Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-12-03

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But, sir, you are oil mistaken in your estimates,
and the result of this outbreak shows that you are
a deluded pack. So for as your insurrectionary
movements are concerned, we are not alarmed in
the South. Not single slave Joined you in this !,
miserable IIarp per's Ferry enterprise, and for the
good and sufficient that they are not dssat-
isfed with their condition. I am astonished that
man of your reading has not long since been
convinced that negroes can never combine. so as
to have an extended and Simultaneous movement
No ten plantations can ever form combination
without being discovered. The Chartists, in their
movements in England, some years ago, we're una
hle to combine, and were routed and dispersed
without any trouble. The Canadians, in their
revolt, some years ago, failed to combine, and
we're dispersed 10 confusion and disgrace. Meth
er the Irish Patriots Of 49, nor the reckless pack
associated with the no,rous JOhn Mitchell, in q
more rec mt movement, could combine, and they
were forced to abscond.
But If negroes could combine, they have NJ fire.
arms, and no experience in their use, Dunmore
offered all the slaves Fl eedom, who would join him
in the Revolution. and they refused to enlist. The
Tories took to him enough to Constitute regiment,
and in the hour of trial they refused to fight
against the whites. In South Carolina during the
war of the Revolution, the negroes acted with
their masters, and it is matter of record, that
tho Whig negroes rendered Gen. Green great SER
vice. In 1872, Gen. Ross, by proclamation, offer
ed freedom to I'LL slaves wEo would join him, and
he got none! When he landed at large planta-
ton to take number on board they all took to
fight, and carried with them to place of safety,
opinion that Ross and his men wanted to put them
in their pockets. Our negroes in the South have
lost all confidence in Northern Abolitionists, and
believe that they are only stealing them fer pur-
poses of speculation.
! Once more: the Creeks, who held vast numbers
of slaves, suffered from instructions. Spar
ta, Athens, and Troy, had eight slaves to free
man. AID in mostc ases they were as intelligent as
their owners, but there were no instructions
among them. The Jews, who had to strengthen
themselves by ensaveing the Edomities before
they could take Canaan, never suffered from an
nsurrection, though their slaves were their SUPERB
urs in point of Intelligence. The Slaves in Rome
were two to one, when compared with their oy ers
and nothing like an insurrecion occurred. The
greatest defeat Hannibal met with in Italy, was
at the hands VI iegions OF slaves under Semp phro
Mus. Rome, it is we'll known. grew in power. as
: she increased the number Of her slaves, and never
suffered from an insurrectionary movement. On
one Or two occasions only, was any trouble given
by slaves, and this occasioned by the condu uc,
Of deserting Roman soldiers when the slaves were
in the right. tasl
History records but one successful insurrection
in our hemisphere, and that was in St. Domingo
in l79l. The leland then contained 100000 in
habtants, of whom only $4,000, or the sixteenth
part of the population were whites. That move
ment was stimulated by low down, enervated and
vicious white persons, like glorious old John
Brown and his boys who envied the Spanish and
French planters. These facts are briefly sketched
and drawn from reliable author as our coun.
try affords now lying before me. l have submit
ted them with view to show you how foolish g
scheme you are engaged in. l say you because
honestly believe you have been a: Harper's Ferry
in person, and ipglorlously fed, when danger star
ed you in the face. If you were not there in per
son, your letters to glorious old John Brown are
in the possession Of Gov. Wise. showing that you
were aiding aud abettng in this murderOus WORK
hope the letters will Le published, and that
requistion will be made upon the New York Gov
! ernor for you Should you be brought to Virgins
and hung, it will be curious fact, if am there
and present on the scaffod to administer to you
r in your dying agonies, the consultations Of tht
Gospel
You reco.lect, that in our discussion at Phila
; delphia, only thirteen months ago. you notified
me that Shareholders in the South would be made
20 sleep with Revolvers under their pillows a
night This Harper's Ferry insurrecti.n is th
= opening of the campaign. resulting disastrousl.
to the scoundrels associated with you. We hav
n put some of your party to sleep with cold plank
r under their heads, and others of you We inten'
d shall sleep with ropes around your necks. Hop
! ing to hear from you soon, have The honor to be
e &c. G. W. BROWNLOW,
J. Editor Of the KnorriHe Wig.