Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1859-12-13


meroiess torturcs the nominations not 70 be ma
med By Christian lips in the hearing OF Christian
cars-some of which, too unutterably atrocious
for the English Language, ARE Of necessity veiled IN
the obsourity of tho Latin tongue. Allow mo TO
read you q few sentences from the historian OF
those events:
"In the town itself the belieffor some tims was,
that the revolt was by on means an extensive one,
but sudden and partial insurrection only. The
largest sugar plantation on the plain was that OF
Mons. Gaiiifst, situated about eight milcs from
the town. the negroes belonging 70 which had
always been treated with such kindness and lib
erality. and possessed many advantages, that ID
became y proverbial expression among the lower
white people, In speaking Of any mans good for
tune, to say, " est heureur CONNIE un negre de
Gdinfat The 10 a. happy ~ one OF M. dsllifets
negroes). NJ Odeus, an attorney or agent for, this
plantation, was a member ofths General Assembly,
and being fully persuaded that the negroes belong
ing to il would remain firm in their obedience,
determined to repair ththor 70 encourage thom in
opposing tho insurgents; to which end he desired
tho assistance Of soldiers from the town guard.
which was granted. lilo proceeded accordingly,
but on approaching the estate, to his surprise no
found oil tho negroes in arms on the side Of tho
rebels, and. horrid to tell their standard was tho
body of white infant which they had recently
impaled on a stake Mr.. Odeluo had advanced
too far to retreat undiscovered, and both he and
friend who had accompanied him, with most OF tho
soldiers. were killed without morcy. Twoor three
only Of tho ratro! escaped by flight. and conveyed
the dreadful tidings to the inhabitants Of tho town.
by this time, all or most Of the white persons
who had been found on tho several plantations be-
ing mnssaored or forced to seek their safety In
flight, the rufhans exchanged tho sword for the
torch. The buildings mud canshelds wero every
where set on fire tho confagrntions which were
visible from tho town in n thousand different quar-
ters, furnished a prospect moro shocking and re-
nectons more dismal than fancy can paint or the
powers Of man describe"
Such, sir, as Q matter Of history is q servls In
surrcction. Now, let us take glance at tho state
of things in the Southern States comembers a.
they are with US In tho great Republican Cenfed-
eracy. Let us consider over what sort Of popu-
laion it is that persons among think it not
only right and CONNIE mendable, but in tho highest
degree heroic, saint-likc God-like. to extend the
awful calamity which turned st. Domingo into
heap of bloody ashes in 1871. There are between
tine and four millions Of tho colorod scatter
ell through tho Southern and Southwestern States,
in small groups, in cities, town, villages, and in
larger bodies on insulated plantations; in the house
tho factory. and the field; mingled together with
the dominant race in tho various pursuits Of
liie--the latter amounting. in the aggregate. 70
eight or nine mlions,ir rightly rocollcot the num-
bors. Upon this community, thus composed II
was the design of Brown to let loose the hell
hounds Of q sorvile insurreotion, and to bring on
q struggle which for magnitude atrocity, and hor-
ror would hnvc stood alone in tho history of tho
world l0reat applauses.) And those eight or
nine millions. against whom this frightfu war was
loved. our follow citizcns entitled with us TO
the protection of that compact of government which
recognizes their relation to tho colored race--a
compact which every sworn officer Of the Union, or
ofthe States, is bound by his oath to support. A
moDg them sir, is @ fair proportion Of men and wo-
men of education and culture-of moral and reli-
glous lives and character-virtuous fathers, moth
crs, sons and daughters, persons who would adorn
any station OF society. in any country-msn who
read the samo hjble that we do. and, in tho name
Of tho same Master, knce Mt the same throne of
tho same God, forming class of men from which
hnve gone forth some of tho greatest and purest
characters which adorn our history-W ashi ngton
Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Marshall. These are
tho men, and the women, for whose bosom pixies
and rifles are manufactured in New England, to
bc placed in the hands of an ignorant subject race
supposed, most wrongfnly as recent events have
shown, to be waiting only for an opportunity to
them. Applause Sir, | have on three or
four different occasions in early life and more re-
Gently. visited oil tho Southern and Southwestern
States, with the exception Of Arkansas and Ala
bama. have enjoyed the hospitality OF tho city
and country; have had the privilege before crow
ded and favoring audiences to hold up the charac-
ter of tho father Of his country, and to nculcate
the blessing OF the Union in the same precise terms
in which have done it, here. at home, and in the
other portion of the land. ! have been admitted
to the confidence Of the domestic circle aud have
seen their touching manifestations of the kindest
feelings, by which that circle In all its members
high and low, master and servant can be bound
together; and whom contemplate the horrors that
would have ensued had the tragedy On which the
curtain rose at uarper's Ferry bccn acted out
through oil its scene Of fire and sword of lust and
murder, of rapine and dosolation to the final cas-
tro ohe, arr filed with emotions to which no
words can do justice. There could Of course be
huf md thak,e oil 1. Al
ful meditation Of those, if any such there DO, who
think that the welfare of the colored race could by
any possibility be promoted by the success of such
a movement and who willing 10 purchase
that result by so costly sacrifice. The colored
population OF st. Domingo amounted to but little
short Of half million, while the whites amount
ed to only thirty thousand. The white population
of the Southern States alono, in the aggregate out
numbers the colored in the ratio of two to one: in
the Union at large in tho ratio Of s, ven to one and
(which heaven avert they should be brought
into conflict, it could end only in the extermina-
ton of the latter after scenes of woe, for which
language is too faint, and for which the iveliest
fancy has no adequate images of horror.
such being the case, some one may why ask,
does not the South ortify herself against the DOS
ible occurrence Of such catastrophe, by doing
away with the one great source from which alone
1t can springf This is q question easily asked,
and am not aware that 1t 10 our duty at the
North to answer it; but it may be observed that
great and radical changes in tho framework of
society, involving the relations Of twelve millions
OF men, will not wait on tho bidding of an impa-
tient philanthophy. They can only be brought
aboutin the lapse Of time BY the steady operation
of physical, economical. and moral causes. Have
those, who rebuke the South for the continuance
Of slavery, considered that neither the present
generation nor the preceding one is responsible
for it's existence The African slave tradG was
prohibited by act of Congress ty-one years ago,
and many years earlier by the separate Southern