The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-12-24
LATEST FROM THE SOUTH.
Full Details of the Negro
ton In Tennessee

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One of the editors of the New York
Courier DIES etats Unis, at this moment
in the country designated as the centre
Of a black conspiracy, sends to that pa
per the only reliable information which
has yet been received concerning the re-
ported insurrection. Under date of
Dover, Dec. I'd, he says:
The whole village is in q state of anx-
iety the white population is armed, and
I see children, who can scarcely carry a
gun and cartouch box, aiding to swell
the number. The cause of this is negro
conspiracy, and you will know of it long
before you receive this letter.
Before the only hotel in Dover, are
assembled excited groups of people, and
from among them, with revolver in hand
and rifle slung across the back, start off
frequently in all directions. Here also
meet from distant places, numerous
horsemen, whose animals covered with
foam, bear witness to the rapidity with
which they have travelled. In the hotel,
and in two or three neighboring houses,
the greater portion of the women and
children may be found. Here and there
the black servants obey with submission
and promptitude the different orders
given them.
A house, guarded by men with bayo-
nets fastened on the gun, enclose nine
black prisoners, who are threatened with
execution in a few hours. Nothing will
be done with FIVE, at least of them, but
as to the four others-the chisfs of the
conspiracy-they will iu>all probability.
become acquainted with the cord.
In the large building near the river,
some sixty blacks are imprisoned for be-
ing connected with the conspiracy. The
remainder, on the other hand are doing,
submissively, their ordinary work. The
same thing may be said of. all the neigh
boring localities.
This for the general aspect. And
now as to the causes that have given rise
to all this excitement. lis origin is traC
ed to the Presidential campaign.
Much weakened by distance, the echo
of the noise made In the north, abou,
the name of Fremont, has extended tc
the banks of the Cumberland. 1t cam
in the track of the steamers which trav-
j ersed the second tributary of the Ohio
and then found itself in the centre OF
Tennessee. To penetrate the most dis
tant villages, it had only to pass along
the gorges which separated these little
isolated mountains. Whether emissa
ries las they affirm here) came or no
from the north, it is nevertheless true
; that there have been certain Indication
of approaching revolt. According t,
some, it was to be general, and wouls
extend to all the slave States. Accor
, ding to others, it would simply be con
, fined to Kentucky and Tennessee. Thi
latter version appears to be true, and i
! is already more than necessary to exer
else an active surveillance.
Nevertheless, nothing Of a positiv'
nature had been discovered till abou
ten days since, when a negro escapes
from the Cumberland Iron Works. Ell
) was promptly captured, and it was learn
:, ed from him that he fed from the per
l secution of his brethren in servitude
, who had threatened to kill him'if he re
fused to take part in the conspiracy
. ne uuIuGTOu6 Qu6SOlOuo ~ WdiCA LO VIC
: = subjected, caused the subsequent arres
i of nearly 80 negroes, almost all of whot
: avowed their completely in a plot, an
| even gave the most precise details as t
the execution of their project. Nothin
: less was contemplated than a geners
|. massacre. The negroes of each habits
T ton intended, between the 23d and oct
of December, to slaughter the white
. who surrounded them, aud, this accom-
!, pllshed, to march to the chief place
the country, where the blacks woul
: generally assemble, and commence
J act.
s In many places the white is inferic
g in numbers to the black population, b,
they have added to their strength
; putting on a bold front and by punisl
Z ing the four principal conspirators who
I saw prisoners at Dover. This is a
that has passed up to the present tim
As to the rumors that may hay
! reached you about a negro killed by
G white man in a conflict, then a woma
killed by a black, and lastly a band
= 400 slaves devastating farms and slaug
x tering the inhabitants--there is no truI
9 in themwhatever.
. On the day after dec, 3D. fro
Clarksville, Tenn he writes as follow
j. The mines along the shores of Il
d Cumberland for a distance of about thi
e to miles, have suspended work. M
chine shops, occupying from $50 to q
d negroes, have only five or six whites
direct operations. This is the case
regard to the Cumberland Iron Work
of which I spoke yesterday. In the'
d localities, also, the panisis great. Thr
white free sellers have been arrested
Dover in the act of exciting q revoI
They were beaten, and were allowed
d teen hours to leave the County and thi
IS ty to go out of the State. A bla'
d preacher was arrested while d~sliverir
an abolition sermon. He forms one
the nine who were yesterday in Dove
OF these nine, five are not yet trie
.e The four others have been tried by are
ular tribunal, and were condemned to
b hung or Thursday, Tomorrow j but
on the announcement Of this sentence
band of blacks was organized for q re
cue, the four criminals were to be hui
last evening. The excitement viii,
' will naturally follow among the slav
is much dreaded. The women, and eh