Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1856-10-03
IXCENDIARIES AT THE SOUTH.

! A few weeks ago We felt constrained TO warn the
people of the South against disguised abolitionsts lv
inr in our midst propaga;ins their incendiary doc.
trnes and all the while affecting 10 be very good
Southern men. The well-meant warning not re.
ceived in proper spirit i'll some quarters, and men
who were liable to be suspected of ialthessness to
the South and 10 The institution Of slavery sneered at
our G.rie an protested that there WAS 10 danger and
that our fcnrs were merely assumed for political ef
feet Indeed il has become very fashionable of late
with n certain cass in this and other slavehoGing
States TO call the jealous regard OF Democratic eli
tors for tie rights of the South humbug and stuff, aud
as calculated to irighen old women and weaker men.
It is easier to than to frame logical reply, and
we are not surprised therefore, when silly free soilers
resort to this method of answering Arguments
But we in.ist nevertheless, that the people Of the
SoutL have need to be their guard against sboi
ton ernissares, many of whom in our midst, and
some of whom own slaves merely as blind TO shield
them from suspicion.
As eyidencing the necessity of the caution we have
urged we cite a few examples Of announcements
contained in some of our exchanges which came to
hand yesterday morning.
A day or two ago We gave an account of the expul-
sion from Alabama and Mississippi Of several North
ern incendiares. OF two OF these persons, the
Sumter (Ala.i Democrat says:
..W. have Just learned from private source that
two men by the name OF Pierce Yankee schoo! teach
! ers in Clarke county, Miss, have been detected
in ATTEMPTING ncte the negroes in that section To
iusurrection, in the following bold aud fearless
! uer. One Of these gentlemen had identified himself
with the community III which he lived, by purchasing
n saw MILL under which he had room, c0nstruc-
ted as 10 enable him hold his councils unperceived.
II was discovered in neighborng swnmp that :h"y
had also fitted up rendezvous with seats, &c, sutt
cieut to accommodate three hundred persons, where,
according 10 the testimony of the negroes, they the
| negroes! had assemblies from ten miles square,"
The Eliza tAa.l Democrat states that five or more
of these peruicous scounircls recently expelled
from that place for crimes similar to those above de-
scribed.
Two pedIars were recently expelled from Cheraw,
South Carolina, on the charge of tampcrng with ne.
groes One of them On his arrival in New York-to
which place his passage was pad-published lachry-
moss card in the New York Herald, in which he sta
ted, with all the necessary prennaries of injustice,
oppression and ire, that he had been deprived of his
property.
4 few days ago. the citizens Of Livingston, Sum.
ter county, Ga, held meeting to consider the case
| of man named Samuel Sherwood, charged with be
| uc all abolition iucendary. lie was ordered to leave
the State within three days. 4 suspected ahotonist
has also been arrested at Columbus, Miss, and placed
in jail for trial.
| Now when in connection with these extracts, it is
| remembered that within two weeks Of the date of
our former article, precious scoundre was driven
from Lexington in this State who will pretend to say
that there was no need of our warning!
With these evidences OF pratical interference with
slavery, are told by sei.sbotiousts in this State
that there is no danger that slavery in the States will
be nolested and intimaons that this is possible
are ralei humJug and chsrlantry. The fact is We
cannot hope for better things while men are tolerated
in Southern community, who occupy the same posi-
ton of hostility to the South which is maintained by
every Black Republican at the North. Yet such
there are stalking, abroad in the community, wAc,
claim exemption from the punishment indicted OIL in
ceudares BECAUSE th0y happen to reside in Virginia
Such men are r.cra to be Lated and feared aud de-
ssvs svyerer punishment than the vest abolltionis