Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-11-18
sshe Hessson of the Rarper.g re1rry Esiot

sessgd CetslaSels from a Virginia Pyess-Dg
gerords Increase OF lflsiattoes at the South.
The Wheeling Ialtelifeepoe4 the leading iou
nal of Western Virginia, has the following
dieious and striking remarks in its issue of 0
a tober 81:
4 The Investigations which have been and a
: being made into the secret history of the r
Z cent Iible and remarkable outbreak will v
hope and believe, be productive Of good infll
ence upon the popular mind in both section
4 of the Union. 1t has two lessons, which
seems to US that it may very appropriated
ieah. The first of these is the lesson which
viii convey to the North, teaching thenr {
Hook even with more than their wide sprea
aversion upon the principles and teachings {
fiii5se visionary fanatics among them who. lik
! Garrison & Co, claim that the constitution Q
our country SIS covenant with hell, and tha
the duty of slaves is to rise in the night tim,
and free themselves from thraldom by cuttins
the throats of their masters and helping them
selves to the property accumulated by their an
requitted toll. 1t will, We say, teach the north
ern people. when these fanatical abolitionist
go about through their cities and towns, hold
| ing their periodical Saturnalia. to look upol
their principles in the proper light, and will in
spire in their minds more Of deep seated hos
tility to their wicked and disorganizing rawlings
In this way the results of these investigations
viii affect the Northern mind for good
On the South it ought likewise to make q
deep impression. Here. in this T 7arper's Ferry
riot we have an Illustration which both prccept
and example have before told US, is altogether
a possible contingency III country in whose
midst there exists Il large and degraded class
of humanity. We cannot take fire in our bo-
SONS and not be burned, the Scripture and our
own experience have taught US. Neither can
we have III our midst four millions of serfa.
whose color, whose intellect, whose habits,
whose everything is different from the ruling
element, without liabilities to the same dangers
that have always attended society in every
country where such large servile element has
existed. San Domingo has taught this lesson
| 10 the world. Southampton has taught it to
the people of this country and this State
Scarcely more insecure are those people who
work by day and sleep by night underneath
/ the erafers of Vesuvius and Htna, who are
lsiiahie to an irruption at any moment of burn
ing lava, than many communities of our south
ern States where the slaves number two or
three 10 one Of The whites. These slaves, by
their constant and rapid ilegitimate intermin-
Cling with the whites as well as by the very
dition of contact between superior and inferior
races, are becoming in each generation more
intelligent, and consequently more the object
Of dread. They are sloughing off gradually
that topper and obtusencss Of mind seemingly
e, Al.
ding their original dark hue. Slowly, but GER
tainly, they are acquiring more OF the charac-
teristics Of the white Faces and ioosing those Of
tae African. Lock at the frightened complex
ion Of the race III all our southern cities and
towns. In Charleston, South Carolina for in
Stance the mixed element in1measurab:y pre-
dominates over that o. tie black aud s, we be-
iieve, equal to if not greater than the white
population. Look at many other of the South
Carolina communities. Look at Richmond,
Lynchburg, Petersburg, Norfolk and other
places in our State. we ought to look these
thngs in the face now. They have all iinpor-
'ant practical bearing on our social condition.
When we hear men and papers either openly
advocating or covertly winking at a revival Of
The odious slave trad, it IS time that public
attention was called to these things. 1t is
useless to rail at wicked and reckless abolition
ISIS, like Brown, who in their blind fanaticism
t!luk-if they think or care at alI-that they
ara doing God service when they teach and aid
saves to rise against their masters. There
will always be such men. They are to be ex-
2ectel when we think of the vast amount Of
opinion, religious aud ncn-religious, which eX-
Rts throughout great country like ours on
fhe moral and political aspects of d national
question like that Of slavery Likewise it is all
useless and idle to expect that men having
minds to think-minds which must thinls-and
tongues which are free to speak, will ever stop
having opinions or expressing them upon either
the justice or the eXpedience Of slavery in the
abstract. Our security lies in advancing, not
in retreating. We must look to the future of
the two races. We must 60 back and read up
the opinions of the fathers of the republic as
to the probable ssne of slavery in this country.
1--WE must know that the best men of that era
busted themselves not only with conjecture as
to what were to be its results, but also with
ways and means by which they might be able
to provide against these very Instructions
Mr.. Jefferson, we should remember, up to his
dying hour never ceased to express his appre-
tensions and to suggest his plans for exemption.
The possible contingency of great San
Domingo rebellion, he declared. was to him
continually like a fire bell in the night" He
| "trembed," he said, "to think Of it." And it
was because that he so well knew the peculiar
conditions which invested the negro race both
naturally and artifcially in this country, that
he dwelt so earnestly on his plan for Central
American colonization of the race. Some
| thing Of this sort has got to be done. For
look at it : We have now nearly four millions
of serfs among us. They are increasing in a ra-
ito wholly unknown to the white race. Not
| only this, but, as we said, they are imbibing
the energies and taking on the color of the sIl-
peror race. They now range all the way up
the scale from the jet black TO the offspring OF
| quadroons. Does anybody t1atter himself that
| the usually sullcn mulatto has no more am
btion, no more energy Of mind, than the AZ
rican proper? Do not the facts show they
have? The fact that the cross Of two antag-
onistic bloods make them short lived, as a class
has demonstrated to psychologists that they are
the worst class of inhabitants "A country can
have. Nearly all the poisoning case that have
created so much alarm in the South have oc-
cured at the hands Of mulattoes. Mrs. Stowe
did well to make the desperate Casey, in In
| Gle Tom" a muatto. She was not an exag-
geratcd type. But ii is notorious that not on
| " Legree. but that thousands Of other men in
the South, readily pay premium for such
| high strung creatures rs Casey.
But we cannot pursue the subject further to-
day. 1t is one that needs more statistics and
more time for proper elaboration than we can
bring to it now. We are greatly in hopes as
indeed we have been for some back, that it will
ere long elicit attention from our more expert
enced and sagacious public men. And although
it has more than its usual force aud interest