Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-02-19
Projected Negro Insurrcction.

,Siz Negroes Hung-One Waipped 10
Death-Others Under arrest.
The last number of the Canton (Trigg
Co, Ky-) Dispatch publishes the follow.
ing extracts from letter to a citizen Of
that place. The editor of the Dispatch
says that the writer is known in that COM
| munity as a gentleman of veracity, in
whose statements all confidence may be
placed.
PEMBROKE, Dec. I3, 1856.
Brother Henry:-I write this morning
with the hope of sending the letter to Hop
kinsville by hand. Last Wednesday week,
about IL o'clock, the news came here that
the negroes at the furnaces in Stewart CO.
had rebelIed, and that they had crossed the
Cumberland river and would attack Lafay-
ette that night, and with this came other
rumors from Dover. fixed up immedi-
ately and went 70 Lafayette that night
getting there about half an hour in the
night. The report l found to be false, but
the town was in state of perfect excite
ment upon the negro question. The citi-
zens had called together their most sub
stantial men, and formed committee, and
were engaged in the examination of the ne
groes. l was permitted to witness the in
vestigation, which was rather general and
indefinite, but others had told startling
facts in regard to the insurrection. Mr..
Rust, owing to the excitement, had adjourn
ed his school that morning.
Tuesday morning, + + + + l
went to Dover, and arrived there about 2
o'clock. The people had hung four negroes
that morning at IL o'clock, and two more
then in town to be hung. 1 got to the
place of execution in time to see the last
one 90 off. Of the six that were hung,
three were preachers. They were all prov
ed to be ringleaders. 1 learned that the
men at the forge were at work whipping
the truth out of their negroes, so rode
out there that night, and was up with them
all night. l never had such feelings in my
life. I saw a list of negroes that had been
whipped, and was told what they all had
stated, and then l heard the balance of
them examined-some taking five or six
hundred lashes before they would tell the
tale; but when they did tell it, it was the
same that all the others had told. Some
told the whole story without taking lash.
Those that were examined were not permit
ted to see these that were not; they were
kept entirely separate and a guard over
each. One of the negroes died at the forge
from whipping that night, several hours af-
ter the operation.
The substance of the testimony there
was, that Christmas eve night they were
all to rise. Old Hal, Ames, Anderson
Grey, and Ishmael, were to murder Parish,
the manager, and his family, except his
wife, and she, in future was to be the wife
of Ishmael. They were to kill young Pep
per next, (brother of Judge Pepper,) and
other whites that might be about the place.
They were then to meet the Mill negroes at
the Forks of the road at Pidgit's, near Long
Greek, and were to make joint charge
upon Dover; after they had cleaned up
Dover, and provided themselves with am
munition, they were to scatter out over the
country generally. At the Mill, the ne
groes, or rather Bob Murell, was to kill
George Lewis first, then Henry Erwin, and
then the balance indiscriminately. Lewis
and Erwin whipped Bob Morris to death.
At the old Dover furnace, Charles Napier
was to kill brother George first; Mat. Hut
son was to kill young Tom. Buckingham
next, and Bill Blair was to kill Edwin,
Georges son, and Henry and Willie Wy
nus, and then 90 to the Mill. Brother
George hung Charlie Napier one day about
12 o'clock, and let him hang till next day
about o'clock-26 hours.
We are not at work here to-day. We
have one negro in chains, and will hang
him l think, certain; if the committee will
not the community are determined to do
it. think we will have quite an exciting
time here before we get through with it
l have no doubt but that it is universal
thing all over the Southern States, and
that every negro fifteen years old, either
knows of it or is into it; and the most con-
fidential house servants are the ones that
are to be the most active in the destruction
of their own families. The negroes, every
where they are examined, all agree that the
men, women and children, are to be slain,
and that the young women are to be kept
as wives for themselves. and good many
of them about Dover and the furnaces
went so far as to select their future compan-
ions.
Harvey Nelson,* up to the time I left