M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1859-12-29

al discernment, in other respects, car
be found to approve and sympathizC
with it. tApplause) | am sure i
such persons will bring home to theiI
minds, in any distinct conception, the
real nature Of the undertaking, they
would be themselves amazed that they
had ever given it their sympathy. Il
appears from his own statements and
those OF his deluded associates, of his
biOgrapher, Of his wretched wife, that
The unhappy man who has Just paid
the forfeit OF his life, had for year;
meditated a general insurrection il
! the Southerh States; that be though
the time had nOw come to effect it; thai
the saves were ready to riso and the
non slavohoIling whites to iOin them,
and both were ready to form q new
commonwealth, OF which the consttu.
ton was organized and the officers
chosen. With this wild, but thor
oughly matured plan, he provides
weapons Tor those on whose rising he
calculated at IIhrper's Ferry; h0 seizos
the national arsenal, where there was
. supply OF arms for hundred thous.
aud men, and no intended, if unable
to maintain himself aJ once in the
opea country, to retreat to the noun.
tains, and from their iastnesses har-
raas, paralyzo, and at length rovou-
tionzo the South. To talk OF the
pixies and rifles not being intended for
Offensive purposes, is simply absurd.
! Applause, The first act Of the par
ty WAS to shoot down a free colored
man, whom they were attempting to
impress, and who hed from them
Ono might as well say that the rifed
ordnance Of Louis Napoleon was in.
tended only ior Self.dcience, to be used
only in case the Austrians should un-
dertal,e to arrest his march. Loud
applause, No, sir, it was an attempt
to 10 On vast scale what was done
in St. Domingo il 1901, where the
cOIored population was about equal to
that ol Virginia; and ifany one wo'd
form di6tinct idea what such an OPP
Grafton is, let him sec it-not as a mat
ter OF vague conception-a crude pro-
ject in the mind OF Il heated fanatic,
but as it allowed in the sober pages OF
history, that record the revolt in that
Island; the midnight barnings, the
wholesale massacres, the merciiess
tUrtures, the denominations not to be
named by Christian lips in the hear
ing OF Christian ears-somo OF which
too unutterably atrocious Tor the Eng,
Ilsh language, are OF necessity yelled
in the obscarity Of the Latin tongue.
Allow me to read you few sentences
from the history ofthesc events:
In the town itself, the general be-
lief Tor some time was that the revolt
WAS by no means an extensive one,
but sndden and partial insuuection
only. The largest sugar plantation
on the plain was that Of Mons. Gallilet,
situated about eight miles from the
town, the negroes belonging to which
had always been treated with such
kindness and liberality and possessed
50 many advantages, that it became a
prOverbial expression among the low
CT white people, in speaking Of any
mans good fortune, to say, IL eSt heH-
TeHD comme &A aegyG dc Ga'lEtt
(he is as happy as one of NJ. Gglliiot's
negrOes.) Nj. Odeluc, an attorney or
agent for this plantation, was mem.
Der Of the General Assembly, and be.
ing fully persuaded that the negroes
belonging to itwou!l remain firm IN
JA.!r obedience, detcrmined to repair
thther to encourage them in opposing
the insurgents; to which end he de-
sired the assistance Of few soldiers
from the town guard, which was
granted him. lie proceeded accord.
ingIy, but on approaching the estate,
to his surprise, nc louud ail the ne
grOes IN arms Oh the side Of the rebels,
ana (hogrid to telD their standard was
the body Of white infant, which they
had recently impaled on stake
Mr.. Odeluc had advanced too far to
retreat undiscovered both he and his
friend who had accompanied him with
most VI the soldiers, were killed with
out mercy. Two or three only OF the
patrol escaped by flight, and convey.
ed-the dreadful tidIngs to the inhaDi |
tants olihe town. "N'e ...a -'
by THIS time, all or most Of the
white persons who had been found OH
the several plantations, being massa-
cred or forced to seek their safety in |
flight, the rufians exchanged the
swurdliOr lthe torch. The buildings
and caneie!dS We're everywhere set Oh
fire; and the cuufiagrationS which
were visible from the town in a thou
sand different Quarters, furnished u
prospect more shocking and reflec-
tIonsmofe dismalthan fancy can paint
or the powers Of man describe. a. /
Such, sir, as y matter of history, is
a serylle insurrection. Now let us
ia kp a ulunca at thu statn of thingS i'm