Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-10-28

The Near York ErcAj54g Post. thus replies
to the incehdiary rawlings of the Douglas organ
at Washington. which basely attempts 10 make
political capital by charging that the Republi
cans are accountable for the late outbreak at
Harper's Ferry. and makes the silly assertion
that the Demonstration by Brown and his
handful of deluded followers is q the most
alarming and daring iusurrection-dry demon
~stration that has ever been made the United
States" Says the Post .
1t is altogether an error to represent this as
the most daring instruction that has taken
place in the United States. The Southampton
movement in 1881, which originated with Nat
Turner. "a slave preacher. which was concerted
among the slaves themselves, and which WIS
only suppressed after the murder in cold blood.
of some fifty or sixty white persons, was a far
I more formidable manifestation of discomfort
and ability. Again the revolt IN Tennessee IN
/ 1857 the ringlcaders Of which evinced so much
determination, and the ramifcations of whose
| plots were supposed to extend not only over
that State, but into Arkansas and Louisiana,
assumed more fearful proportions than this
| Virginia stampede. Those outbreaks were
spontaneous movements, of the serville class,
but this one was chiefly stimulated from the
outside, by a few frenzied men who conceived
they could best wreak their vengeance on the
Shareholders in that way.
When the States proceeds TO ascribe the ag-
itation to the prevalence of Republicanism, it
suffers its passion to betray it into Stiffness
? m D..ulI:o,,- 1,uo a1-or oo,noalaJ ar aou0-
tefanced violence, eitt er in respect to Slavery
or any other subject, but they have resisted it
/ and rebuked it on all occasions, and with all
their might. Those lawless schemes and deeds
which have disgraced the nation for some years
past have not been their work. 1t was not
they who invited the Missouri marauders into
Kansas TO outrage and butcher innocent set
tiers. 1t was not they who perpetrated the
sack of Lawrence, burning the hotels. destroy
ing the printing presses, and shooting the wo-
men and children. Nor have the Republicans
sustained the plans of the fillibuster Walker in
his attempts to land bodies ofarmed cut-throats
upon the shores of a peaceful and ~unoffending
nation to plumber its property, murder its citi-
zens and o%verturn its political government
Neither have they endeavored to produce. an
IDN dSIoD VI tIc lSTflloTN VI 0ICAiCO " AltC
States troops in order to stir up civil war in a
sister Republic and seize her provinces. Much
less have they recommended the forcible seizure
of the island of Cuba as a justifable and neces-
sary part of our public policy. .
The States is a Journal that has throughout
supported these proceedings, and Ossawatomie
Brown is. only a disciple of its own school
He has thought it just as right and proper to
invade Virginia as it was for the States and IFS
party to invade Kansas. Nicaragua, Mexico,
or Cuba. His reasonings have been probably
the same. A great evil, in his opinion, exists
in Virginia; it is his manifest destiny" to
abate it and. following the examples that
have been set him, he undertakes to abate it
with fire and sword. Mad as the act was, and
deplorable as the consequences of it might have
been. it proceeded from the same atrocious
principles which dictate Kansas forays, Cen
trail American filibusterism and Cuba inva-
sions. We defy the champions ofthose schemes
to show the least difference in the several cases.
We call upon them to allege a single reason in
Justification of their measures which Brown
might not with equal propriety allege in be-
half of his. If lie is an incendiary, so are they;
if his plot was diabolieal, so were their plots !;
and the more atrocious they make his conduct
appear, the more they expose the atrcity o
their own conduct