New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-10-23
THE TROUBLES IN TEXAS.
To the Editor eT The ~ Y Tyibuas

To the ES;to, Of The ~ Y Tyi5uae.
SIR: The Times and other New York journals are
giving great credit TO the RI nors ofthe Abolition plot Ia
Texas. 1t might be well to look at probabilities and
facts little. II is represented that through three o.
four scores of counties there plans and po for
burning houses, freeing negroes. murderhg men, AMI
ravlshlDg women, not few. Mole ychame Is found
sid to be- in the bande slaves than has ever bsen i'm
ported into the State since it made State. And in
all cases 1t was TO be put into the wells and the food
Arms and ammunition without limit are fouud In their
hands welllad trains for firing houses placed for
long distances Abolition letters intercepted ia the
mails and more commonly found on the roads revealing
the terrible things Negroes whipped till they
confess that some unknown white persons have "a n
pered with them. And white men who canno. show
" Free papers" are hung upon the nearest tree, or
rotey ordered 10 leave the State. Judge Lynch hangs
his victims and afterward inquiries as 10 their guilt
This is certainly not quiet desirable state OF
thpgs II is not favorable 10 peace here. IL s not
credable TO neghbors abroad 10 suppose they are
planning to throsts and let loose our negroes.
Query-Is most time that OF this strychnne
should have found its way into some well or loaf OF
bread-or that one of those concealed guns should have
been founder that some one man some where should
have been attacked-or some one woman driven on
Really, one would think that in two fu months 1T Is
so long since the discoveries commenced and hey are
going yeti, a territory of thousands Of milee,
ore well might have been poisoned, one man shot,
1t is quite strange that s the hanging and ootng and
whipping ia confined to the AboiioDists and negroes
But it is There is not one exception yet. Some
buildings have been burned of that in conrse) but
nothing more absolutely nothing. Not q slave any
where has cut his masters throat, carried off his
young Mistress even tried TO escape himself Is it
not time TO begin TO look for fruits of all this
great, and perfect preparation Do, gentlemen,
let have case, if it ia only pretended one, where
somebody has suffered beside negro, Yankee school
master, or a preacher
But hav MT there been buildings burned-whole
towns, in fact And not many plots for burning
other buildings reported trains laid torches found &c
Certainly there plenty OF such reports. In last,
one half are true most of our houses we'll
laid train that may be fired at any moment. And
really there have been some towns and buildings
burned. But the wonder is why none OF the strych'
nine of the guns and daegers, were used at the
SINE time-wby of the whites were killed, and
none Of the negroes even tried to escape The won
der not lesseDed any by the fact that weeks
after the most serious fires were all over before their
cause was known even suspected. The very trst
fire. the most serious one of all, that of Dallas, was
published everywhere, and help invoked for its VIC
Tins days and weeks before the Abolition feature OF it
was thought Of One cannot he'll asking why the
Abotionss and kept 60 quiet 80 long with the
strycbnne in their pockets the in their arters
and their masters walking about without suspicion.
They certainly were very naughty 10 burn the
houses If they did; but they really deserve some
credit for keeping the srychnne, aud pistols and dag
GERS 60 SAFE Somehow doubts they are quite 80
boodthirsty after all.
Seriously, now; there is small excitement here,
and il merits explanations:
|. About one.haf of it's the result of fear. When
epidemic visits your city, you know many sick;
many die from fear. So whenever aud wherever, IN
slave country, the cry Of "insurrecon" is raised,
most everybody is alarmed. 1t may be true and, ii
true, when and where the blow will fall s all In the
dark. Hence there is soon a panic This fear you,
who are accustomed to hire and pay for your labor
and trust your employees, can not folly comprehend.
Among those who take the body and the labor too,
." instruction" "aigger-riStRg," "rerOh," are a
4" dreadful sound" in their ears. This, in fact ex-
plains half Of all the excitement in Texas to-day.
1t is the logical mot the CHRONOLOGICAL autecedent Of
all the rest.
1t is worthy of remark too, that it is the "poor
whites who suffer most from this. IL is they who 60
without meals, and keep patrol all night, while the
masters eat their food and take their sleep quietly.
They are satisfied with shooting ministers az sight,
chasing of teachers, and hanging an occasional negro
that bslopgs 10 some minor absent planter and In
crying up the poor whites to keep watch and ward
III. One-quarter of the excitement is hatred of preach
ers, ana teachers, and negroes. These all stand
about par unless the two first slaveholdsrs aud
they have a sort Of innate hatred' of them all. IL
s not in human nature not 10 haze those we inure and
abuse. SOY you will notice all the victims OF this
element without any exception, of one another
of these classes, aud of the last only such have
masters present to them from the halter Whip
ping and threatening are generous. Iney don't cost
much as hanging. A free negro's life would not
be worth the scratch of pen. The lives Of the slaves
of resident and wealthy planters, as safe as ever
they were.
Ill. Oneeehth may be put to the credit Of politics
When the Harpers Ferry affair occurred, and a, other
times, your Northern merchants and nervous have
gone Into spasms over the Union, the loss OF South
ern trade, &C. &C., they have begged the Dsnocra-
cy l"saye the mark 70 preserve the Union-to keep
the town psupers frou seeding from the town. They
want 10 defeat Lincoln now. they want 20 elect
BIeckinridge. They need the help Of the uyh-
faces" very much. TEey need j. Gors than ever be-
fcre for TO tell the truth, not all agreed among
ourselves They mus louder than ever before
See If we don't keep it up till the Presidential election
See il we don't discover plots 70 be exe:u ed alf
new poison 10 be put in the wells that day, rs. in
tin 70 spread over the North by Nov. g. You must
not blame for wishing 10 get votes thus. Youwoud
do as much.
W Another eighth of the excite nent is made by the
thieves aud rObbere, Of whom we have our share.
When you have fire or celebration IN NsS'fork
they use the occasion 10 ply their trade 80 they do
here This really explains every hre no, accidental
from first TO as-he real and the attempted Ones
II Is for the interest of this class D perpstuats the
element They will do so as long as they can make 1t
Y This does not leave much for real Abolition
incendarisnp does it? Well know Of no process tbit
can make ore of thing than the sum OF s paris lt
nsv be that in some localities there sboald Do soma
char We In the relative proportions Of the causes. Ba
beyoId thsse different from thee, no calsss have
brcn shown. JuSIUs.
Naeogdoche' Texas, Oct. 5, 1850.
come hand In is letter from Rosk Coaniy Ia which is
a,ed whether the outbreak be a. the
site siecion In ATsus or e. the pe'd.a,a sesaoa ~
othrise, jus. expected After No' I'VE will rear You
gently IS sucking dove"
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