, 1859-10-25

temperate ADVOCATES u the etnFe
Rraue'
To Tie Editor Of tas Nev FORK 1lnes'
There could hardly be stronger argument
agaioss the re.oPenlng Of the slave trade than
has been furnished By the events Of the last
week at Horpet's fcEEJ, and We earnestly COM
mend IL to the attention Of tbe fanatics who
hare been upFoat1ous'y demanding fresn sup
perlty OF the south. an5tnlng could con
vince Sensible nan that the South has quite
negroes enough Tor its comfort, If not Tor its
safety, It would be the uproar created by "old
Browns insurrection- II ne pride ourselves
upon thing. II is upon ne 'Roity oi our Po'
Of conspitators and the rawlings Of Missionaries.
We are always, and with reason, making merry
over the throes Of alarm in which the aespotlc
governments of older countries are constantly
plunged, over their seustiTeness to tue smallest
Indication Of discomfort, over sae souSassions
into which they are thrown ~ the Smallest
riot Or outbreak:
We mock ut these fears Of kaiser aud King
and glory IN our own security. But sec tue e.
hiblt1ou We hare made OF ourselves onf1ng inc
past week! Twenty men. LED hy IN oid mad
man, selze On village IN tue nlght' ana N the
morning take foFc'bie possession OF az afmo1t.
Il things we're IN their normal condition. ihe
Sheriff of the county ought to baye disposed ot
tho matter in The course Of the following day,
by calling Posss from the nelshborhood. 4tlng
rolley, aud battering the door, as the United
states marines did, with ladder or BEAM
The whole affair ought to hare occupied the
same place in your columns with An account Of
Aackerelrilte faction fight, o. Of wholesale
rape or robbery on board baltimore steaha-
bort. The public ought to have treated it rs
they treat the doings.of the Louisiana Vigil
ance Committee, or q the af-eontent laboEers
Of the casei The news Is telegraphed to
all quarters Of the Union ns Being u
] "negro insnrrection," ard forthwith the ex-
citcment becomes as intense as ifa hostile army
had landed ia Chesapeake Bay, and were march,
ing straight On Washington. 4 cabinet meet
cafes intelligence Of such information received
by him weeks previously, United States marines
t and United States artillery arc dispatched to
the seat Of WAT" the Virginia militia and the
Baltimore militia are called Out. Cor. Wise hur-
ries off by express train, breathing out threat-
ish the rebels aud their prisoners together By a
round Of artillery. The upshot Of fhe affair is
| that bv the time the vretched Brown aud his
| twenty men meet their fate: full thousand
troops with artillery, are collected On the spot,
though there has really been no negro rising
/ armed with Sharp's riiles, and shut m in loop
| holed house.
When our Southern friends hare their ouar-
] tiers so easily beaten up by two or three crazy
ndreuturers from Kansas that it takes federal
forces, led br q Colonel of the United States
Army, and two or three regiments Of militia, to
restore their peace Of mind, it nav be permtted
to US respectfully to inquire What the state
Of affairs would be If the negroes did
rise in my considerable body and q
serrilc war really did break outs If
the remedy was, IN such case, to bear
the same proportion to the disease, Il
rs in this Harpers Ferry "insurrection," the
whole militia Of the Western State8. or Ms many
| Of them as could be got pnder arms say 5oo, ,06o
men, would be the least We should be expected
| to contribute to its repression. to say moth
| ing Of our anxiety Of mind, the interruption to
our business. md the expense of keen,ue our
| forces On foot, We ali kpvw, and nobody
| knows better than the Soutberners themselves.
that re should have to hear our part to tie full
est extent. il for human,ty's sake alone. in put.
tinr down nerro re5ellion. We hare then. a