New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-12-12

asinstiOn too all sgog, and they speedily show them'
selves in point Of credulty not whit behind the
Degroes Indeed, as fesr is still more inventive
thsn hope they quite Guido the negroes in point Of
invention. 10 this, for sugf that appears, harm
less dream Of the negroes, they sdd al the CON-
monpaces Of negro instruction the rcidents OF
which are as well fixed and established in the
Southern imagination, as among US those Of any
conmoD-run play or novel. The white men on
each plantation are to be murdered and the
white women ravsged, and the brains Of the
children beat out, which measure accomplished
the negroes are TO collect at the chief town OF
the county with q view to Interior measures.
Nor is this by any means thing confined to The
neiehbOrhood Of the Tennessee Iron Works. Not
at all. That would not be half frishtful enough.
There is Nc use doing things by haves-esst OF all
when you have unlimited creduity to draw upon
What is easier than to whip a negro into confess
ing whatever you desire The plot, as certain
negroes after being duly whipped confess, embraces
the whole Of Tennessee and Kentucky; nay more,
it extends down the Mississippi, and the slaves OF
Louisiana are parties to it,
The correspondent of the Courier, on his arrival
at Dover, the shire town Of Stewart County, found
all the people there in the very psrOIysm Of terror
All the white population was armed from head TO
foot even small boys staggering under the weight
Of guns and accouterments too heavy for their
strength. Men Oh horseback their horses allioam,
came riding in from all directions. All the women
and children were collected in two three fOrtihed
houses, and the number was constantly increased
by others brought in from the neighborbood. Nine
back prisoners were guarded in house by them
selves, of whom four or FIVE were shortly to be
hdpged.
At Cumberland Iron Works, where the boat
next touched, the same state Of terror prevailed
Sixty slaves, shut up in great building, were
being whipped for their share in the conspiracy,
While other slaves, as had been the case at Dover,
perform their ordinary services with submission
and alacrity. In spite of numerous reports circu-
lated to the contrary, not single act Of resistance
to authority, so far as the correspondent Of the
Courier could ascertain, had anywhere occurred on
the part of the slaves, except that number Of
them, alarmed at the fury of the whites, had taken
TO the woods and attempted to escape or to conceal
themselves.
Such appears to be about the whole of this alarm
ing plot-except indeed, the usual accompaniment
of the murder of number Of slaves and the whip
ping and banishing of three or four white men.
This plot, indeed, seems very much of sort with
tina. mythical invasion of Kansas by Lane and
cbimerical army from Nebraska, which so lately
stirred up all Western Missouri to riot and murder,
which even plodding Marcy seems to have believed
in, which figures in the Presidents Message, and
which long KEEP. Gov. Geary in state of high ner-
vous agitation. Lanes army and this Tennessee
negro plot might, indeed serve to show how, in the
sffsirs of this world fables become very serious
realities.