Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-10-28
Tho Panic Aspect Of slave Rovolt,

Thc funic Aspect OF slave kcVoltss .
The Evening Post very appositeIy re-
marks--"One aspect of these slave revolts
which has often presented itself to our minds,
has been impressed upon us with renewed
force by the circumstances of the narpers
Ferry stampede 1t is the panic by which they
must ever be accompanied No matter how
slight the spark, the apparent combustion is
terrific. Old Brown, with his score Of follow
ers, has set the entire commonwealth in com.
motion, and arrested the gaze Of the world
The same number of men, with the same means,
anywhere else, might have been suppressed by
the ordinary police Of village. In a slave
community they require the interposition Of
Governors, Presidents, marines, militia and
mobs. The fancied danger trauscends The real
danger. A sp,o otre always stalks behind the
ircendiary, Of enormous ard shadowy proper
tons, not one spectre only, but troop ef spec
tres; such caravan as Freiligrath describes in
his poem of the desert, when the ssnd.wreaths
seem to twrl into fearful shapes, and legons
OF dusky warriors come pressing onward in
terrible array The pilgrim tremLes, and the
very horses grow frantic, because they fear the
bursting Of the Simeon"
The Baltimore American, after describing
the removal of Brown and the other prisoners
from Harpors Ferry 10 Charlestown by railroad,
under charge Of a squad of marines and accom-
panied by Gov. Wise, furnishes striking illus
tration Of the truth of the remarks quoted as
follows
RUMoRED ATTAcK on FARM HoUsR-After
the removal of the prisoners the excitement
somewhat abated, though every man on the
street, and many boys, were armed with loaded
rifles. In the midst Of this calm a large, heavy
man, named Jesse Moore, with a broad brim
hat, and gun in hand, mounted on white horse
came driving over the bridge at furious rate,
and passed up through the town, shouting with
a stentorian voice-"To arms! to arms! to arms!
They are numbering tho women and childrcn!'
On he went, shouting at every step, until be
reached the house Of Mr.. DaDgeiiield, at which
Col Lee was stopping.
BY this time the whole town was in commo.
tion, and he announced to Col Lte the start
ling intelligence that be had heard the shouts
and screams of the women at Garretps, the
farm adjoining his, in Pleasant Valley, mingled
with reports of reyolvers and rifles, and that
utnulJ ltuu was BoluB On luefe he was s lLls
fied. He bad also seen the negroes of Mr. Gar
rett, who is the largest stakeholder in the Val
ley flying to the mountains, some of whom
had p sscd through his barnyard. Notwith
standing bis vehement earnestness, Col Loe
doubted the whole story and Ijut 1t down as one
of the many hundred that had been floating
through the townduring the day The people
however proceeded to ann, and rifles were
handed out of the amory in great numbers tc
those who had no weapons. In the midst of TIN
turmoil, the whole population Of Sandy Hook
men, women and children, some Of them with
out hats or bonnets, came pouring over the
: bridge, having run a mile and quarter at full
speed, leaving their houses tenantless. 1t ap
peared that Mr.. Moore, as be passed through thi.
settlement, had also given the alarm, which had
spread through the Surrounding country, ant
there could not have been less than two hun
dred OF these excited people rushing breathlcs
towards the town
This proved to be an entirely groundles
! alarm