The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-09-06

will be represented there from every quarter Of
the Union, and in point Of numbers, enthusiasm
and earnestness, it win excel any OF the great
revolutionary demonstrations which Europe mas
witnessed in its stormiest days.
Abolition O~trages In the slave states-
Mr.. Sow ards Position.
As our readers have been made aware,
from time to time, during the last two
months. the State Of Texas has been the
scene of various serious disturbances. There
have been rumors Of widespread conspi-
racies among the slaves; Of secret meetings
convened at midnight by white men, with a
view to the melting Of servile insurrectons; Of
numerous incendiary fires, and, by conse-
quence, widespread alarm among the citizens
Latterly these rumors have taken more tangi-
BILE form The Hourisbing town Of Henderson
has been burned to the ground, having been
set on fire in several places by negroes and
their white friends The same hands have poi
soned the wells and cattle. There can be no
doubt as to the identity Of the authors of these
outrages. Black and white men were taken 10
the act of firing buildings in Henderson, and
hung without ceremony Negroes have been
arrested with strychnine, furnished by white
scoundrels, In their possession. The people Of
Texas lie down to sleep with fear and trem-
bling, not knowing that their lives will be safe
till the dawn Of the next morning.
It is urdey these circumstances that we find
Mr.. Seward, q Senator Of the United States,
making the following comparison in his Detroit
speech
Virginia and Texas are thrown into panic even nov
by the appearance the pcion OF handful 81
sn ws1n cs
treason, eighty years ago.
This attempted parallel is as absurd as it is
mendacious. The war Of the Revolution was
an open, honest conflict, the result Of politi-
cal necessity, which eventuated in the separa-
ton of the colonies from the mother country
The colonists were forewarned, and therefore
forearmed. The British troops were surround
ed by our scouts, and their every movement
was known long before they arrived at any
point towards which their arms were directed.
How different in the case Of Virginia! How ut
terly dissimilar the position Of Texas! In Vir-
GINA, John Brown made q sudden raid upon q
small and peaceable community, shot down uu-
armed citizens in cold blood, took people out of
their beds at midnight, and did bis best to in
cite the slaves to arise and slay their masters.
How far the Brown conspiracy extended, who
were its real leaders, to what extent the servile
population sympathized with the old mans trea-
sonable designs, were questions of the most
vital importance to every man, wo-
man and child in Virginia, and the
mystery by which their solution was sur
rounded, as well as the audiences with
which they were sprung upon thinly scattered
population, naturally produced temporary
panic. That sentiment which makes man fear
for the lives of bis wife aud children cannot
be called cowardice. Is effect, on the contra
~, is to ircite him to brave deeds and heroic
sacrifices.
The case of Texas is worse than that Of vir-
ginia. Texas is border State, and h troubled
with all the diseases incident to infantile COM
munities, and several more which grow out Of
its peculiar position and surroundings. On one
side the Texans are menaced by rowing bands
of predatory Mexicans; on the other they are
in constant danger from hostile Indians. Now
II appears that they have been harboring white
traitors within their own borders, and that they
are surrounded with scoundrels who stop
:, A : asns, however vile and cowardly, to &C
eomn,I.b their nm, -oees Let Mr.. Seward bring
the case nearer home. Would lie not be alarm
ed II he should hear, while be Is expoundIng
the doctrines Of the black republican party
in the West, that q number Of persons were
lettering about Auburn, poisoning the cattle,
the wells and springs upon the estates Of Mr..
Seward and bis neighborss that incendiaries
had set fire TO the town and nearly destroyed 1t
altogether! and that such was the panic among
the people that the women aud children were in
fear Of their lives every moment Of the day and
night
No; the parallel given US BY Mr.. Seward Is
most unfortunate one for him. To compare
our Revolutionary sires with sneaking, lying
aboliilonjsts. who tamper with the servants,
apply the incendiary's torch or play the
cowardly role Of the poisoner, Is an insult to
the memory Of the former As for the lat
Ter, the hemp ~ grown and twisted ready Tor
their necks. And we now point TO the recent
occurrences In Texas as well n those in vir-
ginia, AZ the fruit Of the theories Of the black
republican party practically carried into effect.
II Is Mr.. Stewards "irrepresible conflict"
which Is now going on In The Lone Star State.
VIII the conservative masses Of the Central
States permit this conflict 70 extend oil over
the South They can arrest It BY defeating
Lincoln. VIII they do it,
THE News FROM HoSDunAs.-By telegraph
from New Orleans we have eight days later news
from Truxillo, the scene Of Walkers last raid
In Central America. From the tenor Of the
news Il would seem probable that the gray
eyed man. has found his destiny. The schooner
Toucey LEFT Truxillo on the 23d uit, at
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