Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1860-08-10
ROCKVILLE MARYLAND, FRIDAY MORNING. AUGUST TO- 1860
The Reported DiabOlical Plot in
Texas Further Particulars.

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We find in the Houston Telegraph a
letter dated Dallas, Texas, July 2ist,
giving the particulars of the plot said tc
have been concocted by abolitionists and
the slaves to devastate the whole Of
Northen Texas, and enter upon &C.
neral massacre Of the white population
The letter, after stating that the whole
affair was revealed by the arrest of seve-
raj negroes for firing houses, proceeds as
follows:
Nearly or quite hundred negroes
have been arrested, and upon close ex-
animation separate and apart from each
other, they deposed to the existenceAof a
! plot or conspiracy to lay waste the ronn-
| try by fire and assassination---toi mpoyer-
ish the land by the destruction os the
provisions, arms and ammunition, and
then, when in state of helplessness, a
general revolt of the negroes was to be-
gin on the LIST Monday in August, the
day of election for State officers. This
conspiracy is aided and abetted by aboli
ton emmissares from the North, and by
those in our midst. The details of the
plot. and its modus operandi, are these !:
Each county in Northern Texas has su-
peryisor in the person of a white man,
whose name is not given; each county
is laid off into districts under the sub
agents of this villain, who controls the
action of the negroes in said districts, by
whom the firing was to be done. Many
of our most prominent citizens were
singled out for assassination whenever
they made their escape from their burn
ing homes. Negroes never before sus-
pected are implicated, and the insurrec-
tionary movement is widespread to an
extent truly alarming. In some places
the plan was conceived in every form
shocking to the mind, and frightful in its
results. Poisoning was to be added,
and the old females to be slaughtered
along with the men, and the young and
handsome women to be parcelIed out
amongst these infamous scoundrels. -
They had even gone so far as to desig
nate their choice, and certain ladies had
already been selected as the victims Of
these misguided monsters. Fortunately,
the country has been saved from the &C.
complishment of these horrors but then
a fearful duty remains for us. The ne.
groes have been melted to these inferna
proceedings by aboitionists, and the
emmissaries of certain preachers wht
were expelled from this county last year
Their agents have been busy amongs
us, and many of them have been in GU
MIDST. SOME OF them nnve been identi
fed, but have fed from the country
others still remain TO receive fearful
accountability from an outraged aud in
furiated people. Nearly hundred nc
groes have testified that a large rein
forccment of abolitionists are expected OF
the LIST of August, and these to be aidec
by recruits from the Indian tribes, Will
the Rangers are several hundred miles T.
the north of us. 1t was desired to de
stroy Dallas, in order that the arms an,
ammunition Of the artillery compan,
might share the same fate. Our Jail i
filled with the villains, many of whom
/. will be hung, and that very soon. 4
man was found hung at our neighborini
city of Fort Worth, two days ago, be
lieved to be one of those scoundrels VIII,
are engaged in this work. We lear
That he had stored away a number o
rifles, and the day after he was hung
load Of six-shooters passed on to him
but we're Intercepted. He was betrayed
by one of the gang, and hence his plan
were thwarted. Many others will shar
his fate.