The Wyandot Pioneer

Servile Insurrections—The Cause.

The St. Louis Democrat of the 16th inst. thus places the saddle on the right horse, as to the cause of the threatened insurrections in the Southern States. The Democrat is published in the slave State of Missouri, and supported Buchanan for President, which facts we state that our readers may not suppose that its opinion is affected by any bias towards the Republicans. It says;

The country has recently been startled by the discovery of wide spread and deep laid plans of insurrection among the negroes in the southern States. This discovery has carried dismay and terror to the hearts of many people, and, indeed, nothing could be better calculated to awaken alarm in the bosom of the boldest. A man who could face death in its most appalling shape with firmness and constancy, might well shrink with apprehension and dismay from a danger which threatens to bring death, and worse than death, to the wife of his bosom, and the children that surround his hearthstone.

Such of the Southern journals as that attempted to give any explanation of the cause of these insurrections, have concurred in attributing it to the discussion of the slavery question during the recent Presidential election. It is well known that in this State, and all over the South, the pro-slavery party have denounced all who opposed their scheme for extending slavery into Kansas as abolitionists, and charged that all such persons, composing an immense majority at the North, were determined, if they obtained power, to abolish slavery throughout the Union.

Of course this was a falsehood, and known to be a falsehood by those who gave it utterance; but the slaves who listened to these wild harangues from the furious pro-slavery demagogues, intending to embitter the masses of the Southern people against the people of the North, were not unwilling to give credence to a story so flattering to their hopes, and hence they have been prompted and encouraged to the attempts which have been so recently discovered and suppressed.

Who is to blame for the disasters from which the wives and daughters of the South have just barely escaped, by the timely, and we might also say, providential disclosures of the designs of the slaves? Undoubtedly the lying demagogues, who, for party purposes and for the sake of personal advancement, have gone about fulminating their falsehoods against all the people of the North, and have prompted and encouraged the slaves to revolt, which never would have been attempted, except for the hopes inspired of aid and assistance from the people of the North? Who is to be blamed for the gloom and apprehension which still broods over the South? and who has caused the embarrassment to the business of the people in the districts where these outbreaks have occurred? The answer is still the reckless and unprincipled demagogues who gave rise to the slavery agitation by the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, and who endeavored to justify this outrage by attributing to the people of the North, the design of abolishing slavery in the Southern States.
Who is to blame for the disasters from which the wives and daughters of the South have just barely escaped, by the timely, and we might also say, providential disclosures of the designs of the slaves? Undoubtedly the lying demagogues, who, for party purposes and for the sake of personal advancement, have gone about fulminating their falsehoods against all the people of the North, and have prompted and encouraged the slaves to revolt, which never would have been attempted, except for the hopes inspired of aid and assistance from the people of the North? Who is to be blamed for the gloom and apprehension which still broods over the South? and who has caused the embarrassment to the business of the people in the districts where these outbreaks have occurred? The answer is still the reckless and unprincipled demagogues who gave rise to the slavery agitation by the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, and who endeavored to justify this outrage by attributing to the people of the North, the design of abolishing slavery in the Southern States.