Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1841-08-17
From the Crescent City.
ATTEMPTED INsURRECTIoN :

ATTEMPTED lNSURRECTION.s =
Negyos about TO rise-Almost epfry Ne,
gro in LOaisiaaa and Mississippi con-
cerned in the plOt!!!---ProridentiGl
trustrdtiOn Of Abolition plans, &c.
In the steamboat Clipper, Capt. Lau-
reat which arrived here yesterday from
Bayou Sara, we have received informa-
lion of an attempted insurrection among
the negroes along the whole length of
the coast. By a direct interposition of
Providence, it would seem, this terrible
catastrophe has been warded of, and the
lives perhaps ofthOusands Of our citizens
protec'ed.
A few days ago, the overseer upon the
plantation of Mr., Borile Barry, near Ba-
you Sara, in East Felaciana, after the
slaves had retired TO rest, had occasion to
walk around the quarters to sea if all was
right. Hearing a low murmuring in one
of the cabins. he crept round at the back
aud listened TO the conversation. What
was his aslonishment when he heard the
negroes discussing an attempted insur-
reclion! lie staid long enough to learn
what was conlemplated--when the terri
BILE havoc was to commence, and then
Immediately informed the owner Of the
slaves Of their intended project, and in a
lew moments, the white persons about
The establishment armed themselves and
arrested every suspected scoundrol on
the plantation. BY dint of threat and
punishment, the negroes confessed the
whole plan; and gave sufficient iniorma.
ton TO implcate = number Of others in
The neighborhood, among them WHITE.
MAN, mechanic employed upon the plan.
lallon, who was TO take conspicuous
part in the awful butchery Of his own
class and color!
On the lst Of August, the negroes
throughout the whole of Louisiana
and Mississippi were to raise and declare
themselves Tree. Millions Of property
aud thousands Of lives were to be destroy
ed, masters were 10 become slaves, and
slaves masters! 1t was to commence al
a season too, when we least expected il a.,
for in The month of August none bui resi-
dents ofthe south remain at home, and
aided by the loss of numbers, and the las.
silude Of the climate. in the white man
the spirit Of activity would be lost, and
the field entirely open and unobsirucled
TO tho negro, for scene which in blood
might rival the guillOline DAYS ofFrance,
or the purple tide which flowed in the
birth Of our own republic!
Expresses were instantly sent around
to the different plantations, and the white
inhabitants, 10 the number Of two hun
dred, formed themselves into body and
secured the country. Nearly one hun
dred negroes have been taken and inn
prsoned. Their trials we're 10 have ta-
ken place yesterday at 10 o'clock. Al
though many ofthose arrested, we're oc-
cuped on plantations miles aud miles
apart from each other, still each slave be-
/ ing separately questioned, corrobOrated
+ and confessed precisely the same in de-
tail, as the 6rst ones made prisoners!
Arrests have also been made among the
slaves IN the vicinity Of WoOdsille. So
much unanlniiy prevailed among the
slaves that 400 Of them on one plantation
in Feliciana, were said'to be in the CON
spiracy.
It appears 10 have been aregularly or