Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1859-12-30
For the IntcllfgcnccrI
That Negro Imsurrcction In, uorr,oo,,
County.

For the IntGlltgcnccr.l
Thnt Negro Instlrrcction in Hurrtoo,
County.
SlIINNsToS, VA, Dec. 81. 1850
;. -HesSTs- Ed'fors:-Nly attention has hccu
Il Glrected to an editorial raraerarh IN
Eoopcr's Clarkshulg Register, of The }Gti,
inst, wherein the editor processes to ,r;vn
summary of the proceedings Of thc
county Court, then in session, in relation
10 what he terms ''lhc negro insurrcction
discovered last summer" Here is tl,c
article verbatim: '''N
The December term of our Countx.
court commenced its session on last Mon
gay The most important ease before il
was 'he negro insmrrHction discovered In,
summer. Lvvinia, tho negrcss who dis
closed the plot tn ermastcr, testified th.,
| inc fcvoITci'a and knives. in possession nf
/ tMe .t, negroes. were furnished !rY Solomon :
r!eming, ot Shinnstun. Mir. vlr,rin,,
| !" '"' ii"!i, John fortncy, and James james.
WHO 1t was supposed might know sum..
mug '''5"ut the matter, were SGnulouc,l rs
Witnesses. and all testified tiI:,t ti,,,,. ,,,.N
nothing about the ntf,ir. Sarah, the sIor,.
O. steven Allen, was discharged, tI.c
court being OF opinion that there WAS rot
SulhGlent evidence to convict her. Lew.
lne slave OF Joseph Cockcrcl, was bciny
t,,i 1Tiea "nen oGr paper went to press on
/. lh0rsd"y The story told by Lcvinia w;,,;
s" connected aud straightforward that Il
created the impression on the bvstnndc,s
'hat II was true. We will give the resui,
next week. '''
Ihcrc may be aacn in tho world who can
peat me above specimen Of garl!cd truth
out t."y would be hard TO find. Itspcrvrr-
s,o''s are us ingenious as It's implications
tre m"lcle"s. Let me disScct the nara
st"pH. piece hy piece, and cndcavOr To tIo
J"Tt |" IN" moral anatomy of both the
Hnn!eel an" ihe Editor OF Coopcr's Clalks-
'"i "a fftSt Sentence III tile paragraph is
correct; there was no need OF it being
"therw'Se The second while apparently
80, implies base talschood. The editor
speaks OF ',He negro insurrcct;nn." Win
luSt us much assurance as ii it were Il fact
':tt there Mas an insurrect;on ,.tiScoyer-
last summer. That there was no in
erection, nor any probability of one.
Wy man who listened 10 the evidence
N" the case before the County Court
Knows. as does the editor of COopcr's
finEShNrs RCq'stC'. The Witnesses be-
ann me court were the ncgrcsS Lcvinia.
TE;;r master, Mr.. Moses Jefferson Nixon.
Lcyyio; 1t appears was "di$clGsrd'' hy
;nn 10 her master last July. Accord
Nv II arrangement with the ncmrcss.
-, self 4 Jefferson Nixon concealed him
81 81 hctwce TO Overhcar the conversation
mt fcrrcd br and the old slave Lew, re-
~ ~ all tho which t-"Tinia. it appears, did
M m: ,Jc.,rrsobng. The master, MIR. Noses
IN tI,rrr vSaaxon, being convinced that
So l,i,.,ts t,lS, 0iabOlic8l plot among the
: TO-, tom free r., ztS1er their masters and cscope
'l;, rants ondsEnmcdiatcly sworc out var
men mi thetor days troops of horse
ve.G scourinpnnse OF the County. mind
The slaves Icountry, until nearly all
County were &c Northern end OF the
- An aticmnt wat led and lodged in Jail.
raj free hlacksn made to secure scyc-
,vho Levinia test them one Hence,
the insurrcctionis was to bc captain of
a: of II. and NOT cn4ut they getting wind
=! nd opinion of iusticining very exalted
.iy K made tracks for 4 Virginia Courts,
themselves in PEN soil ami landed
tigatiou hy the Court;ania. On invcs-
rcercss and her ma testimony of the
Sc became too uuwell tor who suddenly
b $50 connected and stEea. was found
all the blacks were disciorW"rd That
two referred to in the ced; except the
under consideration. TAI paragraph
- the ncgrcSs was broken SStfmHny OF
evidence of several witne!E hy the
a
,' me vcracity is unqucstioned fy, whose
master WAS not very grcatly5t OF the
ss, by his sudden illness TheRgthencd
ct unanimous i'll denial Of AnyS were
ot the affair The case canlewictEc
different sessions of Court nmdtt the
~. over from time to time, until ats lAld
sion they determined to be rid of ses-
ncgresS Lcvinih was once mOreGIhc
the witness stand on Tuesday tt to
inst.-it being about the twentieth !
IS that she had been before the courtae |
capacity Of witncsS,-0n tcStifirtlte |
ld and there for the first time that the Il |
vers and knives she had been dcscril |
as in II small red hox were exhibited
. her by Captain Hence, who informed /
- that they had boen procured for him bv
$. Fleming, Of Shinnston. My. Mo.
y Jefferson Nixon was called and in
tempting to describe to the Court the
q tcrvicw between the ncgrcss and the I
VI negro Lew, TO which he had listened,
again became drcNdfully sick, and swoc
!. ed and fell down. and was carried out
Nv. Court.
ork Such are the leading facts and fratu
nos of remarkable case, which the editor
cat Cooper's C!arkSJurg RSyi*te,', with an as
'slI- rance and unscrUpulOusncss unparallcl
G, thc terms ''thc negro instruction
in With respect to the rcvolYcrs and kni
aays of which have been speaking. and vii
'Ne arc alluded to in the third sentence of
:. paragraph now being dissccted, they W
Ts not brought into the court. us il NO
!. NATURALLY be supposed they would. III
ing were not exhibited in public They w
e, not even found. They were not SO m,
as even searched for. Straugcl Th
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