New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-08-19

| consequently ths. there is less chance Of iam
rection among them. than among tho slaves {
the Border States. This \. an utter mistake.
has for many generations DO u inc ,i'Va',aOl
custom TO send to these SOuthe,.' P"n''''Vp
| every negro of the Border States who ~ D"
time shows desire for freedom, or who ha'
| run away and been arrested-it being supposed
that the number of Overseers necessary on thcsi
plantations makes it unimpOrtant whether th'
slave is FESTIVE or otherwise. The consequence
is that there has been gradual accumulation 10
the far South of the most iDfammable and intel
ligent negroes; and any serious instruction "l
be muSh more apt to come from them than
from their more comfortable Border State COM
rades Only the imminent danger has prevented
it thus far; and even this perpetual vigilance
has not prevented many threatening scenes.
II was not handred miles from where the
Rebel Army is now encanrped that once went
to visit On old Virginia friend. We had Known
each other in boyhoCd. lie had married nnd
settled down on a farm well stocked with ne'
grOes. He then invited me to visit Lim-not
without mentioning that he had heard of my
un.yirginisn heresies on she Slavery question:;
but he wEOte, "that subject we can sink in the
river Styx." 1 went, and found him pleasantly
environed, and happy. Old times were talked OF.
In Tie evening, when we sat talking OF the old
school-scenes, ks beautiful bride sitting near,
Slavery not yet distantly alluded to, nor in all
our thoughts, grOsn was heard outside the door,
and the exclamation: 90 my God /" The hus-
band started-the young wife was out OF tue door
in an instant. There was noise-a moaning
voice replying to On eager, quick one; what they
said, undistinguishaAo. Presently the door Of the
parlor was burst open, disclosing in the hall, sit
ting on the floor with her head on chair, aud
sobbing violently, light mulatto woman. The
Young wife of my friend stood before us, pale as
a sheet, and deeply stirred. Scarcely, for her
tremendous emotion, could she inform us Of the
trouble, which was that the husband of Fanny
(the mulatto girl) had been sold South, and been
taken off that day without even being allowed to
come over TO this neighborug estate and sec his
wife. But never, never can / forget the emotion
and the voice with which my friends young wife
uttered her whole heart. She held up the whole
system as an accursed, GOd-defying system; if by
lifting her finger she could set every slave in
America free, that moment she would do it, and
there would BIO no more white Threats cut than
ought to be. In vain the husband reminded her
that they were not alone; erect as sunbeam,
full of electric wrath, this Pythoness stood before
Inc, aud warned me that l could never hate
Slavery too much. And so she went on with an
eloquence that Phillips would envy, until the palor
was oyerborne by suffusion, and the flush came
with rain OF tears and she went TO Bneel with
the poor, broken heart in the hall. The husband
closed the door on the scene; but ron may judge
that we did not " sink that subject 10 the river
styx" that night
do most earnestly declare, one born and
reared in slaveholding Virginia, that such scenes
are by no means rare in any part OF that State.
am convinced that those ministers in the North
who have defended Slavery are either wretchedly
ignorant Of what they speak Of, or utter hypo-
critics. A few years ago, the Rev. DR.. Dewey,
where he had been delivering a series of lee
lures, was on steamboat between Norfolk aud
Richmond. The boat was hailed from the Shore
and two gentlemen, i. T. We, came on the
boat, supporting on either side light mulatto
man, who seemed gaspiug for life. This young
man had run away from his owner, aud was
closely pursued. When he found that he must
be caught, his master and masters son being
close upon him, the mulattO drew out knife,
and deliberately cut bis own throat. He soon
died. DR.. Dewey himself related this TO me,
and since that day / have heard or read no
word from that eloquent minister except in rep
rotation of Slavery o 81 SIC omaes!
But / must not omit to speak of signs aud to-
kcns in another region of country, the only other
in which have heard Of recent apprehensons
This is in the regions Of the RappahannOck, and
chiefly in the counties Of spotsylyania and Stafford
(the litter being the county in which Acquia is
located) About six years ago, on large fine
estate called Chatham, just across the river from
Fredericksburgh, lived an old lady, who had in
herited from her husband, Judge Coalter, this
large estate of land and negroes. She was
very benevolent old lady, and very kind to her
numerous slaves. About six years ago she died,
and, as she had always promised them, left
will emancipating all her slaves. The form Of
however, was unfortunate; it was
that these slaves should be free if they should so
choose, or else should select their masters from
some of her numerous relatives.
Some time after the old lady's death, shrewd
lawyer whispered in the ear of ono Horace
Lacy, her-at.law (hy marriage) OF Mrs. COalter,
that he could own the Chatham negroes if he
would, since, by the laws of Virginia, negroes
were chattels and had not lie right to Stoose ia