Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1860-08-07
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NEGRO INsURRECTION
IN TEeXASi
GREAT EXCITEMENT!
Il EXCITEMENTl


fFfom tlie Cincinnah Commercial
Houston, Texas, July 30
Ems CoN-The universal State Of Texas il
in blaze Of the widest excitement Nothing
is talked Of but niggers and nigger insurrec-
tons You will have received, ere this reach.
~ you, TIE particulars If fhe disastrous fires
IN Northern 7tras, and the probdbts com
piicfty of white men, knowing the pronencss
Of Southern sentiment TO suspect abolition in
terferencc but subsequent srents hare CON
fymed them beyond tie possibility qf douJt
Large numbers Of negroes have been arrest
ed, aud all Of them told, some voluntarily and
some under the iash, the same story The
negroes were cromined secretly and separ-
ofeiy by the c0D,mitfees SO that here seds no
possibility Of collision Letters received in
this city yesterday, give the details Of the plot
at Waxahochie, iehich plgce wds only sdred
from ne fate Of Dallas by q negro runner
being sent 10 inform The conspirofors there
that the plot had been discorered at Dallas
1t is not apprehended that the trouble extends
so far south as this place, though signs If IN
surrectiOR are reported on tie Brdzos, about
twenty-five or thirty miles from here.
Rnmors of hanging are rife, and public
meetings are being held all over the State
Ii is probable that all Northern men who can
not show a clean record and legitimate bust
ness in the State will be summarily dealt with
In the excitement consequent upon this horr-
BILE conspiracy, il is possible that innocent per-
sons will suffer. The genuine Anh-Slayery
fanatic, however, bears about him, in all cor
ditions, certain unmistakeRble marks by which
his recognition is generally easy, and the peo-
pie of Texas nre too keenly alive TO their own
interests TO interfere with Northern men in the
pursuit Of legitimate business, who, while be-
lieying that slnyery is not exactly the best in
stitution in the world, still haveno desire to
meddlc with it, or 20 thrust their sentiments
in the face ofpublic opinion.
Whatever opinions we may have imbibed as
20 abstract rights, / do not see hop the peopie
Of Terds ran do otherwise than ereicise n
strict supervision orer the actions and opiR-
ions Of Northern men icithiR their borders
II may seem strange TO a citizen of Ohio that
he cannot be allowed the same freedom in the
expression of his sentiments in Texas that
citizen of Texas would take in Ohio; but let
any such person pass q few weeks in the vicin-
ity ofa slave insurrection, and he will readily
comprehend why it is so, and should be So
The citizens Of slave community live in a
vast powder magazine, which is liable at any
moment tc be ignited maliciously or accident
ally, and blow them to the devil In cieic Of
the prospect Of midnight sky gioping ,citb
the red 6yM of' f'bmning dtceiings the breeze
burdened ,cith the shreiks men murdered in
their beds, their 'cires and daughters rioia-
ted and all the coHcomitdnt horrors Of a SER
riie iasUJTection,it behooyes them to exercise
that eternal vigilance which, with them, is the
price not only of liberty, but Of existence
tself How it will all end, God only knows