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We of the South are emphatically surrounded by a dangerous class of beings--degraded, stupid savages--who, if they could but once entertain the idea that immediate and unconditional death would not be their portion, would re-enact the St. Domingo tragedy. But the consciousness, with all their stupidity, that a tenfold force, superior in discipline, if not in barbarity, would gather from the four corners of the United States and slaughter them, keeps them in subjection. But, to the non-slaveholding States, particularly, we are indebted for a permanent safeguard against insurrection. Without their assistance, the white population of the South would be too weak to quiet that insane desire for liberty which is ever ready to act itself out with every rational creature
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The Reference to St. Domingo refers to the slave rebellion in Haiti, the first major, and successful slave revolt in the Western Hemisphere. The revolution was characterized by the revenge taken against the former slave masters. Thomas Jefferson, then the President, refused to recognize the new government and actually boycotted it. He and most Americans at the time were fearful that a slave revolt in the U. S. would produce revenge attacks against former masters, and indeed the national government supported the slave owners in subjugating all attempted armed rebellion. This reached its zenith in the Federal troops putting down the John Brown attempted revolt at Harpers Ferry. Instead of the bloodshed of a slave revolt, America experienced the bloodshed of a Civil War.

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