Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-01-03
MORE OF THE SLAVE INSTRUCTIONS.

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MORE OF THE SLAVE INSTRUCTIONS.
We have carefully looked over all the accounts
that have come to our knowledge of alleged Slave
Instructions, and in none of them do we find un-
doubted evidence that any such as the alleged
plots existed. There may have been special cause
for apprehension, The Shareholders 1.-Two in con-
tinupl terror. Their guilt makes them towards.
They know that revolutionary plots are the in
evitable fruits of Slavery. They know the provo.
cation for outbreak which they are continually
affording; but how or where or when it will come,
no mortal man can tell. Their lives are therefore
crowded with apprehended rapine and massacres,
of which they are themselves the victims and
everything unusual excites their distrust, awakens
their fears and stimulates them to acts of cruelty
and blood, as they imagine, in their own self
defence. We well remember q scene that occurred
about the time of the Nat Turner insur-eciion.
The whole South was in a state of alarm and
terrible apprehension. In the neighborhood where
we resided at the time, q cotton planting district
of Alabama, the cry Of terror came that the slaves
we're in Instruction. Instantly tho strong
men seized their arms and FASTENED to meet and
avert the danger, while women and children sought
points of safe retreat. The watchful terror of
that night to the inhabitants cannot well be for.
gotten. Nor did that terror abate, until it was
well ascertained that the whole alarm had been
caused by the boisterous shouts of some boys at
play, who accompanied their froliek with the
amusement of throwing q board fatwise on the
sand. The eports thus produced had been mis-
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and their Imagination had multi Piled the reports
and attributed them to q great company of Slaves
in arms against their masters. Of course crest
fallen, the heroes returned next morning to their
homes to meet and comfort their alarmed families.
Thus bloodlessly ended one of the Southern in.
surrections.
But not 80 ordinarily. However unfounded the
ala rm, or absurd the fears Of the Shareholders,
they commonly terminate them by sacrificing come
of the slaves to thei- cruel fears, after extorting
false testimony or false confessions by torture
Such is the course recently pursued as the account.
we have published testify. To them we add thu
following from the Kentucky Necs. What a RECORD
9 of cowurdiy, blood thirstiness.
. THE SLAVE INSTRUCTIONS.
' We learn from the Russelville Herald o
Wednesday last, (by 'elegraph) that great excite
. ment exists in the neighborhood of Volney ant
q Gordensyllle. a negro, belonging to one Of til,
o iron works of Tennessee. who knew somethin,
n about their plan Of liberty, died by the torture o
the lash rather than tell of his brethren who hat
conversed with him on the subject of their free
dom. lie received $50 lashes at the hands o
white savages, (too lazy to do their own work
before he expired. How the people of Americ;
. can stand by and see such atrocity committed il
this p~rofessed land of liberty. and that, TOO, agains
a peoI le whose only crime is that of seeking liber
ty, is more than we can understand. Even Ken
tucky--how can the liDerty-loving people of thi
State stand it? Will the real producers and work
ing men of Kentucky suffer these man fortunes t
go on unrebuked until they themselves fall n pre-,
Is to these barbarians, and suffer suajugation by tn
lash, and be bou hit and sold like the negro whon
they now shoot, hang or whip to death for III
= crime OF being known to possess an Independent
ID spiiit? II the white working men suffer tn
black working men to be thus treated, they mus
soon expect to share the Same fate. The principl
is the same. The white tyrant that sanctions
law to enslave black men for the sake of gal
il would sanction q law to enslave the whites also fc
IN the same end, and then cut and slash, shoot, han
or whip to death all who dare to talk about fire.,
~ dom or selEgovernment. The working classes
IS the Southern States are too thoughtless of thei
IT. own doom. Man has enslaved his fellow-man til
or world over, and in all ages, without regard to colo
,o when he got the power BY law to do so, and wi
40 IL mere OH tnlS part OF inc PlODe, ana In III
"A present age, if he gets the power.
q A Caeiz, Trigg County, KY, yesterday" say
as the Herald of Wednesday last, "a free negro VIZ
hung. after being tried by the Vigilance Con
mittee." and that "a number more are in Jail, son
MS of whom will be hung"
ed A white man was hung not long before this f
~. denouncing this inhumanity to man, and anoth,
~ whipped because his heart was moved with syr
% patty to witness the horrid abuse of the negr
CT guilty of no crime but that of a love of liberty.
OF This, Fellow-Freemen, is n most horriG state
nd things to exist in n free country. The black m;
r. is robbed of his labor by laro, and the white mi
p of his by dread; and not a press in the who
hu South dare proclaim the fact (save The Netopc
NeioS lest some tyrant would say stop my paper
I'm Both black and white, that labor for n living, q
- viewed rs animals Of like caliber and low grow
ing nature, by the wealthy man otDneT, except tn
oil the cringing white man, who reduced his oN
err wages and that of his ~neighbor by fondling arou
ted the slave master, is least respec ed. And such
these are used to set on chase after RUNAWAY
-, groes, to bring them back to work for nothir
isk that white men may also be compelled to beg fol
ted a job, and then, like the negro. get only enough
her feed and clOthe them for it. Oh, sweet institute
of Slavery! Oh, sweet b~arbarity Sweet Srut
ity and murder! Sweet wealth and povert
- Sweet learning and sweet ignorance! Oh, sw'
tn, trihlng humanity!
,ch You that dare speak out in Kentucky, let
'pi. hear your voice! Speak over your own sign itu
zen like fieemen. or ask for yourselves q rope for
re- gallows! The time has come when we shot
ne. know a skulking Tory from a patriot of liberi
land to know whether we must live by acting
md tyrant, or die for initiating a Washinton.
ioi A man named Hancock, in Uuion county, !
!. o kansas, has been shot by the cititizens for attem
lu' ing to incite slaves there to Instruction. Anotl
me one, named Martin, was hung in FL Dorado
III the same cause.
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on THE RESURRECTION ExcITEMENT.-A gentlem
NJ. direct from Tennessee informed the editor of
pre- Evansville Journal, on the 9th inst, that in
sat whole region from Memphis, through Clarksvi
the and Dover on the Cumberland river, the great
alarm existed in regard to the movements of
ZEN negroes. The jails in all the counties W,
not crowded with the arrested blacks. The cour
IA, courts assembled in each county, and rigilar