Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1859-11-25
LYNCHBURG FRIDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER e6 1852

extraordinary docamsn. the conduct OF revolu.
ton never fell into hands moro utterly unable to
direct il. II would seem that NJ. Brown and his
friends had no conception Of any manner Of carry.
ing on public business except that which thcy
were familiar with in the consultation of the Amer
ican States and supposed that democratic assem-
blies. supreme courts, and elective presidents and
vics-presidents were . machinery NJ indispensable
for war as for peace. We remark that while they
denounce the carrying Of concealed weapons they
distinctly declare thai it sballb lawful to carry
Weapons openly. a. II they supposed that men
fighting for their lives and liberties would require
distinct permission before thcy ventured to vio-
late the law which forbids slaves from carrying
arms,
These occasional outbreaks are not peculiar to
American slavery, but were tho scourgo of all tho
nations Of antiquit", ud as none 50 much IN Rome
in the very palmiest days ofthe Republic. SER
vile war Ia a subject from which history willingly
avers her face. and the outbreaks which from time
to timo have taken place In America have been
forgotten by tho European public ns coon ms they
were quelled in torture and In bl,od. But each
Of those instructions. contemplate as they may
appear in numbers, in intelligence and In organ-
xation, ia symptom Of u state IT things which n
wise aud understanding people will do we'll not to
neglect too long. That security Of life and prop.
erty which is. after all. the main end aud object Of
civil society does not exist--nt least in the Euro
pean sense of the torm--in the Slave States of
Amerea. Tho white population can never forget
either as Judges. Legislators or proprietors, that
they are II small minority scattered among large
and bitterly hostile majority. They never know
the full meaning of tho word security" II thcy
lie down To rot tbov know not but they may be
awoke u, midnight by tho light Of their blnzng
houses and the yells of tho incendiaries. If they
wander in the forest they foel no confidence TINT
the hard o( the assassin docs uvt await them be-
hind every thieket. bangor begeta fear, and tear
cruelty nnl TINT cruelty again inciea.es danger.
Strorg rs is our sympathy lor the oppressed rncc
that tolls beneath tho lash in tho Southern States
Of America, we cannot bring oursolyos to wish
that their bonds may he broken by an ok ermcnt
frghtful ns that which has once again been
tried. and once again fsied--tbo experiment ofa
servilc war There was time when tha best mon
in America looked IN slavery ns merely provi-
81 ,nnl and temporary institution, and looked for
vard to the time when tho bonds should drop from
the hands of tho African, anl the assertion Of tho
Declaration of Independence, that oil men are free
and equal shonld no longer be q mookery and
reproach' But that time seetne to have passed by.
and the language Of the Southern sh,,eholdcri is
now rather that freedom is an exceptional institu-
ton destined one day to be swnllowod up in tho
more natural and moro humane rule u slavery
We canuot. therefore, be surprised " see such
reasoners reminded from time to time by warnings
like that afforded by the Ilarpers Ferry insurrec-
ton how insecure is tho basis on WHICH tho slave
ner builds, aud how dangerous 1t is for n nation
"ulcu cntrics 40 PoNOnOus eerpont III MS hpsohi
be forever trifing with the possibility Of 70
reign war, tie first effect of which mu,t almost
necessarily be to the sleeping destroyer into
life and activity.
[fron tie Lpndon Star, NophI
This disailrrtion can scnrcclv he causo for sur
Prise whom il in remembered that Virginia wa,
tho scene Of Nat Turner'S negro insurrettrn III
1881, that proposals have recently heon nude in
Maryland for the wholesale deportation Of the free
negroes of that Stare, aud that tho contgny of
both the States 10 Pennsyl, ania hns undo their
slave population familiar with tho mysteries a.
the underground railroad, and has cuu.ed, them 10
take Ic tnur interest in til" land di freedom
which lies beyond their own bordcrs.
We deeply 1epl,ro this outbreak, nn! the m 'ro
50 because the pro slavery party hnyc already le-
gun to connect with il the names IF suth mca AZ
Gcrrit Smith, Joshna II. Giddinss and Fredericl.
Douglas. 1t is moro likely thnn not hat letter,
from these distinguished men lavc been fnnl il,
Browns possession. but it must 10 remembered
that that unfortunate individual had played
prominent pat in Kansas as leader o. tha heN
State party; AMI the aholitionioi' IF HE Nnrtl,
light freely enough write to him, aul even rct-
der him prcurnry ssstancc, without lirsiIg any
knowlcd-" "f the lnsurrcctonary schG"lGs wi.,clt
he INTENDED ln carry out ia Virr,in anl M.ry-
land. We think we may safely nsscrt that tho
correspondence in question had exclusive refer.
cnee to Kansas and perhaps +, the esrtpe "f in-
gticr slaves from Missouri, husiae-s III whict
Brown had been engaged no doubt with Northern
assistance, n measure bf rr'a'iatin upon tao
South fer fllr uutrag"- committed by thr b"rde'
rnitians ia Kansas. The antslayery party have
a..nin and again repndiated any attemtt 10 abos',
! slavery l'y violent nenns and they haye always
relied, and We hope always will rely, f,rihc sue
cess of their upnn the diffusion of SQUAD
&C nomio principles, The influence Of Christianity
and the ultimate wnkening of tho national rpI-
science.
lFron ne NaaclestSr Gud,diae, Nor b.
The flavel,olders If America may learn Mt tho
| mercy Of whut sort of movements tho peace ot
their homes and even their lives plnce by
tho institution which thoy ~ olr4tinaiely uphold,
Mon possessed Of no more knowledge. clearness o'
purpose, or influence than the ojncoctors III th =
ridiculous constitution. ar. rnalhed to raise
break Of formidable dimsn ,ions, by simply throS-
ing themselves with sufficient rcklessncss ON tho
exctabc feeling Of districts in which the anti-a-
very agitation has attained a certain height. A.
it is the mad attempt has not been suppressed
without an uInnunt Of civil bloodshed which much
exceeds anything If the kind that has been wit
| messed in the United Kingdom during tho tims
OF the present generation, and. had only little
less pronpttude been shown in dealing with il,
no ono can say how wide district would M, have
been the scene If tho iouiest crine-. The oeca-
sion surely presents a warnin, which cnly the
gros,ost lcial blindness can disregard.
SAD AFFAiR--Tw3 SIsrERs DaowNED.--Oa Sn'-
urdsy morning. last, says the Baltimore Ame,f-
can two young daughters Of Mr. James Cole. resi-
ding at No 295 Eastern avenue, near Wolfe street,
named Mary C. and Elizabeth, aged ID and II
years respectively, left their parants' house and