The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1861-01-30

the sacred temple, they will trample over
the heads of screaming women and panic
stricken men, they will scale the pulpit
and dragging from his hold upon the sa-
cred place the man of God, they will stop
the fow of his eloquence and wit by hang
ing him from the horAs of his own altar!
An hour will pass ard the police having
failed to restore order, the soldiers will
come, with the Mayor at their head, and
the mob will be shot down like rabid dogs;
there will be blood upon the pulpit stairs,
blood upon the torn leaves of the Bible
and psalm book, blood in the aisles, on
the pave, blood flowing freely enough,
and good citizens will say. the blood aoas
rightly shed. But will that end it and
will there be no more mobs? Do not
think i'll for the internal spirit once
aroused will not slumber again for many
years, and New York may expect to see
in herself the image of Paris in the days
of Terror. Do you mock at this as a
crazy fancy? Well, then, here is what
you will believe. Though the spirit of
violence and open rebellion against oil
authority may not be generally aroused
throughout the North-though we may
not behold in our streets the re enact
ment of the disgraceful Kansas drama
we shall most assuredly find as a result of
civil war, that from every house, every
town meeting, every civil assembly, every
neighborhood and every church in the
Iiand-the old spirit of brotherly love and
hearty fellow. citizenship has fled to re-
turn no more. What the end of such q
strife will be we all know, unless history
lis for us sealed book But, if you
please, we will'look at some of the con-
sequences of civil war iu the South
One of the inevitable results of civil
war would be servite insurrection. Do
you know what that means? Do the wo-
men of this congregation realize what the
condition of their Southern sisters woulc
be in such an event?
There is in the bare probability of such
a calamity more than enough to Gll the
heart with sickening terror. 1t is vision
Of indescribable horrors we evoke. BY
the red light of blazing torches, or the
Iurid glare of burning houses it is brought
before us but how dare we attempt TO
portray it! What words are adequate to
the description of servIe insurreciion--
enough to say, one day, of such an nsur.
recion, when it is successful, is worse
than whole century of ordinary slavery.
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The wives of the South are many of
them the daughters of the North and
West. Aud it is upon their fair forms
the savage negro has 6xed his lustful eye;
upon their heads will his club or ak de-
sceud; into the hearts of their defenseless
babes will his pike be thrust. BY their
fair tresses will delicate girls of Georgia
a d Louisiana be dragged by black aud
blood stained hands to what before death
"a fate TO which a murderous death is as
hell to heaven. Oh! but the slave will
have high carnival when the day SO de-
voutly prayed for by many white men in
this land shall have dawned even the
day when the sword of civil war is drawn
and the brand of servile insurreciion is
kindled. But there will be fearful after
ward to that day-or have much mista-
ken Saxon human nature. 1t may be that
white men in this country will be So busy
| fighting their own battles that they will
have no time to think of any thing more
than quieting the negro revolt; but the
day will come for vengeance, and negro
hunting will become in this land as popu-
lar as priest.hunting was once in unhappy
Ireland. And the hunters will be just as
likely to fit themselves out for their days
shooting 10 Boston and New York as in
Charleston and New Orleans. / do not
say that this will be righteous retribu-
tiou--I am but stating probabilities
such as you know the nature of mnn, aud
of your own race especially, must admit.
Does the history of the Indian Sepoys
and the Englishman's dealing with them,
give you any hope for the negro, should
be attempt 90 large scale such an insur.
rection?