The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1857-01-08
From the New Orleans Delta, December is
THE SERVILE INSTRUCTIONS,


Some disturbances have occurred recently
in Louisiana, Tennessee, and Kentucky-insti
gated by fanatical Yankees-which have been
dignifed by the name of "servile Instructions
in many Of the New York papers. Our breth
rem of the Empire State ape exceedingly anx.
ious for renewal of the st. Domingo scenes
marked with red ink in history-and they can
scarcely conceal their exultation over every
real or imaginary difference between the South
ern slave and his master.
Whether the Northern agitators expect to real
ize fortunes by having the Threats of Southern
planters cut from ear to ear, or whether they are
influenced by the active Devil of Mischief alone,
we are not ready to say but assuredly their
emissaries are in our midst, and more active
measures than the mere publication of Theodore
Parker's or Mrs. Stoves literary rubbish are in
their hands-the ultimate object being a negro
instruction in the Southern States, and the
assertion of the principles of PuritaniSm by
the dagger or the bludgeon of the Black
No better evidence of the malevolence of our
Northern adversaries can be found, than their
recent exultation over the imaginary servile in.
surrections amongst our negro population. The
Tennessee eDeeute, especially, arrested their at
tention; the Opelousas rumor is also subject
of remark, and in Kentucky they find material
for remarkable defamation. Their conclu
sions from such facts or fctons are obviously
absurd3 the GntBauS, meanwhile, is unmistaka-
BILE. G Animosity, bitterness, hatred-these feel
ings Nare the Substr0tG of the Northern policy
which1ntends to accomplish such great things
the humiliation of the South as political pow
er, to commence.
The tactics of the North are remarkably dex
ferrous; one of her leading ideas is to represent
the South as unhappy and disturbed, and to
direct the attention of her starving whites to
the supposed suferings of the Southern negro
Starvation is advised to look upon Torture, and
its own pains become less. Prostitution is
pointed to supposed African criminality, and
the poor, painted, bedizened thing is consoled
Murder is congratulated in it's cell, because it
accomplished its work with cowardly poison
instead Of the daring New Orleans bowie knife
and the white owners Of white slaves convince
the latter that they are not only free, but have
a right to assert the freedom of their we'll fed
well clad, wel-housed African brethren. The
dupes believe the absurdity the pill is swallow.
ed, because it is scientifically gilt and yet
Mike Walsh, Representative in Congress from
New York, during the Nebraska discussion,
took from his pocket and exhibited to the
House of Representatives, the pawn. office ticket
for his own watch, for the last remnant of an
artisans property, and stated that such tickets
were the only resource and bower anchor of the
white slave He displsyed.- that working
mantle emblem of Northern disgrace, the
terrible evidence of Caucasian Slavery.
A strange article Northern newspapers
manufacture nothing about these slave troubles
they simply reprint extracts concerning them
from the Southern newspapers, giving even less
Importance to the reports than those papers do
themselves and then, those same Southern
newspapers turn upon them, denounce the re-
ports as Abolition les" the exaggerated fc-
tons OF Black Republicans, anxious to have the
threats of slaveowners cut What horrible
infatuation and perversenessl We deplore
these troubles they show of course the terrible
evil that besets and endangers slave society, but
they engender murderous passion they put at
hazard the best interests of the white race
they subject to violence, to new privations, to
increased rigors, the black race, and withal
cannot result in emancipation.
Why should Southern newspapers try to
make Southern People believe that Northern
People are fends, ready to exult in scenes of
blood and destruction? They talk of Garrison
as perfect Moloch-a man, who, while con-
tending daringly for the most radical doctrines
in regard to the rights of man, has constantly
written and acted against the policy of force,
against all physical violence, against the she'd
ding of human blood. If Southern editors are
bent on keeping up a mischievous, most dan
gerous excitement in the South, we can under.
stand the reason of their inaammatory misrepre-
sensations Of the masses of the Northern PEG.
pie. Otherwise, their conduct is utte-ly wild
and wanton.
AS the subscriber is in daily receipt of orders
for complete sets and sundry copies of docu-
ments and speeches issued by the Republican
Association of this city during the late cam
paign, he deems it proper to state his inability
to supply these orders, as previous to the cleo
ton all documents on hand were gratuitously
distributed in sections where thought most
needed.
AS most of our publications were stereotyped,
we propose, for the accommodation of our
friends wanting sets, to issue them shortly in a
bound rolume, with the addition of some other
matter, WHICH may be considered desirable for
future re- Zoe and preservation.
LEWIS CLEPHANE,
AAssocsationJ