Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1860-04-27
THE REAL PERIL or SLAVERY.

In
The result Of John Browns effort @
shows plainly enough that there is no /
great danger that the slaves Of the South t
will be stirred up to mutiny and insur-
reciion by the efforts of white men. The {
real peril of the South lies in a quarter {
where it is not suspected. 1t is in the l
increasing physical superiority of the {
negroes. We we're impressed strongly
with this idea in reading an account of
rhe fire department of Savannah, Ga.
With only two exceptions the fire COM
paDies Of that city, thirteen in number, are
composed exclusively of negroes. Their
semi-annual parades are the great holi-
days of the year. When the fire alarm
is given they turn out with alacrity dress
ed in gay uniforms, and the companies
vie with each other for distinction in eff
cheney and promptness quite as much as
the white fire companies of our north
ern cities. When working at the brakes
they sing inspiring songs in their own
'nigger English like this:
'Flah done put out for sartin
XII, yah whoop!
Fiah burn um cotton bale dis Niger cotch um
Seven am de boys-Nines wurs as bockra,-
Ki hi-yah
Whar old Sambo now good for nuthin niggeri
Couldn't put the fab out nohow, YAH
D, Sevens am de fire-boys-
Put out de fab for sartin-
Save de cotton burning,
Ki ki-yah =
The white people of Savannah point
northerners with pride to these black
fremen as illustrating the cordial SYM
pathy and loyalty of the black race to-
wards the whites, and as showing the
little ground there is for fear from them.
But whittier does all this tend? 1t
is the universal testimony that the
whites Of the slave states are deteriora-
ting, in muscle as well as in moral force
of character, while the slaves by their
regular but not excessive labor, their
moderate and healthful diet, and their
necessary exclusion from enervatng
habits, are the real men Of muscle at the
South. Suppose a consciousness Of this
strength that slumbers in the peasant S
arm to get awakened in any way among
the negroes; suppose the slave states to
60 on with their mad policy of enslaving
the free blacks and so infusing into the
plantation gangs new element of dis.
satisfaction and revolt suppose some
black exborter at camp meetings TO fee
himself inspired o become another
Moses and lead bis people out by fire
and blood from the American Egypt
we start back appalled, by the terrible
possibility. And yet here lies the rea
peril of the SoGth--not in the circGla
ton of Helper books and anti-slavery
publications among the whites, but il
some sudden ouiburst of the enslavec
muscle against the overmastering mind.
The South has a continual dim an'
vague fear Of this catastrophe, but
seems to be blind TO the fact that it is
constantly increasing probability, an
that the peril is promoted by every ex
pedient resorted to increase the powe
Of the institution. Let the mad caps {
the South realize their dream of dis
union and southern republic, and thi
peril would be increased thousand folk
The blast of the trumpet that Shout
announce the dissolution of the Unio
would be the tocsin of instruction an
blood at the South. and the slavebolC
ers must then fight their own battle
against the muscle they have edueatet
-Sprinqfsld Republican.