The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-12-22
FaIlaeieS.

In all the Northern and English newspapers
which treat of affairs in the South, we find q
disposition to exaggerate the difncultles
arising from the necessity of keeping In sub
lection the slave population OF this quarter OF
the country. 1t is, of course viewed in diff
ferent lights, according to the disposition of
the writer but by all, even by the President
of the United States, We are represented "a
reposing upon mine of gunpowder. To our
friends in the North and in England we would
saw give yourselves no apprehension upon
that head. To our enemies we would venture
to suggest that they are reckoning without
their host In expecting aid from such quarter
We will venture to say. that the system of
slavery In the Southern States of this Union
has presented fewer cases of riot, insubordi-
nation and instruction, from its foundation
to the present day, and has been the parent of
less bloodshed, than any other system of labor
that ever existed the same length of time
We believe that more lives were lost in the
single instruction of Southampton, dives of
masters we mean,) than in all the other slave
risings that were ever attempted put together
and the lives lost Ia that case did not amount
to sixty. 1t Is impossible TO conceive any thing
more hopeless Than the success of a slave re-
bellion, in any part of the South, and the
slaves know this as we'll as their masters
Even the proclamation of freedom, made by
royal Governor, backed by fleet and army,
20 all slaves who would rise in the cause of
GEORGE Ill, failed to produce a single case,
syen OF mutiny. A single riot in manufac-
turing town in Great Britain has often occa-
stoned more bl0odshed than all the slave in
surreetions that ever took place in the South
ern States OF this Union.
Our enemies represent US az living In q state
Of constant terror from this cause. Nothing
was ever farther from the truth. Timd per-
sons there are, undoubtedly among the slave
holders, who are afraid of everything. But
they are rare exceptions. The great body of
the Shareholders pass their time in as much
tranquility as any other class of persons
whatever. They do not fear the negroes, be-
cause they treat them we'll because they
know that the negroes are too we'll aware Of
the folly Of attempting what must end in their
own inevitable destruction, and because, with
very few exceptions, they are perfectly con-
tented with their lot
Another fallacy INDUCED in by the class OF
Northern men who draw their ideas of the
South from HELPER's book, is, that the white
men Of the South who own no negroes would
gladly see the slaves emanci pa ted. Now the
non-sIaveholders, strange as 1t may seem to
others, who are most jealous OF Northern in
reference with the negroes. They hate aboli-
tionism and abolitonists far more than the
areat Shareholders. There are several reasons
for this. In the first place, every man OF them
looks forward to the day when he may become
a slaveho older himself Secondly, every one of
them is connected in some way or other with
persons who own slaves. Thirdly, they have
been bred up among slaves and are gener-
ally conservative in their views. FourthIy,
they know that IL the negroes were emancipa-
ted this would be no country for the white
man, and that while the rich could get away,
they would be compelled to live among them.
Much stress ID laid by HELPER upon the
fact that there are only $4,000 shareholders
old and yong, male and female. He forgets
that every one OF these has numerous connec-
Iona. He oyerlooks the $50 900 oyerseers who |
derive their maintenance from slavery, and |
VINO, never having been accustomed to man |
nai labor, would be like 20 many fish out OF |
wafer were slavery abolished. He forgets |
tnAt these are All men in the prime of exist |
enee, men OF bone and muscIs-mep of spirit |
and energy-an immense army of themselves,
3So strong. Give 10 each of these men a |
wife and three children, and you will find at |
once nearly two millions interested in sla. |
very, and dependent upon II, from this source |
alone. HELPER overlooked all this, and the |
followers Of HELPER continually overlook 1t |
when they calculate upon finding the nom |
siaveholdsrs favorable TO their schemes.
Ths New York Times sports another fallacy |
win great persistency. 1t is trying TO prove |
that the State Of Massaeh usetts lie worth |
more than ali the cotton States, and says that |
Lowell alone produces more than South Ca
Ioiina, and Philadelphia more than Il dozen |
south Oaroiinas rolled into one. This il the |
0ta tale OF ths belly and the limbs over again. |
Whsi would Lowell or Philadeiphia be IL the |
COTTON STATES We're struck out of existence to- |
morfowf |
n I.ynn, Commonweaith Attorney OF Giles
couaiy, Va, died q few days since.