Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-03-10
THE REAL PERIL OF SLAVERY.

The result Of John Browns effort shows plainly
enough that there is 70 great danger that the
slaves Of the South will be stirred up TO mutiny
and Instruction by the efforts of white men.
The real peril of the South lies in q quarter where
it is not suspected. 1t is in the increasing rhysi-
cal superiority of the negroes. We we're impress
sed strongly with this idea in reading On account
of the fire department of Savannah, Ga. With
only two exec ptions, the FIRE companies Of that
city, thirteen in number, are composed exclusively
Of negroes. Their semi-annual parades ure the
great holidays If the year. When the fire alarm
is given, they turn out with alacrity, dressed in
gay uniforms, and the compabies vie with each
other for distinction in efficiency and Eromptness
quite as much as the white fire companies of our
N.rthorn cities. When working ct the brakes
English like this
"Fiah done put out for s%artain
XII, yah, wboop
Fiah burn UNI cotton balo dis niger Cotch UNI
Seven am de boys-Nines wurs as bockra-
Ki-hi-yah
Whar old Sambo now? good for nothin Niger
Couldn't put de fab out nohow, yah
o, Sevens am de fre-boys-
Put out the fab for sartain-
Save de cotton burning,
Ki-ki-yah !"
The white people Of Savannah point Northern
es with pride to those black fremen as ~illustrat-
ing the cordial sympathy and loyalty Of the
black race towards the whites, and as showing the
little ground there is for fear from them.
Blu. whi.her does al this tend Z 1t is the uni.
versal testimony that the whites of the slave
States are detorioratipg, 10 muscle as we'll as in
moral force OF character, while the slaves, by their
regular but not excessive labor, their moderate
and bealthrul dict, and their necessary exclusion
from enervating habits, are the real men of muscle
at the South. Suppose o consciousness Of this
strength that slumbers in the peasants arm" to
get awakened in any way among the negroes I;
suppose the slave States to 60 on with their mad
policy Of enslaviDg the free blacks and so infusing
into the plantation gangs a new element Of dissat-
~isfaction and revolt suppose some black exhor-
ter at camp meetings to feel himself inspired to
become another Moses and lead his people out by
fire and blood from the American Egypt-we start
back appalled, at the terrible possibility. And
yet here lies the real peril Of the South-not in
she circulation Of Helper Books and anti.slaverv
publications among the whites, but in some sud
don outburst Of the enslaved muscle against the
over-mastering mind.
The south has q continued dim and vague fear
of this catastrophe, but it seems to be blind to the
fact that it is a constantly increasing probability,
and that the peril is promoted by every e~xpedien;
resorted to to increase the power of the institution.
Let the mad-caps of the South realize their dream
of disuuion and q Southern republic, and this
peril would be increased a thousand fold The
blast of the trumpet that should announce the dis.
solution of the Union would be the .Oosin o finsur
rectiOn and blood at the South, and the slave.
holders must then fight their own battles againsi
the muscle they have educated. Springfield Re
publican.