Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1859-11-25
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BRITISH IMPRESSIONS ON THE
HARPRR'S PERRY RYoUTBREAK,

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Browns Constitution and Intended Gov
ernment-Slavery Venomous Serpent
in the Bosom Of the Nation Defence of
0errit Smith, Giddings and Fred Doug
lass, &c.
tFor-a TIE London Post (gorsrmmens ereo"J Hoe. ~
The Oregon question, when it was last discuss
ed. turned partly upon the limits Of the domin-
ions Of England and France intended to be fxed
by the treaty Of Utreoht-the United States claim.
ing the territory the successors of the French.
whose uoninions were then supposed To reach
FROM Louisiana, along tho valley oil tho MsBssip p
pi, to Canada on tho north and westward to the
Pacific Ocean. The course which must eventual
ly DO adopted, should the two countries fail to
agree. will no doubt be to reer the Maine boun-
dairy question was referred-the sovereignty,
Of the island to the arbitration of some
independent sovereign, Ierhaps tho kiag
Of the Belgians the King of llolland,
and. should this course be adopted, it il
TO be hoped thnt the United States will not retire
from the agreement when they find that tho arbi-
tratn s not altogether in their favor. The pco-
10 look Ut home and to give up that policy Of a9-
gression which one year directs itself
against Texas, next against Mexico, next
against Cuba, thon against Central America, and
lastly, against portion ol territory which. un-
der any fair and natural Interpretation of the
treaty Ol 1910, must DO ncll 10 Ueluut to 0Teht
Britain. A slave war, aided by abolitionists -
the capture Of public armory-the employment
of the regular nrmury and militia against the IN.
surgents, though successful n)w-dre symptoms
of state ofNtngs tohich no one, eren IN tbs
try, p,eW Wittom upm ehcnsoa and aidrm.--
Such risings seldom succeed. and the case Of Hay
ii affords no favorable precedent; but their rcpres-
sion is always accompanied by deeds OF cruelty
and bloodshel-by sceaes Of rapino and oppres-
sion-und from these we would fnin hope Anisri.
Gu mny long be spared.
[Fro,a tie London Times Nor. D.
Lord Macaulay describes Frederick the Grea, with
much humor, ,as fighting pitched battles with corro-
sive sublmate pills in one pocket and n quantity
Of bad verses in the other. The Emperor hos
equipment for civil war, in which were to be
decided the fortums Of the whole civilized worlu,
was, according to Juvenal apockct looking gnss
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
vtaitcum for civil, ,or rather aserve war, such rs
Spartacus might have commanded, in the United
Suites, is something very different, but quite rs
characteristic Of the land the peope,a the poison
and bad Of Frederick, tho mirror
of Otho, or the razor oi Napier. few
despe q men lew together, aud with views of
which we are as yet very imperfectly informed,
seized upon nrmory of the government situate
in and most. .pcturesqu" region mt the con-
nuencr of two mighty rivers the confines Of
MARYLAND and Nirginia. They seem to be provi-
ded neither with n,ms or numbers. We head
of no contract between them and the negroes of
the surrounding districts. The place which they
have chosen for their operations is not very dis
tant from the great city Of Baltimore the SO OF
the federal government at Washington. In ali
this we see little proof Of tho care aud deberaton
which might be expected in n movement which
has for its object nothing less than the overthrow
a IL. .k.1I .l,all
law and sanctioned by time. They only took one
precautions: they provided themselves with con
stitnton. Some people might have thought that
if the pro ected rising oi the negroes succeeded,
the emergencies Of war would Immediately supur-
sedc ATTY attempt at regulating the affairs oi the
the insurrecion hy means OF written constltu-
ton, and that, in tn" much more probable event
of fnilure the law of the conquerer would provide
very efficiently for the brief remainder Of the lives
of the vanquished. There Is something Er"csque
in tho midst of the terrors of civil war To see tho
men who arc struggling to let loose upon iieir
masters the passions OF hundreds Of thousands of
negroes infuriateI by i'll usage, and bruiu!;zed by
compulsory ignorancc, undertaking such IL task
with the idea that the turbulent elements which
they sought tn let lonoc could be controlled by
few paragraphs beginning with the rights ol man
and ending with n Geclaruli"n that the foregoing
articles should not be construed SO as in any way
to encourage the overthrow 1T any State go,ern-
ment or pt tie EpN'fhl government VI u DHilct
States md look tono dissolution "i tho Union, but
simply to au cndment mud repeal.
To overth,uw the Whole framework upon which
in the Southern Stntrs Of America, the fabric Of
society re>t- to place arms in tho hands "f IL mil
lion Of exr>pcratsI slaves, IL. according to these
visionnres not civil or scrvlle war, but simply
moving an amendment and repeating al obnox-
inus statute. We should hive thoHght however,
that such an assembly ns the insurgents Of llar-
pers Ferry contemplated calling together, would
have required something more than President
md Vice President, something more than IA dyi
sion of government int executive, legislative and
judicial. and that martial law, or the will Vt the
General would have been more useful tI curb tho
unouie. spirits which such crisis must call forth
than a constitution based on Congress consist
ing of ten members elected by universal suffrage
and Chief Justice and four Puisno Judges mp
y ,inted in the same manner. The spirit of the
provisional government Of Tuscany seems to have
crossed the Atlantic and alighted with outstretch
ell wings. on the banks of the Shenandoah and
Potomac. JUS. as the Tuscan government has
rmplnyed the brief leisure allowed it t. organize
Italy for defence III proposing subjects for stalu
ary and Offering prizes for essays on the art IF
draining narshos. 20 the leaders Of the black in
surrectinn can fnd no moro suitable sub oct 10 oc
cupy their minds the eve oi their desperate
terprise than provisions that the treaty Of prace
which they were no doubt about to compel tho
United States government To accept, should he
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 scho0ls and churches and the proper
observance of Sunday. These are not the words
nor the topics that set mems blood on fire, and
push then forward 10 confront numbers without
counting them. and dangers without regarding
them. The proclamation whicn calls to arms a
nation not fgurstively, but literally enslaved must
kka I'D af
than these cold distractions, this melancholy pc.
dantrx Of order and civilization in the midst of Ae