Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-08-09

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yate malice and revenge have had a great
| deal to do with these Outbreaks aud that
these persons were excited BY the failure of
more open Abolition projects.
A few months since, a Methodist confer
ence was held, at one of the towns since
burnt, which ayowed anti-slavery sentiments
of the widest and most dangerous character,
| assuming i: to be the duty of the Methodist
| clergy 10 preach against the Institution, and
TO teach slaves the right of revolt, if that be
| necessary 10 freedom. Very properly, the
| people. whose peace was threatened by such
| policy, purged themselves of such men,
/ compelling them to leave the State. 1t is
not improbable, nor is it in opposition to
what has been experienced in other cities,
under somewhat similar circumstances, that
| some OF those expelled actuated by a tiend-
lsh maIIgnitY OF spirit. returned by stealth,
and planned to wreak their vengeance upon
the offending communities. Proof, however,
| mas not yet been educed to fix the crime on
| any one of them. The whole matter is
| shrouded III mystery. Extraordinary coinci-
| denceS. and the confessions of certain negro
lncendlarIes, however, creating n general
conviction OF the existence of design and con-
spiracy, including the original ideas of ser
vile lnsurrection, with plan of retaliation
by widespread ruin.
Previous to the fire in Dallas the papers
tell US three men, named Clack, were arrested
In Chappell Hill, Texas, as Abolitionists-
who were convicted of having confessed to
De Abolltlonlsts-whO declared that three
thousand AbolitiOnists lived in Texas. and
who had been seen to take negroes privately
INTO their rooms. On the Sd of July, five
days before the fires, these men were ordered
to leave the State
The Austin State Gazette, of the 2Sth July.
names the following towns as set on fire, or
as being places where attempts at incendia-
rism were made on the 9Th inst: Dallas
Denton, Anstin, village in Cas- county,
Spring Hill. and Sulphur Springs.
An incendiary was seen, though not ar
rested, making an attempt to fire the town of
Tyler on the Sth ult, and several fires doing
but little damage. occurred in various places
on the 2lst ult Since the Sth. the people of
the counties so aSSailed have established COM
mittees of safety and organized efficient pa
trolls, without bringing the crimes committed
home to any individual, so far as reported by
the Texas papers.
AT Fort Orth it was discovered that fifty |
SIX shooters had been distributed to negroes |
The agent of the distribution was detected |
and treated as the prompter ola servile insur-
rectlon, was instantly hung
we select these as signs of the great excite |
ment in Texas, and some of the facts which |
nave transplred to justify it. They are |
nough to create apprehension, to demand |
inquiry. and to justify every sort of precau-
ton. But they ought to be dealt with in a !
spirit of justice. and of thorough and Impair |
tial inquiry, before taking summary Justice |
or lnfiicting the merited punishment. They |
show how much evil may be done on an IN
protected frontier, by the spirit of Abolition
ism, without the remotest prospect of effect /
ing anything but mischief, and should serve
Tor cautions to every conservative man in
every part OF the country, against the dan
gerous handling of sectional questions, which |
provokes and encourages such attempts. and |
which would justify the most thorough, con-
dign and merciless punisEment.-.E o. Ptca-
yttHe.