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
greater or more umounded mistake. Our
sense Of security Is perfect; we 60 to our Aum-
bers. with our slaves, as our watchers and guar
dams, TO protect us and our property from vio-
lence spoliation. My sery .nts lock me up at
night, keep the key OF my door, and unlock me
m the morning, and e1 uno disco 0mnes. At the
piantanon Oh my late motherin-aw, lone widow,
except when her married daughters and grand-chil.
oren visited her-in the midst Of her sixty slaves
her men servants, taking their turns by tw0s, were
her nightly sentipes 60 guard sg inst the approach
o inarauders and other evldCers. And such is the
custom. on most plantations Andrew Pickens Cal
foun ESQ. eldest son of the great Southerner (who
has recently returned, as resident, TO bis native
state, and now owns Fort Hill the family home
sesd of bis ilustriors iather) informed me that
IA The cotton growing region of alabama be was one
OF thirty white persons adults suppose, he meant)
IN the midst OF tive Thousand slaves Who can imagine
hlgber degree VI security than is indicated by such
speaking iacE Besides, in all the time that sla-
very bas existed in the Southern States the worst
and the only stri0us itsec ion which has ever &C.
CURED cured. was that OF Nat Turner. in Virginia, in
1881. when but sixty white lives fell = sacri-
hce TO The mad and easily crushed 6nerte. Why
acct tents on railroads and steamboats,. steam Car
ard steam-btser explosions, and collisions of rail
road cars on land Of Otbsr vessels on
water, destroy more lives at time than are here
cbargeable TO insurrectionary account, and North
ern mobs are far more frequent and de-
s1uctiys to life and property than slave
III South Carolina, my native city and State,
there has been no serious or wei authenticated at
ten pt at Dsunecton. since the commencement of
he Revolution. ana for long time before that
even', except The seasonably detected AMI easily
frustrated one of 1922, which was of very Ii nted
extent. History records no previous one; although
tradition does dimlv shadow ioith one in an early
period OF our colonial existence when the African
Slave was fresh from his barbarian home. Yet 80
obstinate and excessive il fanatic credulity that
MISS Harriet Martlneau after passing six or eight
months in the bosom of our families, in city and
on plantations, goes home and writes book in
wnich she chronicles the absurd fabrication that
the people OF Charleston 20 to bed every night
fearing ito give an Irish turn to her exprtssiou)
mat they VIII wake N the morning and find their
Threats cut from ear to ear!
Il there had been time for it, would also have
enlarged on the military strength of the South as
connected with and promoted by the institution Of
slavery In free countries the peasanty, the tll"rs
Of the SOIL are required TO fill up armies in time of
war, and agriculture suffers accordingly: but. in
sayeholdiDg countries. d,sturbs not the opera
tons OF the farm or the plantation, Except when
they are Iavageo by the enemy an evil to which
free States equally subject) foc the pc "A antry
are slaves and Ieemen constitute the military
arm Of the country, for both defence and INVASION.
Nor ls there any danger from slaves in periods of
WAT, Tor two very sufficient reasons first the free
men are then armed cap-ape aud disciplined. and
besthted and able 10 prevent suppress revolt and
secondly the attachment OF slaves geueraly to their
masters is such that os proved BY Revolutionary
history, when armed, they, like the trained md
servants OF Abraham, in the Bible, do battle not for,
but against their masters enemies. Instances were
common In the Revoluti mary history OF South Caro-
lima, of masters arming their slaves, and doing so
efectually, to defend lite and property against
British assault and spoaton: and the faithful slave
often refused, under threatened and actual torture
to discover to The British or the tories the hiding
places OF their masters
What, then, have we to apprehend on this
scRe? Nothing, literally nothing. We are content
ed with our slaves, and they cOntented with us;
ard am one Of those. who confidently believe that
it is not in the power of the Serpent o. Abolit-
onism however Satanic his intent, aud although he
may lie coed at the very foot of the tree of know
ledge OF good and evil 70 dffdse his poison, to do
any serious mischief in our Southern Eden.
RICRARD YEApON.