Boston (MA) Liberator, "Insubordination of Negroes," October 1, 1852

               From the Carolina Spartan.

       INSUBORDINATION OF NEGROES.

   We perceive by the Virginia papers, that, within [illegible] three months, a greater degree of insolence and resistance has been manifested by the negroes in [that] portion of the State, to the authority of their [illegible] than ever known before. The negroes [illegible] their masters and overseers, when anything [illegible] [illegible] with them; and in the settlement of the [illegible], such is the laxity of punishment generally,that the negroes are often the victors. The Fredericksburg Va. Herald says it knows of several instances [illegible] [illegible] had referred to. Some negroes will not be [illegible] by their owners, and go so far as to resist [illegible] punishment from that quarter. The servants in [illegible] teach their children that the relative [illegible] of Maser and slave does not of right exist, and that henceforth the word Mister is to be used instead of Master; and instead of addressing them [illegible] heretofore known as father and mother [illegible] the blacks, require their children to call them [illegible]. This is no great thing in itself; but it [illegible] of the times, and shows conclusively, that [illegible] of progress, the negroes are making progress. The same paper says that it is now a [illegible] [illegible] as to which color shall use the side-[illegible] give way. We also learn from our [illegible] that in the border States, there is very [illegible] a stampede among the negroes--large [illegible] going off together.

   [Illegible] in the name of common sense, a common [illegible] and a common fate, how can the people of the Southern States be so blind as not to see that this [illegible] insubordination of the slaves is one of the [illegible] of the existing Union of slaveholding and non-slaveholding States? A Union of those [illegible] [illegible] and live by slavery, with those who hate [illegible] it--yes, a Union of those who would fight [illegible] with those who would, and are now fighting [illegible]. To us it seems that the Union, so far [illegible] very desirable, has now become unsafe, un[illegible], and dishonorable; and in the end, will be [illegible] to the institution of slavery. We value [illegible] more than we do the Union, and in choosing we [illegible] in the settlement of this question, [illegible] prefer a Northern man to a negro. Viewing [illegible] then as we do--the very essence of our social and civil life; and looking upon the [illegible] the hateful instrument of its final overthrow, [illegible]––we believe it would be to the best [illegible] of the South, to dissolve their existing connection with the North. And the sooner the better.