The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-12-01

be decided in few days
servIe InsurrectiOns, Past and Present-
Inc Projected Massacre NJ Ohsriest0n.
YIN another page we publish highly inter
estipg account of the projected midnight mas
sacre at Charleston, s. c., in the year 1872.
abridged from the official records Of the citv.
According to the confessions Of the actors h
the drama, most extensive conspiracy was or
ganized by the blacks to murder eyery white
man, woman and child in Charleston, and mot
to spare white skin alive" The plot had been
in existence at least for four years, and yet wss
not discovered by the authorities till within
eighteen days Of the intended carnage, at the
bare idea Of which humanity shudders. The
arrests numbered l3I. The rin1leaders were
tried, convicted and hanged. In all, thirty Eve
expiated their offence on the gallows. The de-
sign was, after capturing the arsenals and mar.
dering all the white inhabitants, to take an
the transportable property, to burn the city,
and, seixing all the ships in the harbor, to en-
bark for st. Domingo where an unexampled
massacre of whites had taken place thirty years
before. The conspirators calculated on assist
ance from ST. Domingo and the English. just
as at the present time, two agencies were em-
ployed to bring about this revolt-the one was
American party politics, and the other religious
fanaticism. The deludea wretches, perverting
the sacred volume, said God was with them,
and they must be victorious. The principal
conspirators were preachers and Jealous re-
| ligionists.
| AT that time no white leader appeared,
though they expected one. A black man, Dem
mark Vesey, was the chief organizer of the re-
volution, and no white men were implicated in
the trials as actively engaged in the revolt.
| But if no Northern John Brown was there,
it is equally certain that the same political agi-
tation in the North which instigated the late
insurrection at Harper's Ferry led to the dia-
bolical conspiracy at Charleston. 1t is in evil
dence that a speech of Rufus King, Senator
from New York, was the iDcendiary material
which kindled up the insurrectionary flames;
and now, after the lapse Of forty years, the in
0ammatory speech Of another Senator from
New York has acted as another revolutionary
frebrand, and resulted in the same catastr0-
phe; but this time not merely in conspiracy to
massacre, but in massacre ITSELF In the case
of Charleston no life was taken unless upon the
gallows. In the case of Harper's Ferry, the
overt acts of treason were committed; blood
was shed and q massacre was commenced,
which, had the strength of the traitors been
only equal to their will, would have spread all
over the South, and every State would have be-
come an aceldema-a field of blood. And now
third massacre, most fearful to contemplate,
is in preparation at the North. OF this we pub
lished the evidence yesterday. Hinton Rowan
Helpers book is endorsed by eixty eight mem
bers Of Congress- and by such men as the re-
publican Governor of this State, by exJudge
Peabody, by Police Commissioner Stranahan, by
James Kelly, Chairman of the New York Re-
publican State Committee, by Edgar Ketchum,
Chairman of the Opdyke or Republican
Mayoralty Convention, by Horace Greeley, who
plays the revolutionary organ of these men to
! the music required, from q slow march to the
! charge of battle. We published the secret
circular with the names attached, which accom-
panies the book as its endorsement to the aboli-
ton fanatics, but which is omitted from that
portion of the impression intended for the
general public. In this book the mask is
thrown of, and it is declared that no man can
be patriot who is not an abolitionist that
slavery must be throttled," and whether
peaceably or by Uiolence, and, ,choteuer conse-
quences may foLoao, the abolitionists are deter
mined to have it one way or another"
Here, then, is the irrepressible conflict" Of
MIR. Seward fully developed; and after the publ
cation ola work under such sanction, what could
be expected other than the events at Harper's.
Ferry? Mr. Seward, who, as appears from tho
yellow covers, has read itwith great attention.
gives this ipcendiary book special endorse
ment, pronouncing 1t "a work of great merit,
and logical in analysis" Rev. Theodore Parker
calls it an admirable work" Hon. Cassius NJ.
Clay says, ut is just such work as is needed
| in the present array Of political antagonisms"
Joshua K. Giddings tells us, at is manual for
the times, calculated to meet the popular demand
fer information upon the great question OF the
age" The New York Tribune rightly UNDER
stands the design of the book, when 1t says,
Fortunate indeed are the non slaveholding
whites that they have found such spokes-
man, one who utters no stammering, hesitating
nor uncertain sound" 1t is indeed but too plain
There is no uncertainty about it. The follow
ing motto on its title page truly indicates the
letter and spirit of the book
Countrymen sue for simple justice at your hands;
Naught else ask, nor less will have:
Act right, therefore, and yield my claim
Or BY the great God that made all things
IHfght, ill., from my bones my JlcsA Dc haeked
Nobody believes Greeley or mon like him
would thus fight; but they know how to drive
other men to slaughter. They are like the
Quaker, who said to dog against which he
had mortal antipathy, ~ will not kill thee.
but will give thee bad name" He called
the dog "bad dog" at first, and afterwards
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