An Insurrection Without Negroes

Like all men of his order, he assumed as a fundamental fact that all the negroes of the South were groaning in servitude, and only wanting an invitation to throw off their shackles and declare for liberty or death. It is upon this assumption -- to the proof of whose falsity they refuse to listen -- that all Abolition, Anti-slavery and Freesoil operations are based, from such insurrections as that of BROWN to the inflammatory and equally wicked harangues of BEECHER, WHEELOCK, PHILLIPS and EMERSON, and the milder but not less insidious adjurations of GREELEY, GIDDINGS, SEWARD, CHASE, and their associates and collaborators. What reply the subordinate made to his commander on the production of this charge does not appear, nor is it of much importance. There is, however, one thing in the circumstances that is not without significance-the admission, by the leader of the movement, that the negroes of Virginia are not insurrectionally inclined.