Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1857-01-11
SUNDAY MORNING, JAN. II, 1857.
THE Recent IEsURREOTIOEARY ExCTnIENTs

rae REOEEF IEsURRECTIONARY ExCTEIENTs.
The abolition papers Of the North and few of
the Know Nothing journals in the South are fur
nshing their readers with what they call "the phi
losophy Of he.recsnt insurreetionary excitement"
We propose to give our readers brief summary
Of their arguments, that they may see to what
hslplessness and dependence these journals would
subject them. The New York Tribune of recent
date, reviewing this subject, says:
SOur Southern brethren have been for several
years past very busily employed in putting into
theheads Of their slaves precisely such conspira-
eles. No doubt 'the eXcitements of the late Pres
idsntisl campaign" may have given a new impulse
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 uu-
easy, than peTpetualy TO represent 70 them iD the
most exaggerated terms, the progress Of AboHGon
ideas at the NORTH What more certs;R way to
instgate plots among the slaves to secure their
own freedom, than TO hold up before their eyes the
Northern States IS the seat of powerful, extern
Eive and implscabe conspiracy to the same end2
Who can doubt that the Fugitive Slave law, for
instance, and the painful and not very successful
attempts to force its execution upon the unwil-
ling North hRVa, in their results and in the ideas
they have been the means of conveying to the
minds Of the slaves, already prompted more than
q hundred escapes for every individual slave that
viii ever, to the end of time, be recovered under
its provisonf Ii is not alone ION the outskirts of
pubhc meetings." about which, IS The Bulletin
compla rs, Slaves are permitted to hang by the
overland indulgence Of their masters" that "the
more intelligent among them catch to some ex-
tent the spirit Of the inaammatory haraugues in
which imprudent politicians too frequently indulge
The idea 80 sedulously propagated in so many
rY7prg ali Fba
Southern newspspers-snd so perpetualy the
subject Of both bar-room and household discus
sion in many parts Of the Southern States-the
idea that it is necessary for Southern shareholders
to be constantly on their guard against an alleged
plot Of the Northern States to emancpste their
slaves, cannot tail to penetrate into the minds of
the slaves themselves Just fast and Just as deep
as it does into the minds of the masters nor haV.
ing done 60 can it fail to produce natural fruits
notification, rebellion and separation in the other"
The New York Herald, with its accustomed i'm
pudence and black guardism says:
We may say to our Southern disunion niger
driving democracy that these incipient fires of ne
gro instruction are fires of their own kindling-
Their niggers DO not take the NsU York Herald,
but depend upon what they may hear from such
Solons as Msssa Wise, Msssa Brooks Marsa
Toombs, or MRssa Slidell-N 2. Herald
The argument Of these papers is that the South
must cease to represent "the progress of Abolition
ideas at the North lest it "instigste plots among
the slaves to secure their own freedom" This is
certainly dire extremity to which they wish to
reduce us. An enemy is approaching upon US, or
lying in ambush TO attack Us, and we dare not
speak, lest in the opinion Of these people, we in
stigate rebellion among our slaves. Abolitiouism
would have good time of it if it could thus sue.
coed in intimidsting the South.
The South appreciates the evils Of this causeless
agitation, but she will never go to her sworn enc
mics for advice. Impressed with the evils of this
agitation, and knowing that it is forced on by the
aggessions of the North, it will but make the
Southern people more united as the proper remedy
Of the evil.
From abolition journals no more is to be ex-
pected than we have heard. They are inwardly
delighted with the "morsl effect" of such social
sgtstons in the south. At this We are not to be
surprised; but what the people to think of such
journals in the south as give aid and comfort TO
these northern cut-thrOats, by joining in the cry
that we must cease to expose the designs of our
enemies and tsmeIy submit to their wrongs and
indignites or be chsrgeabls with the evils we have
Just experienced. Such is the course of the Louis
vile JoarDa! and few other papers published in
slave States The Journal says:
"The frequency of these reports from various
parts Of our own State, and of almost all other
southern States induce the belief that they are not
altogether attributable to northern sOotionists.-
They the unavoidable result of the speeches of
democratic iucendisries. They have been caused
by the outrageous speeches and statements Of the
democratic electors and democratic organs in the
recent canvass"
mot altogether attributable TO northern sboli-
tionists, but are the unavoidable result of the
speeches OF democratic incendiaries" And yet
this apologist for northern abotonists," finds its
way into, and is the political Bible of score of
Tennessee Shareholders in preference to their own
papers in Nashville. Shame upon such men. They
are more deliterious to our social order than the
assaults Of aboHtionists themselves We forbear
comment, leaving our readers to form their own
opinions.