New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-10-27
THE VIRGINIA INsURRRCrION.

lucIc dIc LWO polBaoi '.cW iiVu VIC my
look at tie little servie trouble at H.rpers Ferry
in Virginia We notice that The Richmond Hhs,
With degree of laughing philosophy Lot TO b
lipbtly condemned in this folenn and sober sge,
takes the jolly ard joking side, and ridicules the
agony Of those brave fellows who shed q few nstu-
raj tears over tbeir hepmstes and of.prine, before
departing for the sest aud scenes Of war. The
Hnir ssys that these noble mitsuen cried. There
was, We are particularly informed weeping aud
w.iug" Well, suppose there was. Was it not
yery NATURAL Tbess despairing wives, these fright
ened children, what did they know OF the real ex-
tent OF the Danger threatening their beloved pro-
t.c,orsl They have been taught-thsy have been
tsuehtfrcm inf.ncy-by esislation, BY Preschiog,by
Journalism, by common conversation. By constant
fears. by the pulpit BY the press, BY sppreheu'ions
too grave slost to be whi'p-red-th.t, in spite OF
police regulations a. stringent as the ingenuity OF
the human intellect could devise, daily LIE was
lived iD peril and nightly sleep snatched in peril and
that white men and white women and white chill
dren breathed ard had their being at the mercy and
BY the gracious permission Of black men-of race,
the Intent strength of which could only be
prevented from breaking tito open aud murderous
in,urrection by all manner OF precautions, whether
'avagely oppressive or simply the manifestations OF
timioity. The slave-statutes Of Virginia are but
legislsted, enacted concrete fright So, when the
trap-b bands Of Vreinis buckled and strapped, and
hemeted, and knapsacked themselves, and when
the drums beat and the swords flashed, and the
flies squeaked, and tie banners capped, why should
not each Andromache have wePt upon the we'll
buttoned bosom Of her crest-wsviDg Hector, and,
with prophetic premouitions have imagined to
herrelf her beloved, with cloven casque, with
bideous ga,hes in fatal places or possibly, having
been enslaved by the triumphant blacks, and ex-
posed in the most isnominions manner upon the
auction block, sold for q rdculously small sum of
money, changing bis relation suddenly from
owner 10 owned, and compelled to dig for the rest
Of life instead of compelling others to dg-fndiDg
bis property copfscated, his children b.stardized,
his beloved, dearly cherished vote-his prin.
cpAl property-refused at the hustings, fog
eed if caught reading, logged if caught
writing, logged very severely indeed if
be grumbled, without wages, without sde-
quste food, without fashionable clothiDg-snubbed,
spit upon, sworn at-without hope here and with
30 hope for the hereafter except that which South
ern assemblies and syDods, presbyteries and ses-
siops, copgreg cations and conferences graciously-
in fact by special erace-peI mitted him in bis hor.
rible condition to indugel The gentle hearted
DANES of Richmond foresaw al this and wept pro-
turely at the roll of the departing drums. Where
upon The Richmond Hhig, with want OF feeling
which argues a plenty Of brutality, exclaims:
"What are you crying at This weeping and
"'wsilng' are ridiculous! Put up your pocket
bandkerchiefs and shoulder arms" And jour-
nal of this city very justly thinks that these sneer'
indicated Z" cold-bearted Indifference aud mLevo-
leuce;" and for once--for the first time If our
memory serves u,-we agres with the journal
aforesaid.
Withou! attaching too much importance 70 the
Hsrper's Ferry emeute, and we believe certainly
that the fuss and feathers have beer out of all pro-
portion to the actual danger yet who does not see
that really tn. af,ir might haze been seriou', 10
spite Of the exceedingly bland humor of The Rich
mond Hhig1 1t cannot be pleasant 10 the
sensitive ,lsveholders Of Virgins TO know
that there are men like Old Brown and his 1850
ciates-who are not afraid to risk their lives their
liberties and their cash, in iuch cause 1t is not
what one solitary fanatic can effect which const
tues the daneer-butt ID the fact that there il one
such. He can be csptured, imprisoned, tried and
straDeed-but all that does not bring safety. II is
the possibility of insurrection, suggested to the
mind Of the slave by the most magnificent affair Of
this nature, which alarms the master. Alas whereas
the remedy IL il TO be found in ferocous Leading
articles, prepared by theEckspttle presses of the
North Or in frightened leading articles in the
mindless, the stultifed presses Of the South Or
in the proclamations of Gov. Wise When the
great catastrophe has come and psssed-when the
dead are buried, and the wounded are healed and
rsvsged plantations bloom again, and men
think more wisely, and feel more humAnely
and oct more sensibly, than it Is possible fox them
now to do in Virginia-msny here, and most at the
South, will wonder at tho folly Of their reasoning
and the fruit which it bore in their tiradity. Poit
csIy, Virgins il not in pleasant condition, nor
is any other Slave State; but hss lot Virgina-
have not the other Slave Ststes-moral courage
and Intellectual vigor enough TO grsppls with the
difficulty and to conquer it. II the South always
to get along by subterfuge, by e1pedisnts, by
queI ching the FIRE with fax For the sake of re-
tain;pg some little respect for Southern humanity,
we kindly, and in the most generous spirit Assert
Southern imbecility. For We d. not believe that
Southern men, in full Intellectual vigor, and with
half an eye open to the future would dave TO trans
nit to their children such legacy Of constant sociL