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to sue the Board of Supervisors for the amount
due, and thus test the question as to their
rights in the matter. We shall have the ques-
ton decided whether they or we shall afiix the
price of labor performed by us.
The Supervisors, it is pretty well known, do
not stop at what may be called a shave upon
the public treasury occasionally, and it is mean
aud contemplate in them to descend to
swindliDg the printer. This Board, in fact is
just what Mayo Wood styles it in his mes
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| Negro Insurrections and Their Bloody
Rssulis-A. Instructive History for tho
| Abohttonisss.
| The instruction of John Brown at Harpers
| Ferry has attracted the attention Of the whole
world, and given rise to speculation and COM
went as to the result which a negro insurrec-
| ton in the Southern States would produce
upop the destinics of this country. In England
and France, and wherever the English tongue
| is spoken, the matter has been widely dis
cussed. Need we say that the enemies of the
| republic would rejoice to see such scheme as
| Browns consummated or that the friends of
this Union and Of republicanism would deplore
it as a direful calamity? There are great
| many well-meaning and really humane men in
the world who become agents of crime and
disaster through ignorance Of the consequences
! which must follow the initiatory steps of an
acrimonious political agitation; and Of this
class there are very many to be found in the
Northern and Eastern States, who would shrink
with horror from any participation in the reali
ties Of general uprising Of one race against
| another, yet who would foster such under
takings as that of Brown, through ignorance of
what negro instruction really is For the
Information of this class of men, and all others
| who are uninformed as to the character of the
| African race when aroused, exasperated and
| armed, we publish to-day full and most int
| resting history of negro instructions for the
| last two hundred years, embracing the shock
| ing affairs in st. Domingo, Jamaica, Barbados,
and those which occurred or were discovered
| in our own country-in New York, Charleston,
| in Virginia, Tennessee, Louisiana and Arkan-
sas. The ferocious and savage attributes of
the negro character are fearfuIly demonstrated
in the accounts of these instructions. In
every instance the plan designed was general
confagration an indiscrmnate massacre of all.
the white population, without regard to age or
sex, save in few instances, where the women
were to be spared for fate worse than death
at the hands Of the brutal negroes.
This terrible history establishes beyond con-
troversy the fact that the negro race, once
armed and aroused, are more merciless than
wild beasts that their actions are instigated by
the most fiendish passions, and that their origi-
nal savage nature is uncontrolled by partial
civilization. Atrocities and fortunes which
exceed the worst devices of savage tribes
marked the conduct of the negro insurgents in
| st. Domingo in the instruction of 1871. Their
| white victims were put to death in frightful
manner. As described by writer, their flesh
was torn off with red hot pincers, they were
| sawed asunder between planks, roasted before
| slow fire, or had their eyes wrenched out with
red hot corkscrews. In this Instruction two
thousand whites were thus murdered in two
months, a hundred and eighty sugar plantations
and nine hundred coffee and cotton plantations
were destroyed, and twelve hundred families
| reduced to poverty. Systematic poisoning of
the whites by the slaves, in their households,
was another plan adopted in st. Domingo, and
spread to such an extent over the island that
universal terror seized upon the whole white
population.
The scenes enacted by the negroes in Jamaica
and Barbados, at different periods, were not
| less horrible than those of St. Domingo, and it
| is remarkable that the instruction of 1916 in
Barbados was instigated by the speeches of the
abolitionists in the British Parliament Just as
the St. Domingo massacres were excited by the
| An,is deS Noirs, or French abolitionists of the
| National Assembly, and as the fanatical appeals
and incendary doctrines enunciated from the
halls of legislation, the lecture rooms and the
pulpits in this country, are exciting an insur-
rectionary spirit in our midst to-day, which
threatens to plunge the country into bloodshed
and disorder. In the attempted revolt in
Charleston in 1922, the speeches of Senator
King, Of New York, were cited by the negroes
as proof that they had friends in Congress
who would stand by them.
| In the negro instructions carried out or plan
| ned in New York in 174l, in Charleston in 1922,
in Virginia in 1881, and in Louisiana Tennes-
see and Arkansas in 1856, the example of St.
Domingo was to be closely followed-frst, the
dwellings were to be set on fire, and the whole
| white population then massacred, whereupon
plumber and rapine were to follow. Had these
instructions not been discovered there is no
doubt that the Southern States would have
witnessed the same scenes of horror which
characterized the brutal actions of the negroes
in St Domingo and Jamaica. Indeed, in the
rising of 1881 in the State of Virginia, the
acts Of atrocity actually committed are horri-
BILE to think Of Whole families were butchered
and their bodies thrown to the hogs for food
Ten poor children at school, together with
| their female teacher were saYagelY murdered