The Lambertville press. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1858-1???, 1859-10-27

Servih Instructions.

slaves dgalhst cur UoSEiiihtehl. II "ouid potso ~
undressing to review briefly the principal out
breaks of similar natures which have taken place
in this country.
In the year tai number of whites and ne
they had perpetrated in the city of New Y ork,
which at that time contained about 10 600 in
habitants. The crimes, among which was the
barning of the Governors house, which were
committed by the rebels were but initiatory
movements to general insurrection of the slaves
throughout the colonies, which by the prompt
interference of the authorizes was frustrated at
the outset 154 negroes and 90 whites were
arrested and tried. Seven negroes and three
whites escaped and were never heard from. VI
the negroes Ito were convicted or confessed
I3were burned at the stake, Is hanged, ana
70 transported to the West lndles vi the
whites two were convictad and hing in chains
with the negroes, two were pardoned and the
balance transported. Connected with this out
break is long catalogue of horrid butcheries
and murders truly appalling.
In1831, in the county of southampton, on
the southern borders of Virginia with Nat Turn
er at their head, band of insurgent slaves,
numbering in all $50, butchered whole families,
men, women, and children, while the able bodied
males were attending a camp meeting. This
insurrection was by far, the most dreadful which
ever transpired in this country, the whole num-
Der killed amounting to nearly 200. of which
number 60 were victims to the savage vengeance
of the Infatuated demons, the remainder the in
surgents We herewith publish short sketch
from the Norfolk Wing of August 80, 1881 -
1.-THE number of the insurrectionary negroes
has been greatly exaggerated but it is hardly
within the power of rumor itself to exaggerate
their atrocities whole families, father, mother,
daughter, sons, sucking babes and school chill
dren, were butchered by them, thrown into heaps,
and left to be devoured by hogs and dogs, or to
purify on the spot. A Mr. Levi Walters his
wife and ten children were murdered-he himself
was absent, but approaching while the dreadful
scene was acting, was perSued, and escaped with
difficulty into marsh How, or with whom the
insurrection originated is not certainly known
The prevalent belief is, that on Sunday the 14th
ult., at Barnes church, near the Cross KEYS, the
negroes, who were observed to be disorderly,
took offence at something, and that the plan was
conceived and matured in the course of the week.
Al Mr. Wellers' one child escaped from the
ruthless fangs Of these monsters by concealing
herself in the fire place, and another was found
alive who was badly wounded and left for dead
by them
Gen Epres who is in command of the troops,
reports under date of the 28th ult., that all the
insurgents except Nat Turner, the leader, had
either been taken or killed. On the goth Gen
Broadnax reports to the Governor that all was
quiet and free from visible marauders He thinks
all have been killed or taken except four or five.
He states that Nat, the rngleader who calls
himself general, and pretends to be a Baptist
preacher declares to his comrades that be is
commissioned by Jesus Christ, and proceeds I'M
der his inspired directions-that the late singu-
lar appearance of the sun was the sign for him
He is not taken, and the account of his being
killed at the affair of the bridge is not correct
The General thinks that there has existed no
general concert among the slaves-circumstance
impossible to have been feigned demonstrate
the entire ignorance on the subject of all the
slaves in the counties around Southampton,
among whom he has never known more perfect
order and quiet to prevail He believes that
at any time twenty resolute men could have put
them down'n
Numerous instructions have taken place at
different times and in different localities, the only
object of which, however, was plumber The
most extensive of these conflicts transpired in
1885, and under the guise of freeing slaves from
bondage, thereby bringing into the movement
rich and aristocratic men throughout the South
ern States, the Williams carried on their nefarious
schemes. Murrell, the highwayman, miscreant
and desperado was the leading spirit in this pill
loge Instruction
In the year 1856 the abolitionsts and fanatics
of the North were considerably startled by the
reports of conflict going on between the whites
and blacks This, however, like the affair in
1885, had for its object plumber Many black s
were arrested and punished, and several whites
were shot for their alleged concert in the mat
ter
The last, though not least, of these outbreaks.
transpired during the past week at Harpers Fer
~, in Virginia, under the immediate control of
John Ossawattomie Brown, alias William Smith.
of Kansas notoriety, (whose history we give in
another column