Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1859-11-04
Chr Star ano Gbronifle,
MONDAY. OCT. 81. 1859.
LET US THINK A LITTLE.

Ihe attempt of a score Oh lniatuatsu
persons at Harper's Ferry to combat and
overthrow the National and State Govern
ments, is nothing SO very strange. We
need not 90 back to the "horrors Of st.
Domingo" or other West India Islands,
or to other parts of the world, in past GEN.
turies, nor need we recount the alarms
and agonies caused by Slavery before our
Revolutionary War-collsions Of Despot-
ism with Liberty, as woful and horrible to
the enslaver as to the enslaved. We will
commence with the close Of the Revolu-
tion, and revive a memory Of some of the
real, alarming rebellious, Of responsible
men, not all caused by Slavery, but some
by other alleged or real evils.
Shay's InsurreCtiOn,
In New England, about 1885, at one
time numbered some T,oo thousand men
in arms. 1t was suppressed, after much
alarm, and with considerable address.
IThs, of course, was all owing to the
Black Republican party. albeit, the party
did Mt then exist
The Whfskcy InsurrcCtiOn,
In 1892 3, extending nearly fifty miles
around Pit.sburg in every direction, en-
braced, it is estimated, .Seven thousand
fighting -"shrieking, not for Liberty,
nor for Niggers, but for Free Liquors
An open rebellion against the General
Government was organized-her officers
we're ma.treated, banished, tarred and fea-
thered-their houses burned-men were
shot, and mortally wounded-regular sic
ges we're lad-the U. S. Mail was robbed
public property was appropriated" or
stolen-and every evil thing was done
that mad whiskey could suggest. The in
sureeuts deliberately shot dead the vener-
able Major M'Farland, an officer in the
Revolutionary War, while be was bearing
q flag of truce! Gen. Washington, with
an army of $1,000 men, took the field,
and suppressed the rebellion, which cov-
cred several months. Some Of the guilty
leaders fled, but others were tried and con-
victed, yet we believe no one was finally
executed. This, also, must be charged
to the fanatics, Greedy, Fremont & Co.,
even though they had not yet been born !
No matter for that-charge it to them !
some fools will believe it
John Fries Rebellion
Broke out in 1899, when some thirty men
in Lehigh and adjoining counties Of Pcnn'a
were tried for repeated, forcible and sue
cessful resistance to U. s. officers enforcing
q direct tax. Fries was convicted of trea-
son, and sentenced to be hung, but was
pardoned by John Adams, then Presi-
dent. Others were condemned to milder
punishments, which they suffered. One
of the most active persons convicted, was
Jacob Eyerman, "a German preacher. There
is no doubt but Beccber, Kalloch, Chez
yer and other "political parsons" of our
day, we're remotely the instigators of
Fries and Eyerman's operations, even if
they did not appear in public until thirty
years afterwards Lay it to Beecher-he
can stand it
The southampton Massacre.
In the Summer of 1881, in the South
Eastern part Of Virginia, slave named
Ma, Turner, with no aid from or commu-
nication with the whites, planned and ex-
ecuted an uprising which spread universal
aud ng-continued terror through all
Shvedom. He claimed Gas Brown does)
to act with Divine authority-but, being
more sane than Brown is, he planned with
greater sagacity, and hundreds or thou
sands of slaves flew to his standard, accor.
ding to previous arrangements. His ca
reer was brief, but bloody, and we think
it cost so or 100 human lives.
Virginia, soon after, held Convention,
to amend her Constitution. Then, Eman.
cipatiou was powerfully urged, and strong
er or more eloquent dcnuncations of Sla-
very we're never uttered than in that Con-
veution. 1t failed by small majority:
but Southampton and Nat Turner are
names that still make stout hearts quail,
and bright checks blanch with fear. Be-
youd all cavil, Nat Turner got his idea of .
the 'irrepressible conflict" from Stewards
Rochester speech, although the latter was I
only published % years afterwards! How
ever, for political effect, We will allege that q
twas Seward who caused i'll !