The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-12-15

respectable people at the North who had
been willing to put the means OF doing
mischief into the hands Of desperate men,
and then ~designedly to keep themselves
In ignorance of how these means were
being employed. Such revelations were
Of course, immensely disquieting TO South
ern minds that were not cool n Impair
tial, and a majority of Southern minds.
or, for that matter, Of minds everywhere.
belonged to this class. Another fact is re-
called, namely, that, long before the re-
port of the Senate committee was pub
lishe cd things much more disquieting had
occurred in connection with the outrage
than the revelations Of the report would
have been, had these been made In Novem-
Der, 1859. instead Of six months afterward.
The reference Is TO the demonstrations
INDUCED In throughout many parts OF the
North on the day of Browns execution.
II is we'll known that Brown and his band
had murdered five men and wounded some
eight or ten more In their criminal move
ment at Harper's Ferry. Prof. Burgess's
comment on their crime Ia that. III they
had done nothing more than kill the free
negro Hayward. they would have made
themselves common murderers, and would
have been deserving Of nothing but the
punishment for murder and the execration
of all decent men.
add to this the consideration that Brown
certainly Intended the Wholesale massacre
of the whites by the blacks. in case that
should be found necessary to effect his
purposes, and it was certainly natural that
the tolling of church bells, the holding of
prayer meetings for the soul of John Brown,
the draping of houses, the half-masting
of flags, &c. in many parts OF the North,
should appear to the people Of the South
TO be evidences of a w~ickedness which
knew no bounds, and which was bent upon
the destruction of the South by any means
necessary 10 accomplish the result The
author goes on a little later to say, 'Espe-
cially did terror and bitterness take pos
session of the hearts Of the women Of the
South. who saw In slave Instruction not
only destruction, but that which to femi-
nine virtue is n thousand times worse than
the most terrible death. For those who
would excite such a movement or sympa-
thize with anybody who would excite such
a movement, the women of the South felt
a hatred ms undying rs virtue itself. Men
might still hesitate, Inc consider, and argue,
but the women were united and resolute,
anu ultlT uHdHlIllOuN tNI4Oi w "dN1
Mel Of the South, defend the honor Of
your mothers. your wives, your sisters
and your daughters 1t is your highest
and most sacred dutyl' ,
Prof. Burgess denies that il was true 10
the extent and degree generally assumed
at the North that the leaders among the
shareholders knew that there was no such
danger of slave instruction M the masses
supposed there was, and also Knew hat the
sympathy at the North for any such move
ment, or for anybody who would take
part in any such movement, was not ones
t~housandth part As great az the masses
al the South believed II 10 bc. THE lead
ing Shareholders had no such clear know
ledge OF the character and impulses of their
slaves. or of the intentions OF tho North
a. subsequent opinion has attributed to
them. They themselves were not wholly
free from the fear which possessed the
masses Of Southern whites, and they could
not rave created this terror among the
masses. except for the actual attetapt To
excite slav Instruction, and the apparently
widespread sympathy for the same in many
parts OF the North. From the Harper's
Ferry outrage. onward the conviction
grew among all classes that the white men
OF the South must stand together, and must
harmonic all internal differences in the
presence OF the mortal peril with which.
a. a race. they believed themselves threat
ened Sound development in thought and
feeling was arrested. The follies and the
hatreds born Of fear and resentment now
assumed the places Of common sense and
common kindliness. War and bloodshed
became "A necessity for the relief of burning
hearts
l. the Harper's Ferry raid to be palliated
in retrospect because, but for " and the
feeling Of resentment and alarm which it
have bern perpetuatcd until this day
Nothing could be- more emphatic than our
authors answer in the negative Unless
We are fa'alists or JeSui's I'm philosophy.
We are bound 10 condemn this crime 90 the
end 81 time and e~Xccrate the Commuters
Of II, even though We should a-rrile 20 IL
the emancipation 81 the bondmcn. II l.
an arrput 10 Divinity itself 90 assert that
tho worlds civilization cannot boz real 2 a
except through violence aud destruction,
blood. crime aud lin II b. the cardinal
flllacy OF Or.utaIlsm 90 hold that what
ha- happcn~i must have heru Inevitable.
No. only A. o. fho end -'"lrei but also a.
10 the means by Wh,,h thr ,nd wac secured
II IN th. -pa--l1uai" haste Of sinful man
which dirr- a. hurry the plane - pruyi-
DONG ly 40" employment of u"au- shtrh
rIn fha plane Of thoir CORY and their di
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