The Charleston Advocate

Insurrections.

General Fisk has the following on the subject of Southern insurrections:

After the close of the war, our Southern friends became very much excited on the subject of insurrections. They said, "The darkies are going to rise up and cut our throats; they are going to burn our houses, and kill our wives and children." General Fisk proceeded to say that fifteen months ago the President of the United States sent him a confidential dispatch requesting him to make a thorough investigation into the alleged rumors of insurrection, which he did, and afterwards informed the President that there was no foundation for the rumors. There was one colored Methodist in Northern Mississippi, however, who informed him (General Fisk) that there was a negro in a certain county who did preach "insurrection." He (General Fisk) took a long journey through plantations until he finally reached the cabin of this old man. He was a cooper by trade, and when General Fisk arrived he was taking thick shavings. He didn't look at all like an "insurrecter."

"Uncle Job," said General Fisk, "they tell me that you are a fomenter of discord, that you are inviting the negroes to insurrection to cut and slay their old masters. I want to know what 'insurrection' means." When asked what it meant, he said, "oh, Mass.! I'll tell you I don't preach insurrections, preaches nothing but insurrection."

The old man remained a day or two in the neighborhood, and found he was preaching the revolution of industry. New fences, and new houses, and on the Sabbath he also preached to them the resurrection and life everlasting.