Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-12-20
NEGRO INSTRUCTIONS.

journals have been burthened with rumors Ct in
surrections. the basis of which seems to have been
in the fears of the people. Hanging aid loginE
have failed to elicit positive proof that an inSur'
rection was thought Of. But will the Richmond En-
uuirer reiterate the assertion it made a few weeks
ago, THAT servile Instructions wore almost un'
known in the past, and need not be dreaded in the
future"
For the past month the journals from different
Southern States have been filled with numberless
alarms respecting contemplated risings of the he
gro population. In Tennessee, in Missouri, III
Virginia, and in Alabama So i'll mlnent has been
deemed the danger, that the must severe measures
have been adopted to prevent thor congregathG
or visiting after night, to suppress their customary
Attendance ut neighborhood preachings, and keep
n vIligint watch upon their III bvements, 10y an cih-
cient patr"liug system. This is ns%suredly II most
lnmcntable condition for the slave States, for moth
ing causes such terror upon the ulantations as the
bare su~piriun of these insurrectiuns.
la calling attention to the frequency and increase
ut the reported plots On the part Ui tie slave p"pu.
latiun within the past year, We design not 50 much
to speak of the measures whicd have been found
necessary for their repression, rs So punt to one
great cause which has more than all instigntrd
them. and that is the baneiul agitation Of this
slavery question by every demtSoSue in the slave
States, whu wishes to aquire trauclent nOterlety. --
III Missouri, especially, have we lett the effects of
this slavery agitation and slavery extension policy
upon the part of the notification faction, Win"
have sought to toat into power and "ihce 10y CON
tiuual exciting The passions of men. and provoking
discussion in regard to this theme: and we venture
to assert that IN consequence thereof more slaves
have been induced to escape from their masters,
more desperate resolutions have been put int" their
h'ads,and more genral insecurity entatled upon that
species Of property within the past year than du-
sing any five years preceding. Shareholders are
but now beginning to reap baneiul consequences
OF the audience which has benn granted of late to
those debtsed politicians who's only stock in trade
was slavery propagandism. The ierment excited
lin the minds of their masters soon extended itself
to the slaves--fnr all who live in slave-hoIding
communities well know how eagerly every scrap OF
parlur conversation, every excited faranGue on the
stump, y" luud-tonpd dispute in the streets l.
treasured up by the negro and made the burden of
kitchen comment during the hours Of the night. -
Ii no other evil had befallen the people of Mlssnu-
ri. and especially the slave holding population. this
alone would be sufficient ground to induce them 10
Danish these pestiferOus politicians from their re-
gard, and visit upon them the full weight Of their
cecsure and condemna:ion. No other mentrs pre-
SCENTS itself of Cn speedily giving peace to the com
munity, security to tho country dnmicil, and cleva-
tinn to the character of the State, rs the utter Ir-
pndiutipn of the Atch.nsous and Stringiellows,n and
all others of that kidney who have disgraced our
commonwealth with IMMUNITY in the past, and
would lead our peol lie into still more dangerous
STRATUS III tHc 1 nv ~, T.
NASHVILLE, Wednesday, Dec. 10.
The City Councils of this city have passed a law
directing the employment vi an additional pulicr
torrp, day and night torhiddiug negro schoul>
aud ne gro preaching forbidiing all ~assemblnge>
of negroes after sunduwn authorizing the arrest
of free negroes from other counties. and the arrest
of free resident negrocs if found in suspicious cir
cumstances. a great deal of uneasiness is felt in
the city AZ we'll as in the country.
From the C~arksvile (renn) Chronicle, Dec. 10.
The excitement in regard to the negroes has in
81 great measure subsidized. The Vigilance Com
mItlee has been laburiuusly engaged the greater
part of the week. examining those Implicated, aud
IN sumo eases have Indicted well deserved castiga-
tiun. upon rarties inn Heated.
The reuort of the execution Of the four negroes
~ Dover mentioned in oar last, was premature.
ii tusn since tha ,ime six have been hung ut Dr.
yer, and one at Dover Furnace.
From the Louisville journal.
THE MGR, NsuRWEcTloN.-We were shown a
letter yesterday from Laias cite, Christian c mnty.
" hch states that six negroes were 10 he hung
lLercf ot the day the letter was written. The
Nashville G ize'te, Of Wednesday. has tie follow.
ing:
A gentleman just arrived from Gnilatin in
us that four male negroes are To be hung ut that
place Ia day. on account of their connection with
The slave revolt. a good many are still in rust,-
Iy there, awaiting examination. 1t is to he hoped
thar no Violence will be done to any unless their
ruil, is clearly proven.
From the ClarSS'iie (lenn) Chronicle
The discovery of the iusurrectiunarv movement
of the slaves in this aud some adjoining ccunrios
has creil' ed ~ little excitement; and, in the con
rrnriety of reports incident to such a state of
,hings it is impossible, at this time to givea distinct
and reliable account of the extent of the pllu. or
the means ty which the bloody purpose was to
have been executed. Suffice it to say that evi,
deuce enough has been brought to light to prove
IhV existence of an extensive plan OF servile in
surrcctiun. The voluntary inf,rmntion OF slaves
in several localities, and about the same time. led
tn Investigation and the discovery of arm, and
ammunition at various points. though in small oun,.
ri,ies, the voluntary inf,rn,ers, 81 clearly disclosed
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