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,,u! |>ri cedent i itions have been , m I von and li uctioi on tl ; • the tnurder- 

 o I' their feelings ol' indignation — antl ol njjjiroval •■■l ers. Whether such ett'ects may he great or small, the 



such legal and proper measures, (and p lilabli result jnust h , that whatever eviLs 



exceeding the legal limit,) as ma} be deemed neces maybe brought on the w I cause ten times as 



S ary to guard against these assassin-like a H i uch to the race which til 



circumstances of the very recent di cov< , oi an in- in: rve. [f anj one desired the 



tended insurrection of slaves in Mi i of j In be inflicted on 



ted, planned, and intended to be led (as is alleged) bj ho skn ot the oulh, by any means, and without re- 

 white men, some of whom were of the gard to other consequences, he ought to wish for the 



northern abolitionists, have served to add fuel t<> the increase of the numbers, strength, and power ol the 



Uaine, and l" incr i •■■ the bill - iation, ab I I the north, 



and of hostile feeling. The Souiha e is often brought forward 



So far as the opinions of the South, (n proeeedin danger ol insurrection. 'I'd 



from public meetings, and from the pi generally,) ■ uml of those deplorable events, and the 



.,,■,• expressive of indignation at the iu lenls uc (and we had good humus of knowing 



(lie. abolitionist; and of delen the contrary. The i 



hazards, awllo any length, the I Southampton was gotten uj md mstained 



Hieir theories, (even in tlie sii i tar,) tluy throi h its brief course of thirty- ; lioin by the 



command our entire and li . oi' e\ oral circumstances, some of which 



[oubl Um' prop) iet} and the policy ol tl , lover can be again looki d foj 



much importance to the ravings ol the abolitioni I fho leader wa - of uncommon powei of mind 



and to their circulation through the press and the mail yet mcln I vi li aw oi n mils -a religious 



Plio violence of effort openly exhibited in endea voi enthusiasl ivho I : p I (', and sonn 



in..- (o suppress these publications (even if entirely of his i i follow he pi ed prophetic 



successful in the attempt,) may have as ill effects on and perhap i While this d< 



lie • for whom these publications were d igned, lusi u (and thi done,) I hi hi fust few 



ion: ami perha] \. i . ! ■ Ibllowei , he had cunnin it to imparl his dc- 



i in<>' Hi.' apparent iinportan e of tin ;n, even generally, but to two, until the day of the 



far more than i vvn in .ill, before coin 



, ir own labors could as yet have cifected. I mitling the first midni 



Wo tin ii. il intend I li had lien: coin- 

 policy of the institution ol icists in these mil tod to even lift} md for a single wcel 

 slates. We should disdain maintaini] lie a ild have been divulged, as in every 



10 defend our rights, i lo m our claim of property. I othe of conspirac} \ powerful aid 

 Whatever may be the evils of our system ol slavery, m I ry ,'ements in this 

 (and we den} not that they are many for the slaves, country, was that i ( was the season for distilling: 01 

 and still more foi theii masti rs,) the matter i.- oui mm every farm new In bund in abundance, ami 

 concern — and we will not con 'lit to its n Iation 1 ( Idening power was kept in full opera 



iched bj III'' people of the north. And while recruits, and to stimulate them lo acts of butchery. 



ill,-, will confini theii efforts to mei the} w II flieii »vholi bloi f, progress manifested the deeds of 



meet with no success in exciting II:'' slaves (ol Vii uicn lantic by the conflict of drunken valo 



ginia at I ast) as a body, lo insurrection. There tin of their nature, or of education. The 



would h" at least as mucl , if the hand never reached filly in mil I II the re 



attempt was made, by writing and printing on this side emits were forced by threal i to theii rani , and 



; Ihc Atlantic, to stimulate the peasantry "1 Ireland, most of the others were deluded bj false state m 



or even the better informed poor population of En which were almost equal in 



land, to cut the th n eize the property of the power to 



1 1 cli. I'm I though the object of the aboliti all urpriscd and i tly wo- 

 together visionary and impracti ' : I would li i men and children, before their im uei were 

 subject for derision and contempt, but for its probable enough known to ca Lance m as the 

 accompaniment of horrors- still they can, and proba ancc h; armed wl I 



bly will, (if at all countenanced by lite belter judging ' the who! 



mil/drill/ of their countrymen,) produce effi cts ■;' awful .md not the slightest attempt wa i i to rally, or re- 

 importance, and affecting deeply and permanent^ , the , p< at tin' effort. .Ml the guilt} p :rished and unfortu- 

 welfare of the people of the United States, and the nately more than the guilty, from the madness of the 

 permanency of their present general government. The | times, such as will always be excited l>\ such events 

 utmost direct effect of (lie efforts of the northern pro- - ami of which awful fruits will always ho produced, 

 vokers of insurrection, would be conspiracies of slaves, when an infuriated people (as lately in Mississippi,) 

 detected before maturity, as recently in Mississippi, take the execution of law and justice into theii own 

 md visited awfully, illegally, and without just discrim- hands — which is equivalent to having bo i 

 iiiation, on the heads of black and white of the inno- justice completer} put a ide and their place taken bj 

 cent as well as the guilt} oi partial massacres by the ignorance, delusion, and worsl passions oi 

 the blacks, as in Virginia in 1831, which however a The efforts ol ii; olitionists of the north, (oi 

 Morions, and afflicting to individuals, would be nothing of their more temperate country mi n, who claim lo be 

 as a war measure, ami would draw down most < ertain friends ol southern interests, because they arc li 



