The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-11-17

he fU danger Of eir movements II would appear that
man named Brown who had taken an eager part IN the
struggle in Kansas, formed design Of lioeratDg the
Northern slave by nsnrrcon Of the negroes n
Mary and and Virginia II is well known tht the abol
uoDists-even the moderate Of them.--hRye long
cherished the hope that these regions may discard
slavery In OF tme and were II not for the ma ke
which the slave States afford, the instnton would
probably die north Of the CAronas But Brown
his confedcrates not the TO trust TO time and
10 peaceabe means. Accounts vary as 70 the number
engaged In this desperate enterprise but the Aaes
is that they originally number cd only
white men ana five negroes. II they subsequently, In
creased to ZOO the fact shows how dangerous the
ment must be III such a community and how necessary
the measures for prompt repression The Armory
was taken by de main toe trains stopped the tele
graph wires cut, and all with bodness and success
which showed that the insurgents calculated the gen
eTal support of the slaves The insurgents seized and
held several citizens as hostages, and on the morning
after the outbreak they entrenched In the Armory
where they held out against the troops and militia It is
also reported that portion Of the insurgents had e
under the command OF man named Cook, with large
party Of slaves and were supposed 70 be moving towards
Pennsylvania
course there can be issue to this foolish and
wicked enterprise The Insurgents w by their fate give
q warning to gil who may dream Of remedyng great
social evil by appeal 10 Bat The Of society
which such scheme be formed and carried oa Is
not the less threatening When few Papiss planned the
blowing up cf the English Parliament the chances Of
desperate but the showed that there exist
ed elements Of danger in the State. Nor can IL be
doubted that with skill and audacious leadership the
celored people Of Virginia would be capable OF inictng
terrible calamities on their masters. With men who
would set their lives the cast and who cared for
nothing provided liberty, or at least revenge,
gained, nsurrec would be truly formidable. The
blacks Of this part Of the Union instructed than
further South, where slave life Is round Of
toll; there are a great number OF mulattoes, many
free negroes, and good many poor whites,
Of whom might be expected to take part Ia any
outbreak All this population has, by contact with the
more civilized regions, acquired knowledge and feelings
which perhaps hardly exist in Alabama Texas. They
know enough 70 become disconented with their condition,
but not enough to feel the utter madness OF struggle
with the American people Our correspondent expresses
probably the common opinion when he that the plot
was Widespread and that the premature outbreak has
PROBABLY saved the country from deuge Of blood. Tho
insurgents easily believe thought that the seizure
Of agovernment establishment and the possession Of rifles
and cannon would encourage the whole population TO rise
against their masters Forty eight hours might have
been enough to make half the plantations in the State the
Of the ouest The isolated and unprepared
families country districts might have been set upon
by their maddened slaves and the whole system Of slave
holding been 80 shaken as TO necessate some plan Of
abolition.
This, at least to have been the design Of he
eaders That they could have expected conquer the
United States Executive in servile war and to vir
gina and Maryland into free States through victories
gained by rebeious negroes, seems out Of the question
America is not like one OF our own island colonies where
the negroes ounumber the whites many fold In the dis
Ticts where this outbreak took place the whites
probably superior in number TO the colored population
They all armed, and accustomed almost from child
hood to the of their weapons The circumst
which they are placed have given them aptitude for
something like mi itary organization and they have con-
nuay before their the necessity order
among the African race. We may be that after
the first surprise the white men in every Amer-
sures to crush rebellion, though probably not
enough to prevent the commission Of many
who organized this scheme Nothing bnt sckenng and
boctess slaughter could come of IL first the slaughter Of
white families by their slaves, and then the bloody
yenge OF the exasperated masters.
We will affect to indulge the hope that the
wcalths OF Virginia and Maryian wiOe moved by this
event to take into consideration the extinction OF slavery
Putting aside the fact that such outbreaks generally
the heart instead Of sofenpg it, and that the yoke s
likely to be pressed down more heavily than
fear 10 support the system Cot is produced in
vaser thar ever and the value Of negro labor
is continually rising The price Of negroes is nearly
double what was few years back for the increase by
breeding does not keep pace with the demand for tho
newly settled country AZ long as Virginia supplies tn,
owners keep firm grasp on ther human property.
From the London News, Nov. 81
II there must be negro nsurrection in tho United
likely than any other place TO be the Of IT,
the circumstances Of the present time It
there hope that the transition from slave free labor
might be accomplished In peaceful and orderly way. Up
to about quarter oi century ago the univsrsa sappos
than serrile ,cdr; and hs uds the dread aoich kept qt
leading citizens sho i they had stirred in time might
have accomplished the revolution in the labor market long
beore this There then risipgs Of
less consequence, in the slave States so frequently
that the average set down twelve per
year The fearful inswrection known by tho
name of the Southampton Massacre took pace in
1882, and this was till recently called the last negro
rising The abolition movement was instituted at that
tie the Of that humble beginning spread the
slave States, in the way that news about negro
interests does spread and from the moment when Garr
son understood to have dedicated himself to their
the negroes faciuy committed their affairs to his
hands, and he and his coaduors were non resstnts For
above twenty years, while the shareholders kept up their
alarms and cautions, suspcctng incenoarism, material
moral at every turn, the slaves rebeed
less This good service done by the abolition
sts another that the slaves better treated,
in proportion the attention Of the world directed
ward their case By degrees sackenng the
ubcbp yahp
rash practices adveDtured which bitterly
ed Of In their horror Of having anti slavery Presi
dent the person Of Fremont the Southern politicians
made speeches all the country, proving that his
election would doom slavery aud Southern institutions
altogether. These speeches were uttered n the hearing
Of enegroee who bang round all crowds and of course
every one Of them became worshpper OF Fremont, aui
spread his praise up and down all the rivers of the
interior This is universally admitted To have been the
of the socaed conspiracy OF 1856 which scared
whole communities ont of their wits There ceranly
a wide spread communication and sympathy. Whether
there actual conspiracy TO rise, before whites
drove the negroes TO it, remains a matter of dis
pute What Is certain is that along tse course of the
great rivers the negroes believed that their day
Of delverance had come and actea accor dinghy, and
that many died under the las and the gibbet
tyrs The strongest admonons to prudence have since
been promulgated among the whites; and the speeches
that have been listened TO by inqusve negroes have
been full Of assurances that slavery would endure
The constant discussion Of TIE tortc hoceer in
ecson ,cih rolics, is fact whtch tie negro Is
aJle nete and upon In former times slavery
Of itse like marriage, aud public worship and
magistrscy; and was talked about in the way
Of and defence than they. The modern
sops show that II called in question: and the prodgos
amount OF escape from slavery proves all mens
eyes that the whites nd difficulty in maintaining the
sttution.
Then here Is the new phase Of the persecution Of the
free negroes-et resented wherever there free
negroes and they are everywhere spite Of all efforts
To dsodge them While in the free States they hold
annual conventions to consider their political and social
condition. and arrange their RESISTANCE 10 plans Of cxpa
raiion and provide means and Inducements Tor the eic
va,on Of their class by means Of education and the ros