Crisis of Fear: Secession in South Carolina by Steven A. Channing

    South Carolinians examined the raid as contrive of Northern Abolitionists and as only part of large scheme. Their doubts were enforced as they read bulletin items recounting the census numbers on Brown's charts? numbers which could have only arrive from some sort of governmental source. (Channing? p. 212-310) The raid was furthermore to blame for the formation of vigilance groups in which fundamental South Carolinians started expelling persons from groups founded solely on a Southerner's doubt that they were an abolitionist. (Channing? p. 140-147) These groups were subsequent reorganized by Barnwell Rhett to be just and contain equitable test for likely suspects. Everything the abolitionists stood for was covered up in one word: emancipation. This phrase dispatched chills down the spine of every South Carolinian. Slavery itself was glimpsed to give tone and feature to the South. (Channing? p. 110-198) The vigilance groups simmered down to be not anything more than the institutionalization of white man's fears. More than that? it was the back on which the South was built. To intimidate to abolish slavery was a risk to abolish the South as it was known. Emancipation would certainly convey about financial catastrophe in South without having much influenced on the North. Southerners glimpsed the crop of emancipation to be rebellion and rush conflicts as certainly the two rushes would assault over their communal and political places. (Channing? p. 35-51) The inquiry originated if or not the Union and slavery could co-exist and the response started to emerge more apparently to all that really they could not. (Channing? p. 10-25) It impersonated a risk to white political command which jeopardized the communal assurances of slavery: the assurance which insured that the Negro would not ever increase overhead any white man. ...