Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1864-02-06
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS RIGHTS.
RICHMOND WHlG.
SATURDAY MORNING, FEE. 9. 1854.
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over mine, which might at Aby moment explode to
our destruction. The fret thought of foreigner among
us. upon occasion Of any nightly alarm, ia of ssrVile
insurrecdon Painted, We have been, as Criminals
tyrans and robbers obnoxious to God and man, whose
minds ara warped by interest," and moral sense bunIed
by hsbs AID familiarity with abuse, desperate retriOu
on was denounced against Us At the hands OF those
who had been org The victims of our mpious and bar
baroas practices. Assured through thousand chan
nes which we cannot and not to detect with every
fort to madden and excite them, that they are the
victims Of the most grinding and cruel injustice ana op
preston ASSURED OF the scsve assistance OF the largest
armies of modern times, aud of the countenarce and
sympathy Of the rest Of the world assured that such
an prise would not only be generous and heroic,
DC, eminenty successful enemies have heretofore
failed to excite solitary instance Of resurrection,
much less to bring on seville war;
An estimate, said to have emanAted from Mr. Seward,
puts the loss Of slaves at the South by abconding snd
addiction, at 10 600 per month stree the war began
This, correct would be 1000 per annum, or about
an aggregate OF $4,000 during the At tkis rate,
we're there no natural increase, it would take thirty
three years TO deprive Of our 100000 Of slaves
But The uniform ratio Of increase since 1920 Is three
per cent or just 100 900 per annum, which is exactly
the number they claim to deprive Us Of. Thus ii the
liberation of our slaves their object this war may be
carried on peIpstlay st its present rate without making
the slightest progress to that end.
The ratio OF cur Losses is perhaps less now than
earlier in the war The majority of negroes lost BY US
we're tics, allured them by promises Of liberty, 10
soIk, and pounilul supplies Of good things. De-
ceiVed in their anticipation Of oU dgHitGts, and
finding the spade and the musket in heah and cold ne
ec in sickness in lieu Of t-thsir wives and children,
bor old and inarm subj sCted to privatonI and suffer-
logs never experienced from their master-ss many as
could returned home, and by their doleful accounts
Of their experiences deferred others from Jenturing
upon tle same experiment The amount OF captures
have not been great privse interest berg too much
On the alert to expose them to that mshap Tia. the
loss claimed probably exceeds the actual number is il
as,rated By the fact hSt Northern papers put the num-
Der Of negroes in service With which they will open tie
spring campagc, ircuuing recruits among themselves
a. well as those taken from US only so O00-nO doubt
an e1sggera,ion. l: ia well known that the grtser
pat Il those so have lost are Eble-boded males
Anorg tie ayowed objecs Of The war Waged upon
az the restoration OF the Union the subjugation Of
TIC South sre secondary to the liberation of slaves.
Enar cpation proslamatons with view to iucite i-tu,
oectons ard he employ ment Of such fall into their
bands against us backed BY all their gigantic military
preparations, have poEed far almost total failures.
All idCa Of danger from servls instruction which,
u realty, was never seriously spprehended is f.s.
ous from he imagination Of the most ignorant
and tnid judging from our past experience, aud from
history The idea OF such outbreak has no support
on the fsa.s Of the norous AID the inventions OF the
designing Our slaves thus far have not at all enbar
sassed or weakened US in G war conducted for tSe
express purpose Of giving them Liberty Under the
suparnteudencs of few, while the great body Of
men have been fighting in the field they have maintan-
ed on. agricultural We regard our institu
or not only as sure and safe, but of the main
Of our strength Il is the base OF our operations.
Ii ever brought TO extremity, it will DO found sure,
vet il should be tie very las-iesource for resist
.ucs id recuperaon. Oar spacious enemy, fully aware
of Ibis more through policy THAI fanaticsm, have long
turned all their batteries upon 1t.
Slavery has existed everywhere, and in all ages
Until within few centuries slaves of the same
sor a. their masters and often their equals ia point Of
rank before captivity Many Of than highly edu
Gated in Greece AID Rome, and trained to arms and,
for The NEST part they carried the mechanic arts
Yet all apprehension from them was regarded ground
sss even in invasive Wars. They we're regarded
a. an embarrassment even in the desoatiDg tina.
ended in the virtual extinction of those raions 10
c,nt.s between Sparta and Aessina, the Heots many
fold more numerous than their masters, and the most
oppressed Of all slaves rose Z" in obedience to
What the superstition OF that age regarded as COM
m,nd of God, indicated by disastrous earthquake -
Rls they were instantly dispersed by their masters
Daring the Peloponnesan war; the SpartanS undsr the
treseberous advice Of Alcbades, fortified Decelea
the anne plain with Athens with the ayoTsd purpose Of
of ring an asylum to fugitive slaves. Though Ofeu
duced to the last extremity By and factions, their
county frequently ravaged to the city walls with slave
population Of thirteen every free citizen, aud an asy-
lum open within sight for ten years, yet only one in
eighty of her slaves deserted their masters. During the
feud ages there is scarcely record single concerted
tempt perhsps the JGeqEsris excepted, to throw OF
the woke Of the lord or landed proprietor By the vlssa
Living. as VIC are, often in WdernCsses With large
masses Of slaves snd few whites, yet no concerted plan
of psurrec,ion has ever Appsire among The three
instances of local outbreaks within the past two cenu
ries in Virginia South Carolina and Louisiana, in which
LA, than 100 lives in all we're los-never threatened
the slightest danger to the institution. How much less
serions and frequent these outbreaks than mutniss
in the best organized armies and nGves aud strikes and
rios in cies The statistics of murders of masters by
oar slaves are less than those Of parents by children 10
other coantri.s. Can Euch class possessing neither
property, talent, nor facilities for extensive inter
communicating, who feel no evils or feel them
lightly, DO ever source Of apprehension to usf
The idea of dsPriVing US of our slaves and Of arm
ing and exciting them to rise against US is not orgi-
nal with this war. It was attempted IN the old revolu-
ton. In South Carolina rs 600 and in Georgia one half
the slaves were seized aud carried OF by the British
Those States we're completely Ovenun and o7g held as
conquered prOyinces Yet there were 70" cases oil de-
serion and none of instruction. In the former State
one regiment of negroes was clothed in scarlet and