The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-12-01

witnesses swore that Peter Poyas said their plan was "a
fig the uAits ~ the English came to aelp Aem Harry
AID Jack told him the same thng-Ma the
In. isa were 10 come there 70 help tem that the Anser
car could do notairy against the English, and tas he
e.. fish woud carry them of to st. Domingo 1t appeared
on he confession Of Monday Cell that French assistance
wa also expected and that Frenchmen had joined. He
says
JOKE acknowledged to mo once or twice that had
joined, he said he knew some Of the Frenchmen con-
ed.
st. Domingo seemed TO be the model In all things OF the
conspra,ors. Cell again says
Galard is concerned be met on the day before the
Ms paper cds about the battle that Boyer had in S. Do
nngo in day two he called me and asked II had
read Il, and said he had many men he would do the
same thing too as he could whip ten white men hmceE
An unimpeached witness testified as follows
About the LIST Of June saw in the public papers a
statement that the white people going to build mis-
sonary houses for the blacks which carried and showed
TO Peter and said the good they going to do for
us; when he said what Of that Have you heard
that on the 4th of July the whites going create
false alarm Of fire, and every black that comes out will
DO killed in order to thin them2 DO you think they would
be so barbarous said ~ Yes, said he do fear they
have lnoeledes Of rising from San Domingo, and
they would be right TO do IT, to prevent joining that
army if it should march towards this land
As TO the numbers engaged and extent Of preparation
is in evidence thai around Goose Creek and Dorchester
alone, $500 had been enlisted in the dark enterprise
From another quarter 500 and unknown number from
He'll Hole swamp These numbers were enrolled the
books of the Society" they called their organization
The leaders coerced many into the movement under
threats Of DEATH either by poison before the nsurrecon
broke out, by public execution after. The fate
threatened to nformers On Saturday the l5h the
country negroes to rendezvous in the woods
Charleston. Those who had arms were to arm them
selves by breaking open the gun stores Charleston, Of
which the insurgents had list, with the number Of each
attached. With these they TO attack the arsendls
and hos set fire 10 the DWn in different places,
and cs the whites came out they ,cere to be sIin
There was deep cunningn this for said Peter Poyas f
we TO set fire to the town first the in the stee
pie would give the alarm too soon. II will be such a
dead time Of the night the whites won't know what is
the matter, and horse companies will 60 about the
streets and prevent them from assembling The blacks
to seize their masters horses we'll their fire.
They 10 put bali and three buckshot in
each cartridge. As religious anaticsm at the bot
tom OF the affair the mask Of religion to be used
TO further the design. "We will have prayer meetings
that ngAt," said Peter Poyas, "and there notify the
townpeope when to start and when the clock strikes
twelve all must more. God has hand in IL; hare bern
meeting for four years and hare not been betrayed "rhs
business, said one Of the witnesses, orginates altoge
Their with the African congregation in which Peter Is
leader and Rola in his Confession said Denmark vesey
at the meetings used TO read 10 them from the Bible hoo
the children Of Israel delired ont Of Egypt from
bondage.
When the first rising failed, the leaders who still
escaped arrest medtated second one, but found the
blacks cowed by the execution Of their associates and by
the vigilance of the Whites The 9th of July was fixed for
the second attempt The leaders waited they sad for
"the head man. who was a white man }" but they would
nofr hic Tha cfiuv IF tha Viu;lau
mce and the number of arrests they made completely
paralyzed the rebellion Upwards of sixty conspirators
were seized.
The Court proceeded to make distinction between
those who had been present the meetings at veseys
had aided and allotted in money and arms and those
who merely gave in their adhesion but did not attend
the meetings enlist others in the To the for
the sentence Of death was to be awarded; to the
latter, transportation beyond the limits Of the United
States
Among the number Of disposed of by the Court in
session Of nearly six weeks the Of Jack Pritchard
otherwise called Guah jack is Of the most in
terestng Born conju-er and physician in his own
country, Angola, in Guinea where they matters Of In
hertance he practsed these in the United States
without the fact being generally known among the
whites vesey who left no engines Of power untred,
turned his eye at early period this
mancer, aware Of his influence with his countrymen,
who are distinguished both for their creduous super
stiton and clannsh sympathies. Under Jack corps
Of these Guah Angola negroes organized whose
6eief in his inrtnerubuy that his charms and
anins IN great request and he regarded as
man who could not be harmed unless by the reachery
his fellows Even the negroes born in this country be-
eved in his charmed nvincbility Such was one of the
most important Of the instruments Of Denmark vesey
When Jack brought the scaod he discovered the
n,
fate with little rmness He hanged on the 18th Of
July. One Of the witnesses the trial testified of his
mposture in these Words
Jack Pritchard called on me- he s sometimes called
Gulah Jack; he gave dry food, consisting Of
parched corn and ground nuts and said eat that and
out and when join pass, put into your mouth
this crab claw, and yoa can't be wounded and said he
give the same to the rest Of my troops you drop the
large claw Out your mouth, then put In tue small one
Tom Russell, Jacks armorer who kept blacksmiths
shop, and manufactured pixies and spears very ap
proved model Polydore Faber another Guah native
Of Angola who provided the handles Of the pkes and
twenty Others were hanged the 26th Of July Among
this batch was Forester to whom the burning of the
city was confded; match rope found in situation
where he had secreted it. Hammett, another conspi-
raor was to have attacked gun store In Charleston in
which were five hundred stand Of arms.
The following table will exhibit at glance the whole
number Of persons arrested, and how they were dis
posed Of
Number Of prisoners executed ...,... IS
Respited till 25th Oat with view communication. IL
Sentenced to be transported by their owners, under
direction of the City Council. observation-disclosures. q
Sentenced to be transported beyond the limits Of the
Acquitted the propriety transportation suggested to
their owners, and those whose masters agreed to
transport them without trial .. q
Acquitted and discharged by the Court. ........ q
Discharged by the Committee Of Vigilance ...... Is
whole number arrested Observation-Disclosures. 131
Thus were the actors in this fearful tragedy disposed
Ola tragedy which tragic only to the actors them
selves, but which, they had only been successful would
have equaed the horrors of st. Domingo and surpassed
in atrocy the Indian massacre Of Wyoming and every
other deed Of darkness and blood perperaed on this
continent
Among the consprators brought 10 trial and con.
vicaon, the cases Of Glen, Billy Palmer and Jack
Purcell are distinguished for the sanctmonious hypo.
crisy they blended with their crime Glen was a