Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-08-28
Twenty-First District.
EXCITEMENT IN TEXAS.

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The Democratic papers are filed up
with the most extraVagant accounts Of
"slave insurrections" and "Abolition I"
conspiracies in that State. That there
have been incendiary fires in Texas, as
we'll as elsewhere, we think very proba-
BILE; but the Democracy are quite over
doing the thing when they charge the
Republicans with the crime. But an in
stance or two, from whatever cause
arising, afford the pretext for the forma-
tion of vigilance committees, and the
murder or banishment of all persons
suspected Of love of freedom. It is
we'll known that large part of the pop
ulation of Texas now consists of German,
and other free laborers, and the fact that
they will not go into the negro trade
alarms the Oligarehy lest they should
take steps eventually to rid themselves
of the curse altogether. Our readers
know that the ministers of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church have been
mobbed out of the State-their churches
broke up and the members outraged,
because the Church was supposed to be
opposed to slavery. Other ministers
have been beaten, maltreatcd, tarred and
feathered, and driven from. their homes
with brutality unequalled by the fe-
rocity Of the Druses in, Asia. A free
press, or the freedom of speech is no
more tolerated there than in the yerriest
Despotism in the world. =. .,.
While all this is going on on one side,
"incendiary' fires are said to have oc-
Cured on the other. Therefore the cry
is raised that the ':Abolitionists' are in
conspiracy to liberate the slaves; A
panic is raised and its consequences fol-
low. Every paper records the deliber-
ate murder of peaceable citizens by the
vigilance committees, ON the plea OF
being accessory to these burnings. The
number that have been hung and other
wise murdered by these organized mobs
is appalling, and still the internal work
goes on. And the miserable partizans
of these bandit murderers in the free
States are attempting to make capital by
course of reckless falsehood of which
very demons ought to be ashamed. The
latest report is that there are two thou
sand "Abolitionists' p in one county, in
citing the slaves to insurrection. The
thing has gone so far that some of the
better class of Texas papers are begin
ming to fear for the result, and are try
ing to check the ferocity of the fanati-
cism.. The Houston Republic, after re-
ferring to several fires, gives a far more
rational account of their origin than that
of an abolition plot. Itsays:
"By many these outrages are attrib-
uted to the fanaticism of Northern Abo-
l1tlon emlssarles, but the true cause ac1tt
doubtless be fond IN the aehipping Of an
elderly preacher some months since, al
Dallas, for some in,prudent language nude
use of IN a sermon, and the late outrages
are the results Of the vengeance Of the old
mans friends. We cannot and do not
believe it possible that any white man,
not actuated by more active motive
than mere, though mistaken, philan-
thropy could so far forget the dictates
of humanity as to be willing to untoose
these blood -hounds-for such the un-
bridled passions of negroes would doubt
less make them-upon almost defense
less women and children. We have a
little better opinion of humanity, though
not very exalted one, at best, than for
a moment to suppose that the suspicion
excited of Abolition incendiarism can be
well founded in fact At least, we trust
they have been greatly exaggerated, both
in detail and cause for general alarm. 2"