The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1859-12-21

IRE; and the confagrations which were
visible from the town in thousand different
quarters, furnished a prospect more shock
ing and reflections more dismal than fancy
can paint or the powers Of man describe"
Such. cir, matter Of history, is a servile
insurrection. Now let us take glance at
the state Of things in the Southern States,
co'members 40 they are with US in the great
Republican Confederacy. Let vs. consider
over what sort of PoplAtion it 10 that some
persons among US think it not only right and
coRmendable, but in the highest degree he.
role, saint like, God.like, to extend the aw.
ful calamity which turned St. Domingo into
heap of bloody ashes in 1871. There are
between three and four million of the color
ed race scattered through the Southern and
Southwestern States. in small groups in ci-
ties, towns. villages, and in larger bodies on
isolated plantations; in the house, the factc.
ry and the field; mingled together with the
dominant race in the various pursuits of life;
the latter amounting in the aggregate to
eight or nine millons, if rightly recollect
the numbers. Upon this community, thus
composed, it was thS design OF Brown to let
loose the hell hounds of a servile insurrec
tion' and TO bring on a struggle which, for
magnitude, atrocity, and horror, would have
stood alone in the history Of the world
(Applause.) And these eight or nine mil.
lions, against whom this frightlul war was
levied, are our fellow citizens, entitled with
US to the protection OF that compact Of gov.
eminent which recognizes their relation to
the colored race--a compact which every
sworn officer Of the Union or OF the States
is bound to support.
Among them, cir, is . fair proportion of
men and women of education and culture
of moral and religious lives and characters
virtuous fathers, mothers, sons and daugh.
ters, persons who would sdorn any station
of society, in any couDtry-men who read
the same Bible thst we do, and in the name
Of the same Master. kneel at the throne oI
the same God, forming a class Of men from
whish have gone forth some Of the creates,
and purest characters which adorn our his.
tory-Washington, Jefferson, Madison,
Monroe, Marshall. These are the men, the
women, for whose bosom pixies and rifles
are manufactured 10 New England, 10 be
placed in the hands OF an ignorant subjec,
race, supposed, most wrongtully, as recent
events have shown, to be waiting only tol
an opportunity to use them. (Applsuse. :,
J Sir, have on three or four different occs
sions, in early life and more recently, Wis
tied all the Southern and Southwestern
States, with the exception OF Arkansas snc
Alabama. have enjoyed the city and the
country; have had the privilege before
crowded and favoring audiences, to hold W
the character of the father of his country
and TO indicate the blessings Of the Union
in the same precise terms in which hevt
done it here, ut home, and in other portion
! Of the land. have been admitted to tn
= confidence OF tho domestic circle, and hav
} seen there touching manifestations of tn
kindest feelings by which that circle, in al
. it's members, high and low, master and ser
want, can be bound together ; and when
t contemplate the horrors that would have en-
n sued had the tragedy on which the curtain
3 rose at Harper's Ferry been acted ou,
Q through all its scenes of fire and sword, G
D lust and murder, Of rapine and desolation t
r the final catastrophe, am filled with emo
n tions 10 which no words can do justice.-
d There could OF course be but ono result, an
It that we'll deserving the thoughtful mediatio
It Of those, if any auch there be, who thin
;. that the welfare of the colored race could
e any possibility be promoted by the success
g Of such movement, and who are willing I
4. purchase that result by 80 costly a sacrlic,
E, The colored population of st. Dominp
If amounted to but little short OF half millio
a while the whites amounted to only thir
10 thousand. The white population of Il
Southern States alone, in the aggregat
Or outnumbers the coored race in the ratio
10 two to one in the Union at large in Il
I'd ratio of seven to one, and if (Which Heave
ar avert) they should be brought into conAic
>. it could end only in the determination OF Il
,e latter after scenes of woe, for which Ia
ID guage is too faint, and for which the liv
I'd liest fancy has on adequate images of he
a. ror. Such being the case, some one mi
N ask, why does not the South fortify herse
,g against the possible occurrence of such
NC catastrophe, by doing away with the o
as great source from which it can spring
c, This 10 q question easily asked, and 4
as not aware that it 10 our duty at the MOI
e. to answer it but it may be observed II
g. great and radical changes in the framewo
10 OF society, involving the relations of twel
m. millions of men, will not wait on the biddi
Is; Of an impatient philanthropy. They c
only be brought about in the lapse of tin
'as by the steady operation of physical, ecol
ly, mi;al, and moral causes. Have those, "
ur. rebuke the South for the continance of G
he yery, considered that neither the pres
cir generation nor the preceding one is resp
mt, sible for it's existeoce The African eli
ke. trade was prohibited BY act of Congress Fl
eat one years ego, and many years earlier
Tho the separate Southern States. The ent
ol- colored population. with the exception, p
or haps, of d few hundreds surreptitiously
ht, troduced is native to the soil. Their auc
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