Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1856-12-18
Slave Rebellion In Tennessee.
Eleven Negroes lIung-Crcat TX
element and apprehension
Painted White Man, leader.

We clip from the Evansville Journal
Of Saturday morning the following sturt-
ling news of an extended servile insnr-
rection In Tennessee. and Efforts Of the
people TO suppress it. There have been
slave rebellions anticipated, and consid-
cradle excitemen, caused by the fear Of
them. in Kentucky. Arkansas. Missouri
and Tennessee, all within the past two
wesks, indicating singular coincidence
Of feeling and purpose among the slaves.
or an extension of conspiracy hardly less
singular:
We had very serious and alarming re-
ports i'm our city last evening from The
Cumberland river in regard 10 the move
ments of The blacks. and from all we have
heard. the excitement among the people,
through the m iddls district OF Tennessee,
is far greater and more general than We
supposed when we wrote the article in
another part OF this mornings sheet.--
Through what is called the Iron Distric;
on the Cum berland and Tennessee rivers
there are from s 600 TO 10 600 slaves
employ ed at the iron works: they are
there congregaiad in large numbers.
working in the various sbors of making
charcoal, digging ore. and tending the
furnaces. in gangs. mostly by themselves
with few whits for general overseers
There IRE many of these works situated
within d few miles of each other, and in
sections thai have few white inhabi
tants.
All these circumstances give the black:
great facilities to plot and combine fol-
insurrection, If the hellish spirit be ono,
awakened among them. There is now
conclusive evidence that such a spiri
/ has been at work in this iron region. snt
a plan has been set On foot for a genera
rising this Christmas. when they shall
have gained the unlimited freedom o
roaming and frolicking that is always
granted them during the holidays. A
/ gentleman who arrived last evening in.
forms US that at Dover on the Cumber
land they had obtained such evidence ..
left no dosb, Of wide Spread conspiracy
existing in that neighboshood, aud tia,
number of the ring leaders had beer
discovered and arrested; and that clever
OF them had been hung by the excited in.
habilaut<, and that among those arrested
was a person who had been in the neigh
borhood many months. who had AWAY
passed as negro; but on his arrest wa
found TO be white man. painted al,
disguised ss negro.
Our informant says. the people bein,
satisfied that he had bee1 the prime mo
yer and insiigator of the rtoellious de
signs OF the blacks, took him TO tn
woods. and BY the unanimous conde m
nation Of those present, he was sentences
10 receive nine hundred lashes; and tina
he expired before the penalty had beel
fully Inflicted. These occurrences la,
produced general CONSERVATION and ter
ror, and the women and children wer
fleeing and being sent of for ssiety. Til
men were nrming and organizing for de
fence. and the negroes were being con
fined OF kept under very vigilant watch
We detail these reports as they are rela
ted TO US on credible authority-hopin,
tho alarm is exaggernted, and the retribu
ton upon those arrested may not hav
been SO awful as stated.