Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1856-12-19
Slave Conspifacies.

hch' duu aiai iu III piTts vi NIssOuri, Ntu-
tucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi,
Louisiana, Texas, Florida, and Virgins,
in consequence of reports, widely spread,
about concerted plan of instruction
among the slaves. Doubtless, the reports
were greatly exaggerated, but they had
the effect to produce great commotion, fear
/ and dread, among the whites. Some eyi-
dence was thrown upon the plans and pur-
poses Of the slaves, from the discovery of
the arms and ammunition they had col
lccted in several localities Some twenty
or thirty negroes have been summarily ex
ccuted, and two or three white men, who
were supposed to be in guilty completely
with them have shared ike fate.
A negro insurrectiOn fully under way,
would present scenes Of carnage aud woe,
, horrible beyond who. Pc. tongue could
portray. Bot, we are surprised that these
masters, and those who defend the ''pecu.
liar Institution" do not see, in the events
which have just occurred, that they stand
on volcano, which may, at any moment,
hurst forth with destructive energy, and
sweep everything before it. Instead Of
agitating the question Of re-apeuins tie
slave trade, Instead of trying to force sla-
very into territory now free, We are anaz-
ed that they do not exercise their wits and
their wisdom in devising some plan for
their own security, aud for the gradu.l
amelioration aud removal Of the complica.
ted evils which press upon them. This Is
peculiarly and e.rciusire,y their province
aud business. We beg, however, to re-
mind them, that they can not abrogate or
contrayene those laws which are immu:a-
. BILE and eternal in the affairs of men. Ii
the God of nature and of Providence has
not ordained human slavery to be pezpet,
ual, they can not make it SO.
"Thc question recurs, how was this i'm
preston Of the emancipation of the slaves
so broadly diifused among the Southern
slave population as is evident from these
reported conspiracies ? Not BY the Ere
mont party in the South /; for no man was
allowed south of Mason and Dixon's line
to write, print or speak anything in favor
Of Fremont's election. Those negroes
could only have taken their cue from such
imprudeDt and boisterous fire, eating poll
teal niger drivers as Gov. Wise, Cheva-
lier Brooks, Kei,t and Slidell, and such.
Daring the campaign, they pratcd to South
ern audiences, with negroes oil around
them, of Fremont as an abohtionist-of
his designs to drive the shareholders out of
Kansas, and to turn all the slaves of the
South loose, to kill, burn aud destroy.
The negroes pricked up their ears aad lis
tened, aud they we're told further, that
there was every probability that Fremont
would be elected, aud that then the only
safety to the South would be to Withdraw
from the Union, aud arm for civil war.
Taking these hints aud putting them toge-
tber, over their cabin fires, we dare say,
took their white masters at their word, and
proceeded to arrange their plans accord.
ingly for counter-movement Of rebellion"
DR.. KANE.-It is with unfeigned sor-
row we learn that the health Of this enter.
prising, heroic explorer has not improved
by bis visit to England. Severe nigh.
sweais and a racking cough, with a general
debility of his system, rendered it uecces.
sary, in the judgment of bis medical advi-
sers, that he should pass the winter In the
West India Islands.
.. ~~~~~~,-~~>---S~
Great are the mysteries of Ocean Post.
age. 1t costs more now to send an ounce
of paper to Europe than it does barrel of
-four. A man may have a state.room
eat, drink, sleep and lounge all over the
slip, and yet qnict mailbag, that has
stood all the time in dark corner, is
charged seven times az much passage mo