Year: 1860

An UndOubfed Error Exposed.


"Nemo" the Richmond correspondent of
the Petersburg Express thus sets forth some
very consistent views on the fallacy of one por-
ton of the Presidents Message He writes as
one who knows the workings of the peculiar
institution" and his expose is certainly true of
the slaves in North Carolina. Hear him


There is one passage in the Message which
has met with no protest thus far, wherein Mr..
Buchanan manfests the most absurd and I'M
accountable ignorance Of slavery-a subject
that he ought to have become thoroughly ac-
quainted with in all it's bearings long ago
You will allow me, [ arn sure, to set the mat
ter right, so far as the columns Of the Express
are co lcerned. The President represents the
Southern people to be greatly alarmed en- &C
count of the slaves, lest, INSPIRED with vague
notions of freedom" they should avail them
selves of the present crisis as favorable time
for rising in revolt against their masters. Now,
it is we'll that upon this subject correct ideas
should prevail everywhere. While a larger
degree of vigilance than ever is required to pre-
vent INSTRUMENTATION among the negroes lndl-
vidually, in consequence of the mischievous in
reference of abolition emssaries, there never
was time when anything like general insur-
rection of the slaves less to be apprehen-
tled than the present. Whenever eXigency
arises which nearly concerns the master, the
negro is paralysed as it were by underlined
dread of something in the future beyond and
above his foreknowledge, and it is just upon
occasions like the raid Of John Brown that the
slaves are most tractable and least likely to en-
gage in law less acts Nothing in the way of
grand and organized plan of insurrection has
been set on foot in the South since the insane
rebellion of Nat. Turner, and though reports
are constantly circulated Of extended schemes
of revolt, accompanied with murder and pill
lage, it turns out, in every instance, that the
account has been greatly exaggerated, or is
wholly fictitious People do not sleep less
comfortably in their beds, forall these rumors
Mr. Buchanan errs in attributing this general
sense Of insecurity to our people, and the North
especially ought to know it. Deeply as a re-
sort to arms between the two sections is to be
deplored by every patriot, the fear of internal
disorders is one which does not disturb us
and if, in the worst possible condition OF things
that could betal Us, ae actual bloody conflict
between citizens OF once united and happy
country the people of the North should count
upon this fear and upon selvile outbreak
they will he wofiiY mistaken. Tiae ministry
Df George III expected an Instruction of the
negroes III the Wl7 cj the Revolution, and did
their hest to fomcht it bat the slave l'opula-
Zion proved loyal to their owners, and many ot
ehcln served faithfully in menial capacities
throughout the campaign Thus it would be
in contest with the North, (Which God in his
infinite mercy avert i)-and though here and
there some misguided or mal-trcated slave
might rush upon his own destruction in COM
mittng some act of violence against his MASTER
the great mass Of the negroes would remain do
Gle and obedient, taking care Of the homestead,
in the absence of the white men.


Let the North beware how it presumcs upon
this false notion Of the insecurity Of slavery at
lrome, and let the capitalists of the North look
we'll to the imminent peril of chartist uprl-
sing terrible outbreak of the Faubourgs
among themselves Already the angry NUT
terings of discomfort from the thousands of dis
charged operatives in the large cities give warn
ing of trouble to GENE, and the very first bite
of severe weather may witness a revolution
which shall topple their princely mansions
about their ears Marie Antoinette, in the
simplicity of her nature, thought it very strange
that the people should starve while there were
buns at the pastry cooks, and the disaftected
workmen Of Brooklyn, who have been thrown
out of employment by the monetary crisis,
have resolved that they do not intend starving
us long as there's -four in the warehouses. The
French Queen supposed, in her ignorance of
commercial distresses, that every Iaborer had
five seus in his pocket to buy buns withal but
the Brooklyn malcontentS mean to take the
-four without money, and no thanks to the
commission merchants Bacon street may
tremble when the shoemakers of Natick and
Lynn again cry for bread; Fifth Avenue may
be alarmed for its silver plate when the mob
runs uncontrolled through the streets of New
York The Tiresias that foretell their doom
may be heard now above the chorus of the
Academy by all who to listen to him.