Year: 1861

fell asleep at their work the following day. They
even admit that half the egroes of large settlement
could hold nightly meetings in the swamps, and no
white man would know anything Of the natter The
only remedy against this, in sections where the pana.
tons are small, is to keep the negroes 90 hard at work
TO get them up in the morning early, and work
them 20 late at nght-that they viii have no dispoei.
ton to leave their cabins during the night. In the
crop season this easily be done and the man who
then works the most scrcs to hand" has the sddi
tona satisfaction Of feeling that he has least to fear
from the treacbery of bis slayes.


In the Winter, however, work fails, and moment
airy vent is given to those fires which, however eon-
ceaed and slut npon themselves are always burning
burning with patient, smodering fame beneath tho
surface Of Southern society,"


AZ ibis season Of the year most Of the instructions
burst forth aud it only illustrates the fact which have
already mentioned as to the growing of insecur.
ty in reference 20 the slave, that it is every year
deemed necessary TO increase the number and sictness
Of Tie precautions which it is customary to adopt at THE
tire. Nor the SoutherRers whatever their organs
may say unconscious Of the dangers TO which they are
exposed from this quarter in the present with the
North. No class OF remarks are more common among
those whose age detans them at home than that
in this war il weakest left in hc position of great
est danger. As proof Of the anxiety, it is notice.
able that tho Home Guards the largest companies
of the South. To these belong all the white men NOT
already bearing arms ia ether companies. Even those
who are suspected Of having scruples about fighting
aganssthe North are permitted to purchase the right
of dence by attaching themselves to these oganza.
ions. In most cases. however, these bodies defeat the
very object Of their formation for while they suis
cepty large 10 show 10 the slaves the extent Of tho
fears of the whites they not large enough to excite
the awe necessary to hold them in restraint.


But planters az general thing, have not very high
opinion Of the reflective power Of the negro and, 20
ar as appearances be trusted, il must be admitted
that the mules themselves have not gone through the
agiiaons of the past year with more stod indiers
ence to their meaning than the slaves STILL frequently
during the last few months, masters have been sur,
piised and ghtened by chance remark dropped By
Of tie cotton choppers, which betrayed under.
standing Of the issues Of the present conflict thss
they rona only account for the supposton that an
Abolitionist had been "tampering" with him. Under
the nrenetrable vail of Stupidity withwhcb the slavs
covers bs most petty schemes il is impossible to cay
how much may lie hidden. They stand simply greas
race educated only 70 deception and cruelty, bound by
color in an in6exble CASTE and knit by every intimacy
Of social dependence in tie very fabric Of society.


Should they Iise it is clear that every trait Of theif
long triiningihe very intimacy into which they have
been pressed by the seishness Of dominant race
would give to their warfare individual and characA
teristc feature OF horror II Is the old story Of per.
feet justice working in the movements of human 20.
cety. IL is true, tie slaves may not rise If tho
war is short they probably will not but even this 10
but temporary postponement of danger which
few more years viii render inevitable. Mr. Toombs,
who is unfortunately, not always equally reliable il
his yacinaticns showed himself true prophet when,
in biz speech OF Montgomery, be declared that in ffa
teen years moIe without great increase in slsve ters
rory either the slaves must be permitted tofee from
the whites or the whites flee from tho slaves,
In war carried into the Interior servile nsurrectiop
is inevitable. RESIDENT IN THE SorIRs