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Show 46 TilE GOLDEN HOUR. . 1 ,1,, guard in 0' its slaves from escape, and sadc of t 10 wor u, o . . t . 1 0 its homes to assas rnate the hbat the san1c nne cn.v U .t d s~ atcs .A.ll that a Southerner hath crtics of the 111 0 IJ~ • • . . r , 1 . slave . and to that cord draw1ng wrll he g1 vc 101 ns ' . . . . 11 l,e added that pan1c ·whrch a wln ·per hun home \VOU <. u . of . . ,aisc in that scctlon to such an ex- 1nsurrcc t1on can I . 1 tent t 1at "t d : cs all before it. In a single month 1 uv ld 1 tl r]i tribution of all the forces of the there won )0 <II '"' Confederacy into yarious llon1C Guar<l . . . P cr1 u :tp I ~un nlOl'C imprC cd \Vl Lh the COllVlCtiOll of 1 · d. to 1t )otcncy of cn1anci pation than persons 10 11111110 la d · tl 0 rcarc 111 Nor·th I have con the pallor which a l · 1 · 1, 1.1 · 11 a· upon tho checks of hundreds. I w nspcr can u b • • • know that a casual rumor has aga1n and again dopn ved whole towns of a week's sleep. N cgro in urrcction is the name for every horror, sin1ply because it is one of which the Southerners know nothing. It is doubtful whether, jn all tho insurrections in the South for a hundred years put together, five hundred slaves have been in actual insubordination. The present generation has seen nothing of the kind. That is the very reason why there is such a horror and panic about it: it is a vague, mysterious, and unknown evil. A.s far as the shudder about " covering the South with the horrors of insurrection " is real, and not a traitorous pretence, it rnay be met by the fact that the hi tory of insurrection throurrhout the world shows that in every case the bar-b barity was chiefly on the part of the whites, and always proYokcd by them. In every ca.. c, twenty blacks havo LIBERTY'S LEGITIMATE \VEAPON. 47 been butchered to one white. Of all the races now on earth, there is none . o little cruel, so little bloodthirsty, as the negro; that being ·why it has been for .0 many ages the enslaved race. The only dread \VC could have in an iminccliatc 01nancipation of this raco is, that the Confederate forces \vould rush home to massacre their negroes. Doubtless they \Votdcl a k the United tatcs for a fc,v lTIOnths' truce for t1l()t u, purpose, -and as the faniily of fool, j · )'Ct rrtll. 1c 1" d ' l u cd' O'C an rC-spcctablc, and rnost of thcn1 have 1nanaged to bccoinc generals iu our anny, there would be danger that our cou~teous 1\fcClcllans, IIallccks, &c. would be " quiet" until the massacre should take place. But when we are up to such a rna tor-stroke of ju 'Lice, we shall be up to stripping the epaulets fro1n ncoTo hounds a ,, 1 · b - nu p acu1g the1n on the shoulders of n1cn We sl1o1• tld l'CCOO'lll·Z C in that call for a truce, which would surely cornc ~od 's . . . ' Invitation for us to n1arch into the South the protectors of black and whiLe,- an army of saviours, not of destroyers,- our glorious ta ·k to sec that the transitionpangs. of tl~c South were safely passed, and her people born rnto lrght and liberty. Let none doubt that the lave is ready to stir in a way which will paralyze the annics of the South, as soon as he hears the true voice. I oucc a ked a slave why. it was that he and others did not escape : he rcphcd, "Because, after getting ou t of the slavo-holdinrr States, we must either drive under or fly over all th: slavo-ltating States from here to Canada." Let Canada |