Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1859-11-08
The Danger and the Renedy.

The foolhardy enae,ste at Harpers Ferry will
result in some good, at least. 1t has already
set the Southern people to rejecting the
probabilities of future attempts OF this kind, and
those under the coatroi and direction of the
slaves themselves 1t has brought into full view
toe preearious foundation upon which rests This
patriarchal Institution 1t may have the effect
upon the wise and rejecting men Of the South,
To cause them to devise some means OF freeing
themselves from the continual dangers which
environ them, instead of increasing those perils
by fresh importation of combustible material
from Africa, and an extension of the same dan
gerous system into free territories, where the
same tragedies may be re-enacted.
They may eventually see that the Republi-
can Party is right; that its policy would limit
instead eff increase, the explosive tendency of
their system. They will perceive that the
peaceable solution of this CUES, ion, which we
propose, is preferable to that insarrectionary
policy which oppressed race, sooner or later,
viii adopt. And they will have no rest,-their
sleep viii be disturbed with the horridan,
nlonStr IN - of manhood asserting its rights
the cries of .heir wives and children will trouble
their repose until the whole system is spurr
ed from them as viper taken into their breasts
and warmed into life
The effects of this last lmbroglio are thus
summed up by the N. Y. Tribune:
Without attaching 100 much importance to the
Harper's Ferry erneute and we believe certain
ly that the fuss and feathers have been out OF
all proportion to the actual danger, yet who
does not see that really the affair might have
been serious in spite of the exceedingly bland
hunor of The Richmond Wing? 1t cannot be
pleasant to the sensitive shareholders OF NIr-
GINA TO know that there are men like old Brown
and his associat es-who are not afraid To risk
their lives their liberties. and their cash, IN such
a Is 1t not what one solitary fanatic can
effect which CO. stitutes the danger--but 1t =
the fact that there Is one such. he can be cap
tured. imprisoned, tried and strangled-but all
this does not bring safety. Ii is the possibility
of instruction, suggested to the mind of the
slave by the most insignificant affair OF this Ia
ture which alarms the master. Alas where Il
the remedy? Is IL to be found in the ferocIous
leading articles, prepared by tbs Ickspittle
presses of the North Or In frightened leadI e
articles In the mindless, the stutified presses OF
the South Or of the proclamation of Govern
or Wise When the great catastrophe has come
and pasSed--when the dead are buried. and the
wounded healed, and ravaged plantations
bloom again, and men think more wlsel Y. nd
feel more humanely, and act more senslbly, tina
II II - possible Tor them no" 10 40 IN virginia
many here. and most at the South, will won
der a. the folly OF their reasoning. and the fruit
hich it bore in their timIdity Politically, Vir-
GINA Is not in pleasant condition. nor IS any
other Slave State; but has not Nirginia-have
not the other Slave States--moral courage and
intellectual vIgor enough to grapple with the diff
ficulty and 10 conquer it Is the South al
WAYS to get along by subtertuge, by expedien;s.
by queuchng the fire with fax For the sake
of retaining some little respect for Southern hu-
manity, we kindly. and the most generous
spirit, assert Southern imbecilIty For do
not believe that Southern men, in full intellec
| tual vigor and with half an eye open to the fu-
/ ture would dare transmit to their children such
legacy of constant social trouble. of perpetual
ted barbaritv or barbarism of impoverishment,
of moral s,olidity, and of mental poverty. The
human mad is decaying with awful rapidity in
Virginia or the human heart there Is growing
hard beyond all precedent in history.