New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-01-03
,,ins, exists at the soas, which may well account

things exists ct the South which may wei aoeoaa'
for sope dsquesude and disturbance 90 the Pa'.o'
tbeservIe popuIAtion 1t oonfesses thai the e1c'e-
,Da,ts Of the late presidential campaign were car
" ried too far, and that they had deeserous enec'
6. upon the subordnstiOn and quiet oil the Slaves
We NAV remark, in this connection, and a. bearing
unon this view of the case that the alleged plot oil
which the slaves are suspected, 30 far m It has
ANYWHERE been de ,eloped in any definite shape, sP-
pears to be merely plot to runaway. Such would
seem 70 have been the idea of the hands en-
ployed in the Cumberland irOa works. II there
was really any plot, which IS not quite 80 GER
tain. il would seem to have been plot to I'M
prove the Christmas Holidays to move OF IN
body for the Free States, and the insurrectlonar!
movements so called, said to have been discovered
elsewhere, seem TO have been petty much all OF sim
liar character. Now, that there exist all through
the Southern States chronic plots Of this klnd
among knots Of slaves more or less numerous,
would seem to be highly probable. Plots
Of this sort might, We suspect, be ut
aIy time discovered, N very distant and uucOn-
nec.ed localities, whenever and wherever the con-
rigid scrutiny which the recent alarm has caused to
be exercised. Such scrutiny would at any tlme
az We apprehend, develop great deal OF dsqul-
etude among the slaves, ard many projects OF e.
cane. not confined to individuals, bat embracing
companies more or less numerous, and even 90 e&
t4nsjye in come cases as to have some title to he
nagnifed into cOnspiracy Nor Is such state OF
things at ali surprising. Our Southern brethren
have been T several years past very busly em-
ployed in putting into the heads of their slaves
precisely such conspracies. No doubt the e1'
elements of the late Prudential campaign
may have gwen new mpulse to these ideas on
The part of the slaves but the process began much
earlier. COuld any better plan have been
invented to make the slaves uneasy, than perpetu-
ally to represeat to them, in the most exaggerated
terms the progress of Abolition IDEAS at the North
What more certain way to irstigate plots among
the slaves 10 secure their own freedom than 70 hold
u; before their eyes the Northern States as the seat
Of powerful, extensive aud implacabe conspiracy
10 the same end Who can doubt that the Fugl-
tive Slave law for instance and the painful aud not
very successful attempts to force It's execution upon
the UNIV Hing North have in their results, and in
the IDEAS they have been the means of conveying to
the minds of the slaves, already prompted more than
hundred escapes for every individual slave that will
ever to the end of tune, be recovered under its pro-
yisons' 1t ia not alone con the outskirts of pub
"lic meetings" about which, as The Bntttha com
plains, 81 slaves are permitted to hang by the over
"knd indulgence OF their masters, that " the
more intelligent among them catch to some extent
the spirit of the inhamatory harangues in which
imprudent politicians too frequently indulge The
idea so sedulOusly prOPagated in so many Southern
uewtpapers-We may say in all the Southern news
papers-and perpetually the subject of both bar
room and household discussion in many parts OF
the Southern States-the idea that il is necessary
for Southern shareholders to be constantly on their
guard against alleged plot Of the Northern States
TO emancpate their slaves, cannot fail to penetrate
into the minds Of the slaves themselves Just as fast
aDd Just as deep as it does into tie III nds OF
the masters nor, having done so, can 1t fal to pro-
duce its natural fruits, notification, rebellion and
separation in the one case notification, rebellion
snd separation in the other
The Buhltir, however, fails to comprehend the
full force Of lie suggestion; or, at ca to give
tApTtselOn W IL lud' J'uihu' tuc Sio"N uuu5Oi
to he institution If Slavery not so much in the agi
.ation into which so many Southern politicians are
busy in throwing the minds at once of the slaves
and the masters-the cd proverb holding good 10
this case, like master like man-as in certain sec
ton of the non-slavehOlding white population,
"vicious men who demOTalize the negroes, aud
" render them as deprayed and worthless as them
"selyes, by furnishing them liquor ia order to OBJ
"tain their money" " Thus brutalized, says The
Bulletin, "snd rendered insensible and reckless,
they naturally become iutractabe and MT for any
"eeeds. however ferccious." The Crescent com
plains, on the other hand in extrayagant terms, of
the extreme la1ity of discipline, and of the over
indulgence with which the slaves sre treated, call
ing fercey for DracOnan laws if necessary, against
both black and white to enfol the needed severity.
An the black codes of the Southern States de-
"mand remodepg, shouts The Crescent, "and In
" r,framing them there must be no sckly sentmen
''tality." The Pieayune thinks the great danger
rs from AN iucendiary philanthropy" operating
upon aud through the numerous free colored pop
ulstiOn Of the city, ard it calls loudly for revision
Of The laws, principally with view to heS 70.
strsinls upon that class of the population.
For our own part We doubt much whether any
thing is TO be gained by any Of these severe meth
ots.