Litchfield enquirer., 1831-09-15

them to believe there were only SO,OOO whites ( in the country, who being exterminated, the t blacks might take possession. Various of his a tricks to acquirs and preserve influence have q been mentioned, but they are net worth re- [ beating. lf there was any uIteriOr purpose, he probably alone knows it. For our own { part, we still believe there was none; and iC | he be the intelligent man represented, we are incapable Of cOnceiving the arguments by which he persuaded his own mind of the fea sibiIity of his attempt, or how it could pOssi- bIy end but in certain destruction. We therefore incline to the belief that he acted upon ID higher principle than the impulse of revenge against the whites, as the enslaN CTS of himself and his race that being fanatic. he possibly persuaded himself that Heaven would interfere and that he may have con vinced himself, as he certainly did his delud- l ed folio Xers to some extent, that the appear | ance of the sun some weeks ago, prOgnOstl- l cated something favorable to their cause. We are inclined to think that the solar phenomen- | on exercised considerable influence in promo | ting the insurrection; calculated as it was to impress the imagination of the ignorant.
 more important inquiry yremains-wheth- | CT t!ic conspiracy was circumsc:ibed tO the peigbborhood in which it broke out, or had its ramifcatiOns through other counties. We, at first, adopted the first opinion; but there are several circumstances which favor the ht- ter. We understand that the confessions of all the prisoners, go to show that the Insur- rection broke out too soon, as it IS supposed, in consequence of the last day of July being a
 Sunday, and not as the negroes in SONthamp-
 ton believed the Saturday before. The re-
 port is that the rising was fixed for the fourth
 Sunday in August, and that suppNsing Sun
 day, the 31st July, to be the first Sunday in
 August, they were betrayed into the error of
 considering the Sd Sunday as the 4th. This is the popular impression founded upon con- | fessions upon the indications of an intention | of the negroes in Nansemond, and other pla-
 ces to unite, and upon the allegation that Gen.
 Nat extended his preaching excursions to Pe-
 tersburg and this city allegations which we
 however, disbelieve. 1t is more than proba-
 ble nevertheless, that the mischief was con- certed and concocted under the cloak of reli- zion. The trials which are now proceeding or impending in Southampton, Nansemond, Sussex and elsewhere, will develope the truth.
 We suspect this truth will turn out to be that
 the conspiracy was confined to Southampton, and that the idea of its extensiveness originat-
 ed in the panic which seized upon the South
 East of Virginia.
 Such we believe to be summary outline
 of the Southampton insurrectOn. That in-
 surrection reads some salutary lessons to
 the whites, the propriety of incessant vigil
 ance to the blacks, the madness of all at-
 tempts such as that in Southampton. A few lives they may indeed sacrifice, but possession
 of the country even for week, is the mos,
 chimerical of all notions. We assert conf dently that 20 armed whites would put to the
 route the whole negro population of South.
 ampton, and we repeat our persuasion, thai . another insurrection will be followed by put. tinr the whole race to the sword,
 We regret to be under the necessity of ad B verting to any disagreeable circumstance con ', nected with the expedition of the Richmond
 conduct of one daggqR}tsesn and h xh. .i 5 receive at our hands, tAe exposure and the chastisement, which in the opinion of all who have heard it, it most richly deserves. On Thursday morning the 25th, we arrived a, Jerusalem, and took up our quarters at inc Z tavern of MT. Henry B. Vaughan. This in- dividual was the brother-i law of Mrs. Vaug. han, whose melancholy fate and that of her family IS noticed above. He had no family. and was wealthy. Under these circumstan. n. ces, good feeling would have suggested the propriety of his charging no more than would 'ndemn'ty him: base and sord,d love of Pe''' could alone have prompted the idea of tended our own horses. with little aid from his servants; did not sleep in his house :: were
 furnished with the coarscst, and Sometimes
 stinkng fare; many neither ate nor drank at
 his table, but were entertained by the hospi :
 ta''ty Of the inhabitants; detachments were
 absent on several occasions; and the troops
 left on "Wednesday, making the time less tha n
 five days. ltwill excite astonishment to learn
 that for this time, with this accommodation. ana under all the circumstances of the case.
 ihe landlord produced bill exceeding $500 To state the fact, is to inflict on him, the SC. verest punishment, the indignation of the public.
 GREAT HURRlCANE-BARBADOEs IN RUINS. IMMENSE Loss%oF LIvEs
 From the Bor6adoes MercHry Ertra, Aug.S.
 On Wednesday evening, the 10th, about 6 Q e'oek; the wind very fresh at North, the clouds began to collect in thick masses in inc N. E. passing away in scuds, as fast as they collected, with rapidity of motion almn:,