The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-12-09

IL The came hon. e. With an ulteror intsbuon ana pur
pose Of wrapping The whole community civil Of the
those bis household suppose say The person
v piar plotted this, with his hand
he hives several fellow beings should be extoad,
noozed, placed level with the heroes VI hui
maEy nay ussimated 20 the Savior Of mankind and al
lhs the effect u asotary individual impulse the
ripe fruit Of semauc agitation pursued the Soah
xed for yeaIs What Sir, should We feel think
ray such state Of tbngsY Should weigh every
phrase Of Indignant with critical accuracy
and wide murmurs with nice discrimination among
those whom ~e might believe however unJustiy TO b. al
recty or Indirectly In the
Mr. Chair man, those who look upon the existing excite
rent aa The South Fictitious or exirayagant have
fear formed very inadequate idea OF the If such
an attempt as that which was made at Hrpers Ferry was
intended 10 be- and would have been had !. proved
cessiu 70 want Of reflection on this point that We
must ascrbe the fact that any civilized man 10 his right
mind and still any Of intelligence and moral
discernment, In other respects, can be found 70 approve
VIM BRING home g as mnds IN S!s
conception, the real nature Of the undertaking, they
would be themselves amazed that they had ever given
and those bis seadss i associates az Of bis 10
grapher, Of his wretched wife, that the unhappy
years medi,a.ed general nsurrecsion in the South
ern States that he thought the time had now come
70 eject that the slaves were ready to rise and the
savehoding whites 70 join them, and both united
ready TO form new commonwealth OF which the cons
tuition was organized and the officers chosen. With this
for those whose rising calculated at Harpers Fcrry
he sezes the national arsenal where there was supply
OF arms hundred thousand men, and he intended
unable 10 maintain himself at once in The open country 70
retreat TO the mountains and from their Businesses
rass, parayze, and at length revoutionze the South
To talk Of the pixies and rifles not being intended
for offensive purposes, Is simply absurd. (Appasse)
The first act almost OF the party was TO shoot down
es and ma wbo ed a% ue
well say that the rifed ordnance Of Louis
Napoleon was intended only for self. defence 70 be
used only in the Austrans should undertake to
bis march. cloud applanse). No, sir, II was at
tempt TO do q scale what done in st. Domingo
in 1871 where the colced population was about eqna to
that Of Virginia; and II any would form distinct
idea what such operation is let him See it-not as
matter Of vague conception--a crude proect-in the
mind Of heated fanatic but 1t should In the sober
pages OF history that record the revolt that island the
midnight burnings the wholesale massacres, the merc
less ortares the denominations not TO be named by Chris
an lips In the hearing OF Christian ears-some Of which,
unutterably atrocious for the English language OF
necessity yelled in the obscuriy OF the Latin tongue Al
low TO read you few sentences from the historian Of
these events
In the itself, the general belief time was,
that the revolt was by means extensive but sud
ton on The plain that Of Mons Gaiie situated about
s a
possessed so many advantages that became eH
sns eooa fortune to say Il ct hsr1 ee"s ~ sgrs as
@ ssoy Of
ofhe Genera Assembly and being fully persuaded that The
determined repair hher encourage them oppdsng the
whh desired The few
accordingly but on approaching estate sarprss
=. tIS he
which they had recently Mpasd On stake NJ 0dsac bad
friend wbs had accompanied him, with most Of he solders
escaped By sh and conveyed he dreadful dnss
By hs time. ali Or os Of the white persons who bad been
s y, being forced
he torch The buildings and oaneaeds were here gel
on fre and the oonasraions which visible from
more shocking and reaecons more dismal than fancy can
paint or the powers Of man describe.
Such SIR as matter Of history, is servile insurrec
ton Now let take glance at the state Of things in
the Southern States members they with US In
the great republican confederacy Let consider
what sort Of population il is that some persons among
think 1t not only right and comnendabe, but in the
highest degree heroic santke God like, TO extend the
awful calamity which turned St. Domingo into heap OF
bloody ashes in 1891 There between three and four
millions the colored scattered through the South
s tonn aad yases snd n bodies on Isolated pn
tions in the house, the factory and the feid mingled to-
gether with the dominant in the various pursuits Of
millions, rightly recolect the numbers. Upon
this community, thus composed, It was the de-
insurrecton and TO bring on struggle which magni-
tude arocy and horror would have stood alone In the
history Of the world (Appausel And these eight or
fellow citizens entitled with us to the protection
of that compact Of government which recognizes their
sworn officer q tho Union o. OF the States bound By
his oath support Among them, sir, is fair proper
moral and religious lives and charactersyrtuous fathers
mothers and daughters, who would adorl
any station q society IN any % who read th
ter kneel the throne of the Cod forming cass
of from which have gone forth some Of the greatest
ington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Marshall These
are the men, the women, for whose bosom pixies
and rifles are manufactured in New England, TO be
placed in the haDos Of ignorant subject race supposed
most wrongfuly, as recent events have shown to be
ss an pe Sur % use e
in early life and more recently visited all the Southern
and Southwestern States with the exception Of Arkansas
and the country have had the privilege before crowded
and fvorng audiences to hold up the character Of the
father Of his country and to ncucate the blessings Of the
Union, in the precise terms In which have done 1t
here home and in the other portions Of the land
have been admitted to the confidence Of the domestic
ce and have there touching manifestations of
kindest feelings, by which that Circle in all its
members high and low, master and servant, can be
bound together and when contemplate the horrors that
would have cnsued had the tragedy which the cur
tain at Harpcrs Ferry been acted out, through at
its Of fire and sword, of lust and murder of
pine and desoation, to the FINAL catastrophe filed
with which words dojusce There could
of be but result and that well deserving the
thoughtful meditation OF those any such there be, who
think that the welfare of the coored could by
possibility be promoted by the success Of such move
ment, and who are willing to purchase that result by
costly sacrifice. The coored population Of St. Domingo
amounted to but little short Of half million. while the
whites amounted to only thirty thousand. The white
population Of the Southern ,s States States, alone, IN the
ratio Of two to one; in the Union at large in
the ratio Of to one, and if (Which Heaven aver
they should be brought into conflict could end only in
the determination Of the latter after Of for
which language is faint, and for which the lveest
fancy has adequate images Of horror Such being the
case some one may ask why does not the South orty
herself against the possible occurrence of such catastro
phe by doing away with the one great source from which
alone It spring. This is question easily asked, and
am that it is duty at the North 70 answer
it, but may observed that great and radical changes
in the framework Of society involving the relations Of
0f m no Of
an impatient philanthropy They can only be brought
about in the lapse Of time, by the steady opera
ton Of physical, economical, and moral causes.
Have those, who rebuke the South for the con-
tnuance Of slavery, considered that neither the
present generation the preceding Is responsible
for ts cxstencep The African slave trade prohibited
by Of Congress ftyone years ago. and many years
earlier by the separate Southern States The entire
coored population, with the exception perhaps, Of few
hundreds surrep6ously introduced is native to the soil
Their ancestors conveyed from Africa in the ships
Of Old England and New England. loud appause)
They number between three and four millions. Has
any person. Of any party opinion proposed in sober
earnest practical method Of wholesale emsncipationY
believe most persons in all parts Of the country Of
opinion that free labor is steadily gaining ground II
would in my Judgment have already prevailed in the
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