The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-12-30

AnE NhUKo 1NsVkkECTlON IN MISSOURI--CON-
TINUATIoN OF THE IRREpREsslBLE CoNFLIcT.-It
will be seen by telegraphic despatch from st.
Louis, in another column, that an incipient ne
gro instruction showed itself on Monday night
in the town of Bolivar, in the slave State Of
Missouri. 1t is remarkable fact that almost
Immediately after Mr.. Seward made his cele-
brated "irrepressible conflict" speech at Ro-
chester, John Browns reasonable foray was
organized and subsequently developed at Har
per's Ferry; and that now, on the very eve Of the
return to this country of that great instructor
of the irrepressible conflict party, negro in
surrection should break out in Missouri. AL
though the citizens OF Bolivar succeeded by
their promptitude in driving the insurgent ne
groes from the public square into the woods
and thus saved the town from the confagration
which the negroes threatened, it is evident that
the intention was to commence then and there
negro Instruction. The negro u.s. in an emf
nent degree, an initiative animal, easily led
astray, and prone always to follow the example
of the white man, and though neither brave nor
very excitable, is often carried away by that
kind Of passion for glory which led the FIVE free
negroes who accompanied John Brown to par
race. Thus the negro is often found-acting
under evil infuences-to commit deeds, the
consequence or criminality of which he is igno-
rant Of 1t was doubtless the sympathy excited
for Brown and his followers, as well as the re-
cent action of some of the slave States with re-
ference to the disposition of free negroes, that
instigated this attempted instruction in Mis-
souri,.
But whatever the cause, or however futile the
attempt, it is significant that it should have &C.
Cured just now. At all events, it shows the
monstrous impudence Of the republican party
in Congress, in endeavoring to force man in
to the position Of Speaker-the third political
Office in the countrywide endorsed the
abominable doctrines of Helpers book.
Helper appeals, be it remembered, to the non
slaveholding whites and free negroes of the
South to rise up against the shareholders; and
this is precisely what the five free negroes of
se es Ct nesSss Il Scs and conism
plated on Monday night. Yet in the face
u tucSe IcSukto VI tuc lLTOClOuS pcaCuluRS OF
Helpers book, and the manifest condemnation
t receives from majority of the
people, the republican members of Con.
gress insist upon putting into the Speakers
chair man who recommended its circulation
and to this day refuses to condemn its doc
trines.
The John Brown treason, with all its bloody
consequences; the recent instruction in Boil.
var, Missouri; the subscriptions Of money
for John Browns family, which the managers
thereof do not limit to number within million
of relatives, or sympathizers; Stewards Roches-
ter manifesto, and Helpers Infamous book, are,
it will be perceived, all parts of the same ma
chinery-portions Of the same programme TO
create servile instruction in the slave States,
to carry out the irrepressible conflict between
the contending forces of the North and South,
and thus destroy the commercial prosperity of
the whole country, and break up this great con
federacy in grand wreck. This is the plat
form upon which Mr.. Sherman seems to stand
in the contest for Speaker.