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Show TilE GOLDEN HOUR. 76 Massachusetts d . f a third In oro Cued an 1 should be op '. l . , wn lHuucs than out ll C..(.", r, - t vntc tlCll o . . 1ne 11 could no y th shoulu., 1, <lcclarcu v1ctonou ·. uc olina men, tho on ,d tho outhcrner. ' beneath l cruel to war . . 1 I . That was rat 1Cr bowie-knife IS mlg lvtcr . 1 oTcat the . 1 o e rule, entrre y b ' roan ·who hau WIt w 1 . b t it was frorn a . . than the pen ' u . ' Couc of Ilonor ls a dlf-tl at Ltbcrty s enourrh to know l Sl "Y To that or any lo-b that of aver . . ferent one from r. d tly tru ·t Alnencan may contl en gitimate weapon we t tho ·hifting chances of b t ot one hour o f Freedom ; u 11 . t to tho accident o a . help It,- no .. war, 1f we can b , or the pos1 L1on of a • cr drunk or so er' general's berno fl. defences arc the sur- If these 1msy ditch or fence. d tho world's tru t to . 1 can surroun est with wlnc l we . lamp will be removed . b sure the precrous f . Amenca, e . 1. thourrh \VC be le t 111 to those who can keep 1t a 1ve, o outer darkness. X II I. TilE PROBABILITIES OF INSURRECTION. THE experience of tho Slave States has fnrni. ·bed r eason to believe that no genera1 and concerted insur. 1 can occur for lnany years. rc~:o:s~::t~:;s this question, several things arc to be THE PROBABILITIES OF INSURRECTION. 77 remembered: -1. That tho negroes cannot generally 1vrite, or usc the 1nails or tho facilities of travel. They arc undoubtedly anxious enough for their frccdo1n to strike any blow that might have a reasonable pro. poet of succe ; but they can sec as readily a· we that concert would be nccc ary, and that to any great extent i iinpossiulc. It will be relnc1nbercd that the insurrection of Nat Turner and that planned by Denmark V cscy covered very small sections of tho States in which they occurred, though they wore tho most exton. i\TC and elaborately prepared of all that have occurred. 2. The neob Tocs arc an cxtrcn1 \ly cautions people, anJ not at all self-reliant. ~fuch of thi.· is the re ·uH of their training. A negro 1nay be browbeaten oven into tho confession of thing he has not dono; and at a word of suspicion about any real offence, he at once suppo cs the rna tcr knows everything, anu make a clean brea t of it. It is probably through tho ·c moans, rather than deliberate treachery upon tho part of any of them, that schcn1cs of thi kind have boon o often betrayed by nerbr roes themselves. 3. Tho negroes arc upcrstitious, and in the direction of special providcnces. They believe generally in luck and miracle, and tho fatali ·m of the Baptist Church, to "vhich they usually belong, helps to cnt the sinew-s of their own right anns. "Who 1vould be free, thclnsclvcs mn t trike the blow," would be an incomprehensible sentiment among them, aud, in my opinion, it will never be true in their case. When their blo'v comes, it will be at the end of a long |