Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1861-08-10
Frona East Tennessee and North Carolina
Threatenfng OF slave InanrreotIon.

From East Tennessee and North Carolina
Threatening OF slave Insnfreotion.
The Tribune has letter from Jonesborough,
Tennessee, dated July 29lh, from which we ex-
tract the following
The political sentiment here is rather
mixed, both Unionists aud 'Scceshers free
ing their minds openly / should Judge.
however, from what see and hear that
the mass of the population are strongly
loyal The disaster at BULBS Run. has. of
course, somewhat discouraged the Union
men, but by no means SO badly as you
would expect of men almost hopelessly sit.
uaied aud menaced by so many dangers.
The promised aid from the government has
been auxionsly awaited for weeks, and the
arrival of arms is looked for daily.
The intelligence from North Carolina is
of rather exciting nature. In addition
to the general aud growing popular discon.
| tent at the miserable mismanagement of af-
fairs since the state was plunged into Sc
cession, the most alarming apprehensions
are iudulgcd Of fearful aud bloody out.
break of the slaves For months this class
of the population have been betraying
great uneasinesS, occasioned doubtless by
the unusual, aud to them rater inexplicabe
military movement about them, aud which
they not very strangely suppose in some
way to concern themselves. There are nu-
merous rumors aaout to the effect that in
some of the middle counties, servants have
risen on their masters, and that whole fami
lies have been brutay bulcherCd at mid.
night. TO these reports however, | am
slow to give crcdeuce believe they are
mostly the creation of imaginaIions always
lively to the latent perilS of slaychoding
society, and now especially diStempered by
the aggravated dangers Of the times. But
where there is so much smoke there must
be some fire ) and it may turn out that the
facts have not been exaggerated, aud that
: North Carolina, and perhaps the whole
! South is on the eve Of most sanguinary
and desohtng servile insurrection. That
such calamity is intelligently feared is
certain and its horrors may Startlo hu.
manity at any moment.
1t is stated that such is the refractory
disposition Of The colOred people of late il
the more largely slaycholdng section o
p the state, and so manifest are the symp
5 toms of contemplated and preconcerteC
mischief, that an earnest requisition ha
been made upon the Western Carolnian
for the immediate moving to the disaffectet
quarter of Home Guards (who, by tn
way, are nearly all strong Union men, t
S the amout Of two or three regiments, 70
the prompt suppression Of the anticipate
uprisal. ......... ...
c 1t is a fact of great signGcance-and
2 believe it to be fact, for my informant
. perfectly reiable-that the Home Guard
have refused to proceed to the relief {
}. their imperied neighborS under any othe
o banner than the Stars and Stripes, and NJ
f on condition, furthermore, that the secc:
. sion Aag shall eyerywhere.be hauled down q
5 their approach. Should an iusurrection i
S North Carolina or any other souther
e state, assume the formidable proportion
! which appear to be threatened in this il
stance, it would be the manifest duty G
the Federal Government to promptly il
: : terycne TO put it down.