The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1857-01-08
servile lnsurrections---Their Cause.

ScEVHe 1hSurrectlOnS--.In nelr OOuSes
The st. Louis Democrat of the 10Th
inst. thus places the saddle on the right
horse, as to the cause of the threatened
instructions in the Southern States. The
Democrat is published in the slave State
of Missouri, and supported Buchanan for
President, which facts we state that our
readers may not suppose that its opinion
is affected by any bias towards the. .Repub-
licans. 1t says;
The country has recently been startled
by the discovery of wide spread and deep
laid plans of iasurrection among the ne
groes in the southern States. This dis
covery has carried dismay and terror to
the hearts of many people, and, indeed,
nothing could be better calculated to ava
ken alarm in the bosom of the boldest
A man who could face death in its most
appalling shape with frmness and con-
stancy, might well shrink with apprehen-
sion and dismay from a danger which
threatens to bring death, and worse than
death, to the wife of his bosom, and the
children that surround his hearthstone.
Such of the Southern journals as that
attempted to give any explanation of the
cause Of these instructions, have concur
red in attributing ito the discu< sion of
the slavery question during the recent
Presidential election. 1t is well known
that in this State, and all over the South,
the pro- slavery party have denounced all
who opposed their scheme for extending
slavery into Kansas as abolitionists. and
charged that all such persons, composing
an immense majority at the North. were
determined, if they obtained power, to
abolish slavery throughout the Union.
Of course this was falsehood, and
known to be falsehooi by those who
gave it utterance; but the slaves who
listened to these wild harangues from
the furious pro slavery demagogues, in
tending to embitter the masses of the
Southern people against the people Of
the North, were not unwilling to give
credence to story SO fattering to their
hopes, and hence they have been promp-
ted and encouraged to the attempts which
have been so recently discovered and sup
pressed.
Who is to blame for the disasters from
which the wives and daughters of the
South have just barely escaped, by the
timely, and we might also say, providen-
tial disclosures of the designs of the
slaves? Undoubtedly the lying dema-
gogues, who, for party purposes and for
the sake of personal advancement, have
gone about Illuminating their falsehoods
against all the people of the North, and
have prompted and encouraged the slaves
to revolt, which never would have been
attempted, except for the hopes inspired
of aid and assistance from the people of
the North? Who is to be blamed for the
gloom and apprehension which S till
broods over the South? and who has
caused the embarrassment to the business
of the people in the districts where these
outbreaks have occurred? The answer
is still the reckless and unprincipled dem
agogues who gave rise to the slavery agi-
tation by the repeal of the Missouri Com
promise, and who endeavored to justify
this outrage by attributing to the people
of the North, the design of abolshing
slavery in the Southern States.