The semi-weekly mountain Democrat., 1860-09-26
Abolition Outrages In Texas.

ing. News reaches us every day OF the
arrest Of incendiaries and the execution,
by the pOpulace, Of persons implicated in
the atrOcious acts Of outrage and crime
that are constantly being perpetrated upon
the community. A recent dispatch in
forms US of the discovery Of large quanti-
ties of poison in the possession Of the
negroes, which was furnished them by
Abolition instigators, for the purpose of
poisoning the wells and streams Of water
and food Of the inhabitants. The loss Of
property by fire and other means Of dep
relation since the excitement first broke
out, has been estimated at not less than
$3,O00,00O. Some twenty persons en-
gagged in the hellish work. whether ne
groes or Abolitionists, or both together,
we are not informed, have been hanged
by the people as they have been arrested.
What is to be the finale Of this organized
underground warfare upon the homes and
families and firesides Of the people Of
Texas, is difficult to tell at present 1t is
a state of affairs which has no parallel in
the history Of our country in atrocity and
satanic outrage. The foray of John Brown
upon Harper's Ferry sinks into insignifi-
canoe in the comparison, and for this
reason. When John Brown was captured
and hung and those who were taken with
him were consigned to the same fate,
there the matter ended. Non outlawry
or violence was visited upon the people.
The plot exploded too soon-before syS-
tematic plan Of operations was fully con-
summated. But in Texas there seems to
be no end to the business. Fires and
murders are occurring all the time, and
arrests and hangings follow in quick sue
cession, and have been doing so now for
months, and there seems no abatement to
the progress of the evil. 1t is evident
now from disclosures that have been made,
that the preparatory steps for general
insurrectionary movement among the
blacks were going forward Systematically
and adroitly for very long time. Like
the progress Of some secret disease in the
human constitution, the advances Of this
deep laid scheme Of blood and plunder
and treason, though unobservcd, have
been steady and sure, until now it is feared
the social body has been infected to such
an extent that it will require the utmost
skill and watchfulness to prevent the most
calamitous results from ensuing.
Our heartfelt sympathy is with our
Texan brethren in their troubles, and the
sympathy Of the mass Of the people of
California is with them. When Texas |
came knocking at the door Of the Union
for admission, asking for the "Lone Star
the high privilege Of mingling its rays
with those of the bright consultations
which already formed so glorious galaxy,
her people asked such privilege for the
purpose Ofbcing secured against evils that
might beset them at home as well as abroad. |
This protection the Government Of the |
United States tacitly promised them. 1t
promised them, too, that their sovereign |
State, being admitted into the fraternity
upon perfect equality with all the other
members Of the houshold, they as citizens
Of the United States should become joint
heirs of and equal participants in all the
privileges, immunities and advantages at
taching to American citizenship. 1t was
promised to them that in the dispensation
Of the benefits and blessings accruing
under the compact, no discrimination
should be made agains. them and in favor
Of the citizens Of any other portion of the
confederated community. These guaran-
tees should be carried out in the spirit |
and to the letter Of the contract. Yet in
the1hce of all these promiscs,-Nhat dave
see! 4Nlargc and powerful and fanatic al
political party striving to obtain the reins
Of Government with the avowed intention,
as soon as it shall become invested with |
power, to nulliGy the sacred contract SOL
emnly entered into between the Govern
ment Of Texas and the Government of the |
United States, by excluding her people |
from going with their property upon the
common Territory Of the country and en-
joying it there free from molcstation or |
annoyance. Not only this, but we see the |
leaders Of this party, the shining lights
and the oraclcs thereof, melting their paid
agents to the perpetration Of overt acts of
violence upon the citizens Of Texas even
upon her own soil. California, we say,
sympathises with Texas in her sufferings
from the unholy warfare being waged
upon her people and upon her rights, by
the advocates of Abolition intolerance,
and will evidence her sympathy by the
signal rebuke she has in store to be admin.
istered to that party in November next.
Better by far would it be for the people Of
Texas, had she remained until to-day bat
tling for independence under the genius of |
the " Lone Star" if she is now to be strip
ped naked Of her rights, and to be scourged |
and insultcd by those who received her
with kiss into the fraternal household,