevcrer punish
ment, than tile vilest abolitionist of the
North. They are hypocritical pretenders,
wolves in Sleeps clothing, venomous vipers,
who should be crushed without pity.-Rith-
nsond Enquirer.
Franklin's Old Press.-When at the
Fair, tue other day, we entered an apart
ment in the old Cradle Of Liberty, where
we saw venerable gentlemen at work, re-
printing copies Of one of the earliest nows-
papers published in Boston, bearing the
date of 1873. The paper is in its old dress
Of type, paper. DC. We also beheld before
us the very press upon which Benjamin
Franklin had once labored, now throwing of
complete .fae simile Of the first newspape,
issued by him in Boston ono luodrod ord