The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-11-22
British Impressions on the Harper's Ferry
Outbreak. ..r..a


reach from Louisiana, along the valley Of the Mississippi
to Canada the north westward to the Pacific Ocean,
The course which must eventually be adopted should the
two countries fail TO agree will doubt be to reer-as
regny Of the island the arbitration Of some Independent
sovereign perhaps the King Of the Begans the King OF
Hoand and, should this course be adopted, II is to
he hoped that the United States will retire from the
agreement when they find that the arbitration is not
altogether In their favor The people Of the United States
hare painful cause to look at home and give up
that policy Of aggression which year directs itself
then against Central America, and lastly against por
ton Of territory which, under any fair and natural inter
probation Of the treaty Of 1896 must be held to belong
Great Britain slave war, aided by aboitonists-the
capture of public armoryhe employment of the regu-
lar army and militia against the insurgents, though
one, in this country vis0 sooM apprehension
and alarm Such risings seldom succeed and the
Hay affords favorable precedent but their repression
s always accompanied by deeds Of cruelty and blood
shelby scenes Of rapine and oppresson-and from
these we would fan hope America may long be spared
From the Londen Times, Nov. 81
Lord Macaulay describes Frederick the Great with much
humor as fighting pitched battles with corrosive subli-
mate pills in one pocket and quantity of bad in
in which were to be decided the fortunes Of the whole
civilized world, was, according to Juvena pocket look
ing glass Sir Charles Napier defined the outfit OF good
officer on hard duty to consist Of razor, piece Of
soap and one clean shirt But in the New World
they manage these things better. The viatcum for
have commanded, in the United States, is something
very different, but quite as characteristic Of
poison
Of Frederick, the mirror Of Ohio, or the razor Of
Napier. few desperate men drew together,
and, with views Of which yet very imperrecty
informed seized upon armory Of the government stu
ate in remote and most picturesque region at the conu
ence Of two mighty rivers the confines of Maryland
and Virginia They seem to be provided neither with
numbers. We hear of concert between them
and the negroes Of the surrounding districts The place
which they have chosen for their operations not very
federal government at Washington. In all this
we see little proof of that care and elaboration
which might be expected In a movement which
has for It's object nothing less than the over
throw of the great American Unon as established by
ana sanctioned oy time; They only took one Precauon
people might have thought that, the projected rising Of
the negroes succeeded the emergencies Of would i'm
medatey supersede attempt at regulating the affairs
Of the insurrecton by means Of written constitution
and that in the much more probable event of failure the
law Of the conquerer would provide very efficiently for
the brief remainder of the lives Of the vanqushed There
is something groesque in the midst Of the Of
civil see the men who are struggling to let loose
sands Of negroes anJuvfated By i'll usage, and
tr1taissd By compulsory ignorance, undertaking such
they sought to let loose could be controlled 5v q
ew paragraphs BEGINNING with the rights Of and end
not be construed in any way to encourage over
throw Of any State government Of the general govern
ent of the United States and look TO dissolution of
the Union, but simply to amendment and repeal.
To overthrow the whole framework upon which, in the
Southern States Of America the fabric of society rests
place in the hands Of million OF exasperated slaves
is according to these visionares not civil servc war;
but simply moving amendment and repeating
however, that such an assembly the insur-
gents of Harper's Ferry contemplated calling to-
ge,her, would have required something more than
President and Vice President, something than d.
vision of government into executive legislative and judi
cial, and that martial law or the will of the General
would have been useful TO curb the unquiet spirits
which such crisis must call forth than constitution
based Congress consisting Of ten members elected by
n the e spr Of @
provisional government Of Tuscany have
the Atlantic and alghted with outstretched wings, the
banks of the Shenandoah and the Potomac Just the
Tuscan government has employed the brief leisure oo,oed
to organize Italy for defence IN proposing subjects for ntu
nSyshss 50 the leaders Of the black nsurres9n can ng
subject occupy their minds the of
their desperate enterprise than provisions that the treaty
Of peace which they doubt about to compel the
United States government to accept should be signed by
the President and Vice President and majority of the
Supreme Court the representatives Of the people, and the
general officers Or law that marriage relations should
be respected for the erection of schools and churches
and the proper observance of Sunday. These not
the words nor the topics that set mems blood fire. and
push them forward to confront numbers without
ing them, and dangers without regarding them The pro-
camation that calls to nation not guratvely but
literally ensaved must home hearts and pas
s0ns Of than these cold distractions this melancholy
pedantry of order civilization the midst Of fire and
slaughter We observe alusion in this strange docu-
ment, which would doubtless be keenly appreciated to
the necessity OF reunitng scattered families but can
not why the institution OF private property to be
abolished the proceeds Of the labor and plumber OF
the community formed into fund to be distributed
spanards found existing throughout the empire Of Peru
To Judge by the provisions of this extraordinary docu
ment, Me conduct Of revolution never fey into hands
Mr.. Brown and his friends had no conception
Of any manner Of CARRYING on public business
constitution Of the American States and supposed that
democratic assemblies supreme courts elective pres
dents and vice-presdents were machinery as inds-
pensable for war for peace We remark that while
they denounce the carrying Of concealed weapons they
distinctly declare that shall be lawful to carry weapons
openly, as il they supposed that fighting for their
lives and liberties would require distinct permission be-
fore they vcntured TO violate the law which obds slaves
from carrying arms.
These occasional outbreaks notpecuiar TO American
slavery but were the scourge of all the nations Of anti
guilty, and Of none SO much as Rome in the very
subject from which history willingly avers her face and
the outbreaks which from time to time have taken place
In America have been forgotten by the European public
as soon as they queed in torture and in blood But
each of these Instructions contemplate they may up
pear in numbers, in intelligence and in organization
standing people will well not neglect too long Tia.
security Of We and property ,chich s. after au the main
end and object Of eisi society, does mot ena least H. The
European Of the tymin the slave States Of america.
The white population can never forget either judges
as Legislators or propretors, that they are
small minority, scattered among large and bit
force the meaning Of the word security If they
lie down to they know not but they may BIO awoIe
yels Of the incendaries If they wander in the forest
they no confidence that the hand of the does
not await them behind every thcket Danger begetS
fear and fear cruelty and that cruelty again
danger. Strong Is our sympathy for the oppressed
race that tolls beneath the lash in the Southern States Of
America, we cannot bring ourselves to wish that
their bonds may be broken by experiment
80 frghtful as that which has once again been
tried and once again faled--the experiment or o
servile war There was time when tie best men in
America looked on slavery as merely a provisional
and temporary institution, and looked forward 70
the time when the bonds should drop from the
hands Of the African and the assertion Of the Declaration
Of Independence that all free and equal shoAd
seems 70 have passed by and the language Of the South
ern STAKEHOLDER rather that redon Is an eccepo
az msfitscn destined day BE- SWALLOWED up IN the more
sdtardI and humane rule Of slavery We cannot,
nereore be surprised to slch reasoners reminded
from time 70 time by warnings like that afforded by the
berry instruction how insecure Is the basis on
which the slavcowner builds and how dangerous is for
anauon which carries % vcnonous serpent In her bo