The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-01-14
Moro Martyrs OF Northern Incendlarisa-
The Beginning OF tho Dnd.


Moro Martyrs OF Northern Incendlarisn-
The Beginning OF tho Nnd.
The Northern inceDdiary prints are oontina-
ally publishing every act of violence at the
South against antislavery euissAries, or those
who are suspected of abolitionism, and thay
dress up and exaggerate those outrages win
the view Of exasperating the North against ~
South, but are unwittingly accomplishing .
very different object A day or two ago We TO
printed from the 7'ib,ne--the leading organ Of
Northern incendiarism-a terrible account q
the sunerings of an abolition martyr, or pseado
martyr; and to day we repubish three articles
from the inoendiary journals-the Tribune, thA
Independent and the Euening Post-giving an
account Of the maltreatment Of another victim
Of the anti-slavery agitation-oneJ James Power.
an Irish stonecntter at Columbia, South Caro-
lima, who admitted he was an aboiitionist, and
was rather free with his tongue about slavery,
particularly when he was drunk. Under the
excitement of the times he was treated to coat
of tar and feathers and sent back to New York.
where be reported his case at the principal
abolition shops in this city-the last refugees on
earth to which he would resort if he had any
sense, for these ipcendiary establishments are
the cause of his misiortunes. 1t appears from
the New York correspondence Of q Charleston
paper which We publish elsewhere, that the
exiles from the South, probably including
Power, exhibit everywhere, as beggars hawk
their sores, the weals on their persons and spots
of tar, which they preserve as mementos Of
pi rtv rrnu in ~
freedom.
In this connection we may refer to another case
which recently occurred in the district of VIII
liamsburg, South Carolina, whence two North
ern teachers named Hamilton and Dodd, were
banished because they were suspected of aboli-
ton incendiarism owing to an unjust prejudice
excited against them by the editor of local
paper, who has been charged with personal and
vindictive motives. One of these men (Mr.
Hamiiton) is from Pennsy lvania, and was en-
ployed as public teacher in the Williamsburg
district two years ago. He was fond of writing
letters to the newspapers, and sent Que to the
Kingstree Star, which was not on the subject Of
slavery, but which led to quarrel and a fight
with the editor, who thereupon thought proper
to denounce Hamilton as an emissary of the
abolitionists. Some Of the patrons of tho
school were family connections of the editor,
and they withdrew their support. A meeting
was called, and a vigilance committee were
directed to call on Hamilton, and
another teacher from the North named Dodd
and warn them to leave in three days. This
was in the latter part of November. Another
meeting was held-a very excited one--when
opposition was offered to the forcible ex-
pulsion of these men, particularly by the slave
holders of the place, who believed them to be
innocent. The result was compromise-tha
they should be allowed to remain till their en-
gagoments were ended, in the latter end Of De-
cember, and then depart
Upon this state of facts the abolitionist jour
mails at the North invented lying story that
the Shareholders expelled the school teachers,
and that the non shareholders resisted them,
and that Z" to preserve for time the peace Of
the district, and to avoid the horrors of civil
war;" the abolition teachers were allowed to
remain till their engagements were terminated.
Now, the truth is just the reverse Of this. 1t
was the non ,slaveholding white population who
insisted On sending them away, on the ground
that, Though nothing definite was known Of
their abolition or insurrectionary sentiments,
they acere from the North. and therefore necessarily
n6ued Nth doctrines hostile TO Southern institu-
tons" Such is the fruit of Northern incendiar-
ism and the endorsement of John Brown and
Hinton Rowan Helper at the North.
But who were the friends of the guiltless
Hamilton and Dodd? The shareholders, who
not only attended the meeting to defend them,
but have since come out in q card in tho
Charleston papers to defend themselves against
a charge Of leniency to abolitionists. In this
card they say that the whole population, to q
man, were agreed about banishing abolitionists,
and the only difference of opinion was as to
whether Hamilton and Dodd really were aboli-
! tionists or not The signers Of the card--H. u.
Shaw. S. J. Bradley, E. p. Bradley, J. A. Cor
| don, d. Z. Gordon, W. &. Gordon, J. W. Cor
| don, J. Watson, j. A. Salters, W. X. Lane and
J. c. Bradley maintained that they were limo
cent, and therefore ought not to be driven
away. So that the shareholders in this district
are more liberal to the North than are the other
whites; and so it is all over the Southern
| States.
Helper and other incendiaries labor to show
! that the white non.saveholding population Of
the South are on the verge of revolution against
the planters. and would tomorrow join the
| Northern fanatics of the John Brown school,
and such slaves as might conspire with them,
for the overthrow of slavery by insurrection
and civil war. These men contradict them
selves, inasmuch as the shareholders are, or
rather were in 1850, according to Helpers sta
tistics, only 347 ,525, whereas the rest of the
white population amounted to 1856, 952-thst
is. the shareholders numbered a little more than
a third of million, while those who held no