Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1859-11-10
EDITOR.


To What - the South Tending.
During the past two weeks the
country has boon startled by tho report,
which has flown on the wings OF light
ming from Maine TO Texas, of an in
surrection at Harper's Ferry. Virginia
Though il turned out to lie mea.er
affair. got up BY some nineteen men.
and was soon put down. and It's lead
ers imprisoned. We, for q time it put
large portion OF the South in state of
CONSERVATION and alarm. And If no
further results of serious character
proceed from il, it has seemed to lit
tho vail from the Shareholders domin-
ions. and show him the innate weak
ness and the terrible Insecurity OF the
social and political superstructure
which is bui;t upon basis of wrong
aud outrage. In the words Of III, y.
y. Evening Post
NO one can think Of the possible
results OF an outbreak OF this kind,
shonld it become general, without
shuddering. without calling mp to his
imagination the most terrible scenes OF
inecndiariSm. carnage and rape. In
nearly all the Southern States the ne
grocs greatly preponderate in number;
many OF them. it Is true, are too igno-
rant and stupid to take any effective
part in an Instruction. others, too.
are profoundly attached to their mas
tiers or their families: bat these except
cd. there are yet thousands able and
willing to strike for their emancipa-
ton. II has been impossible to keep
them in entire ignorance of the bless
ings of freedom. aud Of the possibility
-of attaining It by force OF arms; the fu-
gitive slaves of the North have found
means OF communicating with their
old comrades; the abolitionists have
spoken to them by pictures. if not by
language: democratic orators have
told them falsely that the entire North
was engaged in crussde against the
South for the sake OF the slaves; and
as servants in the -citics they have
heard the talk Of the parlor and the
bar rooms. and IN iuaumerabie other
ways have been made 20 think and to
desire. When the hew comes, there
fore, they will not be found either SO
incapablc or so docile a. the slayehoid-
crs seem to suppose.
"But what a condition OF society is
that in which one half the population
constantly menaccs the other half with
civil war and murdsr-in which the
leading classes go to sleep every night.
carlessly, it may be, over the crater OF
volcano--and Ia which the dangers
do not lessen, as in other societies,
with time. but grow with is growth UNI
til an explosion becomes As inevitable as
tie irruption of Etna or Vesuvius!-
What condition of society. to beck
tended over the virg:E territories of
the West. the scat of eur future en-
pne. and for which politicians should
clamor and scar their conscience and
desperadoeS should fight!
allow insane the policy which
would recruit and extend this form OF
social existence. even while it is be-
coming unmanagable as it Is. Open
the gates of the slave-trade. cry to the
southerners. who are as great fanatics
as Brown; tap the copious resources Of
africa. let new millions OF blacks BE-
added to the enormous number that
now cultivate our fields, let the alarm
ing diSproportion between them and
! the whites be increased; it is blessed
Institution. AMI we can not have too
much of it, But while they speak.
the tocsin sounds. the blacks are in
arms, their houses are in flames. their
wives and children driven into exile OF
killed. and n furious servilc war
stretches its horrors over years. That
is the blessed institution You ask us to
foster, and spread, and worship. and
for the sake OF which you even shout
your impotcnt threats against the
N~grand ediiice OF the Union"
Whether these terrible possibilities
OF tho slave system will even be actual
izei, is, Of course, question which
only the future can answer. There
are those who believe the system can
only come 10 an end through blood
she'd and the dire calamities of war
And the reprobate spirit that reigns
and grows rampant atthe South. whose
arguments are the revolver and the
dagger. would seem TO involve such a
contamination. But we hope for bet
ter things. We hope that the advance
of ruth anil civilization will forestall
such result.
The slave system is a doomed sys-
tenn: it can not live; il viii come to an
end and none shall help it. And il
the whites of the South were wise in
their generation, instead of extending
is area. and aggravating its condition
by re-openins the slave-trade with all
its horrors and diabolism, they would
hasten TO prepare the way for its
peaceful extinction. The whole sys-
TEN IS one OF compassion and war
wsged and enforced in obvious viola
! tion of the sacred rights OF man. hav
ing It's origin in fraud and the most in
human violence. and its cruelty is 50