Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-09-15
Tbe Antt 9Ioprrp BlloIe.
the Ohio State journal,
EMBARRASSMENTS OF SALVATION IN
TIE SOUTH.


the following, among other things to the Journal
of Commerce. from Vicksburg Mississippi;
Our papers are teeming with accounts of the
havoc of another John Brown raid on the border
counties of Texas. Aboitionists have been there
in the character of Methodist preachers, teachers,
&C., and instgated general insurreclion among
several hundred negroes, They had planned mat
tiers for a most bloody and fatal catastrophe
Firearms of all sorts; arsenic to be pat in wells
for poisoning the people, and means for setting
fire to the whole town at once were detected, but
not until five towns had been burned, and great
mischief done. One woman has been hung for
distributing arsenic to be put in cstorns and wells.
And one or two preachers have been hung for aid
ing aud melting to revolt If things 90 on at this
rate, man suspected Of Anti-Sayery proclivities
will be hung shot like dog; fate they court,
it would seem. Southern people will be driven to
desperation at this rate, and invoking France or
England, with Russia, will put the cotton inter-
ests under their protection Dissolution Of the
Union is inevitable, with Ahoi;ionism in the
cendant at Washington. Here lce are trying 10
lead tie negroes to Christ and Hearea, whue those
incendiarieS lead them to the gallo,r5.'
This is the worst picture of the melancholy state
of things iu Texas, which we have yet seen; and
coming from the pen Of clergyman we are obli-
ged to look upon it with entire credit. 1t would
be a sort of heresy to hint at that exaggeraton of
terror, which in the memorable John Brown cam
paign transfgured at one time Cincinnati repor-
ter, and at another peaceful COW, into invading
hosts and far be it from 20 allude to the inGe-
nious gentleman of La Mancha, who 5eheld the
A. G n.,nlyo &C
sheep. We do not mock now that the fear of
the Texans has come. We take it for granted
that their peril real their furious alright,
or their hcadlong vengeance which hangs women
anl preachers, and finds disguised and ravenng
wolves in the folds OF religion, We can under
stand how, with that domestic institution Of which
the ties are only less sacred and tens der than those
that bind together parents and children, and bro
theirs and sisters, their danger is Imminent. 1t
frequently happens III families that incendiary
teaching and the distribution Of firearms of all
sorts, and different poisons, set the members
against each other, and result in fratrcidal strife
We cannot expect the domestic institution to be
superior to like mischivous influences; and we
should spare no execrattt in cHaracerzing the
misguided clergymen and ladies who incito the
contented and happy slave to instruction.
Bad, as is the stirring up of unpleNslnness in
families, there appear to be such tremendous
and eternal consequences to that line of conduct,
as follow the instigation of servilo revolt. With
an impressive earuestness, the godly man whom
we have quoted, declares: Here VIC are trying to
lead the negroes to Christ and uoavon, while these
inceudaries lead them to the ga.lows.'
There are few things more ediIying than the
contemp plation of the happy slave as he is known
to exist on the Southern plantation. lie is com
monty a large, well-proportioned negro, rolling in
fatnesa, the happy father Of half-a.dozon plump
and roguish little negroes. His cottage is neatly
and even sumptuously furnished; he has his gar
den plat an his pigs and poultry. He goes better
clad il the cast-of apparel Of his MASTER than
many of our white farmers at the North, and on
Sunday and other hoydays he appears resplen'
dent in black broad-coth, and wearing that gold
watch and chain, which an indulgent owner has
bestowed upon him. No cares molest him; and
when the Northern visitor Commonly a weak
minded female a mild gospeller,) asks him in
the presence of his master, whether he would like
to be free? lie Ieplies-'No, sah! frequently ad
ding, You don't ketoh dis nigga
Such, we say is the seductive picture of South
ern slavery which we have had so frequently pre-
sented to us by writer's in the New York Observer
and other papers equally reliable. To this fortu-
nate and contented being-fat and in good condi-
tion-comes the Yankee incendiary, assuming now
the guse of Methodist minister and now the guile
full form of a woman. lie holds in one hand the
deadly rifle and in the other the cup of cold poison.
He tells the slave of all the hardships of freedom
and climate in the North, and the deluded darkey,
enamoured of the horrors Of liberty, seizes the
instruments of doath, and promptly administers
their contents to that kind good master, who has
been to him as father and mother, brother and Sis
ter, wife and children, all rolled into one, and
holding tho price of those blood relations in his
pocket.
Up to this time the misguided slave has had per-
haps stated preaching of the Gospel and the
union between himself and his wife has been sane
toned ty ceremonies as divine and sacred as
those which attend the cohabitation of the cattle
on the plantation. Bot having listened to the
syren voice of the incendary he is torn away
from all tender and humanzing influences, He is
lost wretch long before he is led to the gallows
and when once he is hanged, what chance is there
that he shall 60 to Heaven? II is true that in the
case of some murderers there is well-graduated
system OF repentance, conversion and hnal redmp-
tion but it is quite impossible to apply this sys-
tenn to slave who is even suspected of insurrec-
tion, There is not time for it, and he does not
deserve it's benefits lie is given over to perdition
at once. For him the rope here, the fire hereafter.
Away with him into the outer darkness, amidst
the weeping and wailing.
It may be that this smacks little of blasphemy,
but 1t is the interpreted language of the reverend
correspondent OF the Journal Of Commerce. We
do not blame him. lie is driven to the use of
rank terms in indicating the difficulties which