Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-01-03
THE SLAVE INSTRUCTIONS.

The Baltimore American comments upon the
late alarm at the South in regard to slave insur-
rections as follows
The New York Tribune, and other journals of
that class, whose reason and sympathies are alike
ruled by ultra opposition to the South, specu-
late curiousy upon the late servile instructions
in the South ard Southwest, and scarcely at
any trouble so hide the exultation with which they
argue such occurrences to be the natural result OF
the institution ITSELF and only in their present
actuality the opportunity to censure the severity
which in their alarm and CONSERVATION the whites
used as the means of protecting themselves from
dangers the most horrible the mind can contem
plate. The fanaticism of these journals has never
presented itself in SO revolving form this cir
cumstance has given to it. Ia their greed for sec-
tiona agitation, they. are tacitly willing that the
South should experience all the horrors of the
monstrous and hideous tragedy that would follow
the successful rising of any portion Of her servle
population. The most terrible carnage and the
most fendish outrage, recommend themselves as
necessary results in the accomplishment of pur-
pose to which they suhjugate every other consider
ation and if slavery can be abolished in no other
way, they are willing to see its abolition reached
through the exterminatioD of the slave.
Any thing like general successful rising of the
slaves in this country is of course out of the ques
ton. A St. Domingo massacre would be an i'm
possibility, even in those portions of the slave
States where the relative population is most in ia
| vor Of the negro But it is just possible that in
some solated neghborhoods the infurated slave
might obtain few days or hours possession OF
unrestrained power, and use it for purpose of mur
der and rapine, in which the male whites would be
Unfortunately slaughtered, and sisters, wives
and daughters subected to that worse fate, which
the negro has always planned as the reward OF
his imag ginary success. 1t is this danger which
awakens the Southern mind to its utmost sensi
tiveness, when the possibility of slave nsurrec-
tha a
to involve any such purpose one of terrible horror
to the stakeholder and Of great severity of punish
meDt to the slave. The imminence of the danger
admits of but one of two results. The relative po-
sition of the master and slave must be preserved
even if it be only accomplished by the immolatior
of the whole or half of the inferior race.
There is little doubt that the present insurrec
tionary movements among the slaves have beer
greatly exaggerated, through. there is equally a
little room for question that throughout wild
section OF country vague idea has found credenc
with the slaves that the recent sectional agitation
was about to bear the fruit of freedom for them
and that the bolder among them have sought t.
hasten this result by combinations among them
selves. But however promptly such purposes OIL
the part of the slave subdued and the maste
| freed from the horror which their contempla
ton suggested the effect vii! still remain and it
influence will be most severely felt by the weak
minded, misguided slave. Though abolitionist
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lation at the South for years past has been in fa
vor of the slave. His rights have been more look
ed after, his person better protected and wber
these ends have not been sought by positive enact
ment, the gradual bnt firm influence of the mora
sentiment of the people has tended practically t.
| the most beneficial amelioraton of his condition
But it may be feared late events will check th
desirable progress, and that years will have t,
elapse before the same relations between th
master and slave are restored. More stringen
laws, sterner disipline, an uneasy suspicion tend
ing to make the master unhappy and the slave th
sufferer, must to certain extent replace the full
confidence and cheerful submission which hat
grown to be characteristic Of American slavery
For these results those responsible who by tn
continued and needless agitation of the SLAYER.
question, if not by the more direct and crimina
agency Of fanatics sent among the servie popula
ton of the South expressly for the purpose of ex
citing them to nsurrecton. have led the ignoran
and easily deluded blacks into the belief tia
a powerful party at the North was ready to bac
their efforts for freedom and approve their acts
murder and outrage in securing it. They ih
professed friends of the slave, have brought upo
him the greatest danger to which he can be expos
ed, making him the subject of repressive meas
ures now, with the certainty OF utter dcstructio
if he is thereby precipitated into rebellion.