American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1822-09-20

they wont know what is the matter, and our horse
companies will go about the streets and prevent the
whites from assembling. ! asked him-where will
you get horses Why, said he, there many
butcher boys with horses and there are the livery
stables, where we have several candidates and the
waiting men. belonging to the white people of the
horse companies, will be told TO take away their
masters horses. He asked me if my master
not horseman / said yes Has he not got arms
in his house answered Yes Can't they be got
atl SAID Yes Then, said he. 1t is good to have
them II asked what was the plan Why, said he,
alter have taken The Arsenals and Guard Houses,
then we will set the town on fire in different places
and as the whites come out we will slay them. If
we would set fire TO the town FIRST, the man in the
stesple would give the alarm too soon | am the
lcap,ain said he, TO take the lower Guard House and
Arsenal But, replied, when you are coming up.
the sentinel will give the alarm. He said he would
advance little distance ahead and if he could only
lget grip at his throat he gone man, FOR his
Sword was very sharp; he had sharpened H. and
made il so sharp, it had cut his finger, which he
showed me. AS to the arsenal ON the Neck, he SAID
liz was gone as sure fate. Ned Bennett would
manage that with the people from the country, and
the peoplebe Hibbins' Ferry and Santee would
land and take the Upper Guard House then
said, then this thing seems true. My man. said hes
God has hand in it, we have ben meeting for lour
years, and are not yet betrayed. l told hin, was
afraid after ALL of the white people from the beck
country and Virginia. &c He said that the backs
would collect numerous from the count'1, we
need not fear the whites from the other psrts, for
when we had once got the city we could keep them
all out. He asked, if had told my boys said no~
Then, said he you should do il, for Ned Bennets
has his people pretty we'll ranged But, SAID hes
take care and don't mention it to those waiting men
who receive presents of old Coats SC. from their
masters, they'll betCay u.s. will speak to thems
\ We then parted, and have not since cnDversed
with him. He said therising was to take place last
Sunday night, 10th June)-that any OF the COLOUR
i ed people who said word about this matter would
be killed by the others. The little man, who can't
be killed, shot, or taken, is named Jack. Gullah
Negro. Peter said there was French company in
town of three hundred men fully armed-that he was
to see Monday Cell about expeditlng the rising. l
know that Mngo went often 10 Mr.. Paul's to see
Edwin, but don't know if he spoke with William
| Peter said he had sword, and ought to get one.
4 He said he had got letter from the country I
think from St. Thomas's, from negro man who
belonged TO the captain of militia company who
said he could easily get the key Of the house where
the company's arms were put after muster, and take
them all out, and help in that way. This business
Originates altogether with the African Congregation,
in which Peter is leader. When Benefits Ned
asked about those taken up, he alluded particularly
to MIR Pauls William, and asked me if l said any
thing to him about it.
The voluntary confession OF Rola to the court, made
after his trial! but before sentence was passed Ola
u him.
i know Denmark Vesey; on one occasion he ascs
led me what news ! told him none. He replied.
we are free, but the white people here won let us
be so and the only way is, to raise up and fight the
whites. went to his house night, to learn where
the meetings were held. never conversed on this
subject with Batteau or Ned. Vesey told me- he.
was the leader in this plot conversed eith-
II er with Peter or Mingo Vesey induced me to Join.
n When went to Vesey's house, there was neetirg
there the was full of people, but none OF them
. white. That night at Vesey's determined to
have arms made, and each man to put in twelve and
half cents towards that purpose. Though Vesey's
ii room was full, did not know individual there
n AT this meeting, Vesey said, we were to take the
:, guard house and magazines, to get arms that we
fought 10 raise up against the whites to get lib
critics. He the first to raise up and speak and he
read to US from the bible. how the children OF Is
rae were delivered out Of Egypt from bondage he
!, said that the rising would take place last Sunday
. night week, (the 10th Of June) and that Peter PoY-
/ as was one.
y Examination of Sally, negro woman belonging 70
v Mr.. Alexander Howard.
= know Jesse, and heard him speak several times
about it: one day, in particular, he anxious to
'lsee his brother who has my mother for his wife,
II and waited until he came, when they conversed to-
gether Jesse said, he had got horse TO go into the
country 10 bring down men to fight thew he people;
that he was allowed to pass by two parties oil the
patrol the road but that third party had brouehs
y him back, and that, if there but five men Ike
him. they would destroy the cY-This was on last
J Sunday week Ohe 10th OF June j he said that be-
r fore o'clock that night all the white people would
be killed that il any person Informed, or would rot
join in the fight. such person would be killed or
> poisoned. He frequently came into the yard see
hia and nd faI ht,f,.