Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1857-01-13

TUESDAY, JAN. 10, 1857.
From the Richmend Examiner
InsurrectiOns-andt the FuIfIity and Folly
na Them.

From the Richmond Examiner
InsurrectiOns-andt the FutiIity and Folly
of them.
Now that Instructions and rumors Of insrr-
rections are beginning to die away, aud the
exaggeraiions of fear and folly have given
place to the sway ofreason and common sense,
il NAV be as well to revert to the subject for
the purpose of bringing few plain sober facts
TO bear upon IT,
And first we have to remark as a significant
historical fact that, during all the centuries
which have elapsed since the African has SER
we'd the Caucasian as his slave on this continent
and the islands thereof no insurrection has
ever been successful in which the proportion
of the slaves to tire whites has not been az
least as preponderant as four TO one. Indeed,
the fact NAV be stated stronger, and the asser-
ton made in entire consistency with historical
truth, that, in all the countries OF our New
World in which African slavery has been
planted there has been but one successful insur-
recton-there is but one portion OF the
continent in possession of the African by
insurrectionary conquest-and that, the i.
land of Havti: in which, of the 100000
inhabitants it contained at the time OF the
black rebellion, at least SIX hundred thousand
were blacks; and, of this number, at least four
hundred and fifty thousand were black males.
Nav, the fact as TO Hayti may be stated yet
stronger still; for it occurred at time when
France was 10 the first throes of that terrible
convulsion which eventnated inriVers OF olood
and in infidelities and crimes that have hxed
q stigma upon humanity as long as the worlG
itself shall remsin.-lt was when thus cut OH
from the protection and thought otthe frenon
nation and while also attacked by poweriul
English expedition-that the French inhabi-
z u h4Tt hnf I
the number of FIVE to one and massacred In
Discriminatory.
Turn away, however, from this single excep>
tional exceptional by sort of cotempor-
sry political necessity-of Hayti, and where
else in all the vast extent and diverse regions,
climates and social and political organisms OF
the New World, is the African the master now,
where be has ever been the slave beforef No
where;-and the fact as conclusively demons
strates his race to be essentially parssltical and
slavery to be his normal, natural and necessary
condition, as it proves his incapacty to carry
through a successful rebellion as well as his
perfect contentment with his lot.
There is but one process to which bis history
on this continent points as practicable Tor ms
attaining to a divided sway with the white,
and a mitigation of his condition OF serVltude
which is, a gradual process of amalgamaton
continued through many generations aid so
universally as to effect a general change anc
debasement in the blood and temper OF the
white race. This is the only recess by when
the African has ever Appropriated equality
with the white man on our cORtlnent;-and Is
the one, notwithstanding, upon which our
Northern niger worshppers' ring the chang
es against us most necessarily when at nome,
and of which they give the most convincing
proofs by their practices when amongst Us OF
their acceptance as the most feasible noue OF
Southern Authorization.
1t seems to US that the uniform history oi
African slavery in our new world LOT three
centuries and half, unbroken but by sih>
gle exception, ought to afford suihclent sssur'
snces of the impossibiiity of successful lnsor'
rection by the African, to dispel any ola Inslo-
en- fear or girlish trepitude which the me. Vi
the South may have harbored at any U'ine
duripr the recent rum0rS of nsurrectioQs-tor
instructions there were none. - Whatever
alarm might have taken possession OF portion
of the Southern comm unity during the pre-"
valence of these reports, could not have result
ted from any actual rebellion or formidable
plots of negroes; but must have been engen-
| dered of that sort of idle tattle and vague ex'
aQgeration in which children sometimes In
duIge around the Preside at night, about ghosts
I
and appearances of the dead in white shrouds,
until they believed the dread objects were
visible before them reckoning them into an
other world, and each presented the miniature
likeness of Hamlet when threatened by his
father with the story of the deep damnatlon oil
his taking off.
IL seems to Us that the time has past for all
formidable demonstrations of Instructions at
the Sooth-unless, indeed the martial spirit OF
the white race is lost and the descendants OF an
cestors who successfully resisted Great Britain,
and with the British soldier in the rear at
tackled the savage in his wilds, and drove linn
from the country, are become metamorphosed
by peace and prosperity into towards IN the
presence of their own slaves.
Why, in the Revolutionary struggle, with
British armies in the east and British emmis'
ries melting the savages against our people IN
the west, the proportion of negroes to whites
in the South was greater than it is at the pre-
sent day, when the savage is no more IN ouI
| land. and the British arrnes are marshalIlng
against Persia at our Antipodes. Here are
the statistics of our white and slave popula
tons in 1890, shortly after the war, when The
proportions of slaves TO whites was even lss'
| than during the war;
White and SIdue Population in 1890