Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1822-09-07

tee would ianQ aM0 IaKestne OPPcS - UdIu.
house. 7 then said, then this thing seems
true. My man, said he, God has hand
10 il. ne have been meeting for fou, gears,
and are not yei betrayed. ] told him. !
was afraid, after all, Of the white people
from the back country and Virginia, &c.
He said that the blacks would collect so
numerous from the country, we need not
fear the whites from the other parts, tor
when we have once got the city we can
keep them all out. He asked. ii ! bad
told my boys. said no. Then, said he,
you should do it, for Ned Bennett has his
people pretty well ranged. But, said be,
take care and don't mention II TO those
waiting men who receive presents Of old
coats. &c. from their masters, or they'll
5etray US. will speak to them. We then
parted, and have not since conversed
with him. He said the rising was 10 take
place last Sunday night, l(l6th June)-
That any Of the colored people who said
a word about this matter would be killed
by the others. The fttie man. uho can't
be killed, shot or taken is named Jack, a
Gullah Negro. Peter, said there was a
French Company in town Of three hun.
dred men fully armed-that he was 10 see
Monday Cell, about e1pediting the rising.
| know that Mingo went often TO Mr..
Paul's to see Edwin, but don't know if be
spoke with William. Peter said he had
sword, and ought to get one. He said
he had got letter from the country; |
think from St. Thomas, from negro man
who belonged to the captain Of a militia
company. who said he could easily get
the key of the house where the company's
arms ere put after muster and take them
all out, and help in that way. This bust.
ness originates altogether with the .ffracan
Congregation, in which Peter is leader.
When Benefits Ned asked about those
taken up. he alluded particularly TO Mr..
Panfs William, and asked me ii | said
any thing TO him about it.
The voluntary confession Of RoLLA to The
Court, made after his trial, but before
sentence mas passed on ham.
know Denmark Vesey; on one occa.
sion be asked me, what news told him,
none. He replied, we are free, but the
white people here won't let US be so and
the only way is, TO rise up and fight the
whites. wenr 10 bis house one night, to
learn where the meetings were held. !
never conversed on this subject with Bat
teau or Ned. Vesey told me, be was the
leader in this plot. never conyersed Ell.
Their with Peter or Mingo. Vesey induced
me to join. When ] went 70 Vesey's
house, there was a meeting there the
room was full OF people but none of them
white. That night, at Vesey's, we de.
termined 10 have arms made, and each
man TO put iD twelve and half cents to-
wards that purpose. Tho Vesey's room
was full, did not know one individual
there. AT this meeting, Vesey said, we
were 10 take the guard-bouse and maya.
zines, to get arms; that We ought to rise
up against the whites to get our Liberties.
He was the first TO rise up and speak, and
be read to US from the bible, how the chl-
dren of Israel 1pere del,vered out Of Egypt
from bondage /; he said that the rising
would take place last Sunday night week,
(the 10th June! and that Peter Poyas was
one.
Examination Of SALLY. a n,gro uoman
belonging TO Mr.. alexander Houard,
know Jesse, and heard him speak Sc
veral times about il one day in particr-
lar he was anxious 10 see his brother, who |
has my mother for his wife, and waited
until he came, when they conversed toge- |
ther. Jesse said, he had got horse 10 go |
into the country, TO bring down men to |
fight The white people; that he was all
lowed to pass by two parties of the patrol
on the road, but that third party had
brought him back, and that, il there were
but FIVE men like him, they would destroy
the city. This was on last Sunday week,
(the 18th june he said. that before 8 o.
clock, that night, all the white people
would be killed or poisoned. He fire.
quently came into the yard TO- see bis bro.
Their, and threatened to inform, il he
came there, and spoke in that way, to get
us all into trouble. We never had any
quarrel,
Of LOT, negro man belong.
ing TO Mr.. Forester.
know Jesse; be met me last Sunday
week 18th June at the corner Of Boun-
dairy street, as was coming into town
ne said, he was going to get horse togo
nto the country. From what my master
old me the Thursday before, I distrusted
lis errand, and gave him a caution. When,
IS was going down into town towards
Mr.. Hibben's ferry slip, and conversing
With him, be said. you shall see 10 night,
when come down, what am going up
or, and # nay own father does not assist,
sill cut Off his head. He said, he was
,oiog as far as Goose Creek bridge, and
would get horse il it cost bin nine dol.
ars. The church bells were then ringing, ;;
md at half past eleven o'clock, same day,
aw him at Mr.. Towards, and afterwards
understood from Sally, that he had set of
or the country, and bad been brought
lack by the patrol.
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