Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1860-06-15
VOL. 80, NO. "a.

make the proof lGreat applause. You need
not be told that pefsisiing in charge which one
does not know 10 be true, is simply malicious
| SANDER. EApplause. Some OF you generously
admit that no Republican designediy aided OF
encouraged the Harper's Ferry affair; but still
insist that our doctrines and declarations neces-
sarily lead 10 such results. We know we hold
| no doctrines and make no declarations which
were not held TO and made by our fathers who
framed the government under which we live
/ [Applause You never dealt fairly by US in re-
| atiou 10 this affair
EFFECTS OF THE INVASION ON LATE ELECTIONS
/ When il occurred, some important State elec-
| tons were near al baud, and you were in evil
dent glee with the belief that, by charging the
blame upon us you could get an advantage of
us in those elections. The elections came. and
your expectations were not quite fulfilled
| [Laughter] You did not sweep New York,
| anelNew Jersey, and Wisconsin, and Minnesota
precisely like fire sweeps over the prairie in high
wind [Laughier.l You are still drumming al
this idea. Go on with ii. If you think YOU can
| by slandering woman, make her love you, or
| by viifying man make him vote with you, go
on and try it. [Boistefous laughter and profong-
ed applause. Every Republican man knew
/ that, as to himself, al least your charge was
SANDER, and he was not much inclined By il 10
cast his vote in your favor.
| Republican doctrines and declarations are ac-
accompanied with continual protest against
any interference whatever with your slaves. or
with yon about your slaves Surely this does
not encourage them to revolt. True, we do. in
common with our fathers who framed tie gov
ernment under which we live declare our be-
| lief that slavery is very wrong-[ applause but
| the slaves do not hear declare even this for
| anything we say or do, the slaves would scarce
| e know there is Republican party | believe
| they would not, IN fact, generally know If, but
/ Tor your misrepresentation of u.s. in their hear
/ ing. In your political contests among YOUR
selves, each faction charged the other with SYM
! paihy for the Black Republicans: and then to
] give point 10 the charge, define Black Repuhli-
caHism to simply be insnrrection, blood and
thunder among the slaves. lBoisterous laughter
/ and applause.
SLAVE INsuRREcTIoNs
! Slave instructions are no mere common Than
| they were before the Republican party was or
ganized. What induced The Southampton iusur-
reetiur. twenty years ago in which al least three
times as many lives were lost as at Harpers Fer
| ryt You can scarcely stretch your very elastic
fancy 10 The conclusion that southampton was
got up by Black Republicanism. fLaughfer l.
| In the present state of things in The United
States, dc no, think general or even very
| extensive slave insurection, is possible The
indispensable conceri Of action cannot be attain
ed. The slaves have means OF rapid COM
munlcation; nor can incen diary free men, black
t or white, supply it. The explosive materials ara
everywhere IN parcels, but there neither are nor
can be supplied, the indispensable connecting
/ trains.
| Much is said by Southern people about tbe
affection of slaves for their masters and mistress
ses, and part of it, at least, is true. A plot
for aD uprising could scarcely be devised and
communicated to twenty individuals before some
one of them, to save The life of favorite mas
ter or mistress, would divulge it. This is the
rule; and the slave revolution 10 Hayti was nor
an exception to it, but case occurring under
peculiar circumstances. The gun powder plot
| of British history, though not connected with
slaves, was more in point In this case only
about twenty were admitted 20 the secret, aud
yet one of them, in his anxiety to save friend.
betrayed tie plot to that friend and by conse-
quence aveTted the calamity. Occasional pnis-
cuiDgs from the kitchen, and open or stealthy
assassinatiens in the field, and local revolts
extending to score or so, will continue 10 oc-
cur as the natural results of slavery; bat no gen.
eral insurrection of slaves, as think can hap
pen in this country for long time. Whoever
much fears, or much hopes, for such an event,
will be alike disappointed.
VIEWS OF THOMAS JEFFERSON.
In the language of Mr.. jefferson. uttered
many years ago, sit is still in our power to
direct the process of emancipation and depor-
tation, peaceably, and in such slow degrees, as
that evil will wear off insensby and their
places be, part passu, filled up by free white
laboreTs. tLoud applause.l II. on the con-
trary, 1t is left to force itself on, human nature
must shudder at the prospect held up.' Mr..
Jefferson did not mean to say, nor do !, that
the power of emancipation is in the Federal
Government He spoke of Virginia and, as
to the power of emancipation, | speak of the
lslaveholding States only. The Federal Gov
erEment, however, as we insist, has the power
| of restraining the extension of the institution
! the power to insure that slave nsurreotion
shall neger occur on any American soil which
Is now free from slavery. (Applause.) John
Browns effort was peculiar. liz was not
slave insurrectiop. II was attempt by white
men to get up revolt among slaves, in which
the slaves refused TO participate. In fact, il
was So absurd that the slaves, with all their ig-
norance, saw plainly enough that il could not
succeed. That affair, in its philosophy, cores
ponds with lhe many attempts, related III hisio-
4 ~, al the ASSASSINATION OF kings and emperors.
An enthusiast broods over The oppression OF
people till he fances himself commissioned by
heaven to liberate them. He ventures the al
tempt, which ends in little else than his own ex-
ecution. Orsni's attempt Louis Napoleon
and Jonn Browns aitemp, al Harper's Ferry
We're, IN their philosophy, precisely the same
1 The eageTness TO cast blame on old Ergland in
the one case aud on New England in HE other,
does not disproYe the sameness OF the two
things lApplause And how much would il
avail you, if you could, by the use OF John
Brown, Helpers book, and the like, break up the
! Republican organizations Hnrnan action can be
modified TO some exien., hul human nature can
mol be changed.