"In such a state of things, suppose an insurrection of the slaves to take place. The master has become timid and fearful, the slave bold and daring--the white men, overpowered with a sense of superior numbers on the part of the slaves, cannot be embodied together; _every man must guard his own hearth and fireside_. No man would even dare for an hour to leave his own habitation; if he did, he would expect on his return to find his wife and children massacred. But the slaves, with but little more than the shadow of opposition before them, armed with the consciousness of superior force and superior numbers on their side, animated with the hope of liberty, and maddened with the spirit of revenge, embody themselves in every neighborhood, and furiously march over the country, visiting every neighborhood with all the horrors of civil war and bloodshed. And thus the yoke would be transferred from the black to the white man, and the master fall a bleeding victim to his own slave." Such are the terrific visions which are constantly presenting themselves to the affrighted imaginations of the slaveholders; such the character which, _among themselves_, they attribute to their own domestics. Attend to one more, and that one an extraordinary confession: "We, of the South, are emphatically surrounded by a dangerous class of beings--degraded and stupid savages, who, if they could but once entertain the idea, that immediate and unconditional death would not be their portion, would re-act the St. Domingo tragedy. But a consciousness, with all their stupidity, that a ten-fold 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, are we indebted for a permanent safeguard against insurrection. Without their assistance, the white population of the South would be _too weak_ to quiet the innate desire for liberty, which is ever ready to act itself out with every rational creature."--_Maysville Intelligencer._ And now we ask you, fellow-citizens, if all these declarations and confessions be true--and who can doubt it--what must be your inevitable condition, should your soil be invaded by a foreign foe, bearing the standard of EMANCIPATION? In perfect accordance with the above confession, that to the non-slaveholding States the South is indebted for a permanent safeguard against insurrection, Mr. Underwood, of Kentucky, uttered these pregnant words in a debate, in 1842, in Congress, "THE DISSOLUTION OF THE UNION WILL BE THE DISSOLUTION OF SLAVERY." The action of the Federal Government is, we know, controlled by the slave interest; and what testimony does that action bear to the military weakness of the South? Let the reports of its high functionaries answer.