Squatter sovereign., 1857-01-13
.aso1n the New York DaF BOOK.
TEE SLAVE IgsUEE EEcTIoN n
THE SOUTH.

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THE SOUTH.
The Evening Post and Tribune are il
ecs.aces over The attempted insurreeiion O
a few deluded negroes instigaled by nouh-
ern .bolitionists in Kentucky. and excailn
with exul,alion, ..let the South beware-iel
them look and see what they are. com
ing to -
! Without going into The causes, or his;o-
frytof tbs i:icurseesioa, wifi Is probably
nothing s.efe than the explosion Of some
dalnnaLle plot of few aboIltionis,s and
Fvillainous rnulattoes who wish TO satiale
their revenge and hatred 10 tie Soni!i, We
would simply ask tie editors OF tie 'Tfib-
and and Post how their political doctrines
If carried out, would remedy the evils
which they say the South suffer The
Back Republicans say they would confine
slavery 10 lis present lthiis-it should hot
be ex;ended-tiat the powers Of the gen
ersl government should be exercised to
keep 1t within its present bounds and that
such werethe principles and policy of the
fathers Of t!ae Republic, Washington, JEFF
fereon and others.
Now. it SO happens that, in George
Wsshinglon's :lme, slavery existed only in
Georgia, South and North Carolina, Vir-
gInis, Maryland and the Northern States.
| Ii he and Jefferson and ether fathers Of
the Republic. had been opposed 10 lis ex
tensan. they wcu'd have confined il 10
those States and the four millions Of
slaves now in the Union would all be in
Ike five above uamed States. Were such
the case :o-day-were Ala hama, Florida,
Louisiana, Mississippi, Arian=as, Texas,
Missouri, Tennessee and Kentucky free
States (Which they would have been had
Washington and Jefferson been sacl men
as Fremont and Seward, and the four mil
lions of negroes. now scattered over all
that vast territory penned Up in tie South
eastern States, close. compact. dwelling
thicklY together, aa ii.s0Trection would be
more than probable, the result OF which
would be the anniIlilation of tie black
race. The post says that il is strange the
South cannot see whence they are driving
and cease there efforts to extend this dan
gerous institution into other territory
Very strange, ism, its Strange, indeed.
that they cau't see that to scatter these He-
sroes would increase The danger Of re-
volt, whilst to pen them up would prevent
discomfort and insurrectionl What would
the post think Of the captain Of a vesssl
with nutinous crew, who would refuse
TO divide his men and put ;hree or four on
board Of half dozen different vessels. on
the ground that they would endanger all
the ships, whilst keeping them together
would save all
We are reasoning now on the Posts
supposition that negro is white man.
and would revolt without white mans IN
stigation and assis.ance-s thing as NOR
ally impossible as for the woman oil Nsw
nd or the apprentices of New Y ork to
revo!, murder their husbands and masters.
But the Posts arguments are simply ride
ulous not SO the Trtune's It's reasonings,if
the following paragraph will bear the name
arc tie rawlings Of traitor-a deep black !
hearted scoundrel-o whose neck de-
serves The halter as richly as ever villains
or traitors head deserved decaptation -
The South must learn that people who
1--we upon the edge of yolcancc are lia- |
BE al any moment to be overwhelmed with |
lis eruplions, But instead of seekisg safe |
ty they invite danger. They ask for
more territory to be subject to the tashlGas- |
ter and his cruei;ies, 10 the Stare and his |
insurrcsiions. They should be taught bet |
ter. Although they may have believed Ia |
the sweet assurance of an EYefett. that 10
cause would SO readily enlist him as a sol
der as one 10 Put down a slave insur- |
rection-an6 that Eyeret, spoke for the
whole Nor;h.''
"It is possible TO kick the patient
man too hard. Let the South, with her
growing Instructions look 10 it. There |
is danger ahead. as shore as history has
spoken and left words of suppressed ssarn-
ing. These last suppressed insarreesions
grew oai OF the discussions on Kansas-
Light will penetrate. VIII these discus
soins cease No. They viii ill the
pubic journals. They vii be the laain
topics in the news paPers and on the stump.
IN tie public councils and private eonversa-
tons. through tie ,hiry-one States. Can
all this writing. ali this printing. all this
speaking go ca AID Inc slave nos catch up |
what IS going ons You may make laws |
defining him as a cl.attei personal '-you /
nay assert iha, his master has the SANS
rirhs cysr him that he kas over his ofi,yrs