The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-12-02

natural that they should be? "Some-
thing more than tremendous has hap
pened to them since the first of April -
rs one of them remarked the other
day -" and II they are little beside
themselves in their notions, what harm
does that do anybody.n We do not
apprehend any disturbance growing
out of combined rising of the me-
groes against the whites, and MAIN
~ FOR two reasons-first, there is
no cause for it; and secondly, the most
ignorant among the colored men know
that should they attempt it-even for
what might appear to them to be just
cause for revolt-they would be exter-
minated. Some of our contemporaries
further South, we are sorry to observe,
are less hopeful and many Northern
journalists, too, see a cloud as large as
that which recently darkened Jamaica,
descending upon us. We hope both
sections are misinformed. The Will
mington North Carolina) Dispatch has
"received Information, of an undOubted
character, that the freedmen in the
neighborhood of Topsail Sound, in this
county, have been recently committing
excuses of the most outrageous ch.rac-
ter. Amongst other acts, they have
several times fired into the houses of
the citizens of that neighborhOod, and
apprehensions are felt that, unless speed
lily checked in their present course, they
will become bold enough to attempt
still worse" If the local |
civil authorities are not equal to
reducing these outlaws to subsection
and we think they are-they should call
upon the nearest military post for assist,
ance. We have no doubt that General
Cook would give the needed aid, and
that promptly. If it be true that there
are organized bands of idle blacks
rowing through certain counties In North
Carolina in the vicinity of Wilmington,
who are bent On crime, they should be
captured, and punished prompt
y. Such lesson would do them good:
md quiet the feelings of the timid coun-
ny people.
Felix Grundy of Tennessee once WISE
y remarked. that The way to ensure the
'eace Of state IS SO to legislate as to
make it to the interest of all its honest
to keep the peace. Secure
he rights of all, he said, and all will
Import and maintain the laws. Those
eople in Louisiana and elsewhere who {
sarful of a negro instruction will do ,
'ell to bear in mind this speech of a
outhern man. Much, says the New :
FORK Evening Post, has been said about I
lie recent outbreak in Jamaica, and
eople speak as though negro insurrec-
ons were something new there, and +
ad only occurred since the blacks be- O
'me free. But the facts are otherwise. a
While slavery existed in Jamaica, there =
as a constant Instruction there. For
rty years, the maroons, mutinous and e
giive slaves, held the mountain fast U
ssses of the island, and carried on war !, !,
18th the whites, and the government Al
as ut last forced to make treaty of b
ace with them. In 176O, in 1895, and a
1882 there were special and formidable :,
surrections of the slaves, subdued with II
eat difficulty. Butwhen freedom was 81
clared these instructions ceased, and a
I'm the year 1888, when the slaves of ~
maica became free, to the last month. ii
ere has been no outbreak. Thus mere sc
freeing the slaves was the most effec- Ell
e of peace measures. 80