Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-08-09
= r,ts Insurrectionary Movement in Texas.

r1,r>roS, TEXAS. July 2S, lS0O.-An IN
lotion, to which 1.-The Harper's Ferry
'" "a. was a trihe. has just been discovered
!a'r .be upper counties, comprising Dallas,
~ ,n =" Collin, Tarrant, and, in fact, nearly
h - me upper counties The plan was, first
~ the torch, to lay waste all the stores and
D., ,ras in .hose counties, which was done by
I %" nsrroes at the inStigation and by the AS
w "',ar,., Of some abolition enlssaries-they
s'~,Icing the negroes with all the necessary
ELEMENTS and convenlences TO make the
'trk sure, and by this means. as they
,E,nght, 10 empoverlsh the country. BY the
t' INV r. August, this part Of the work was to
n ', baen accomplished, and so we'll have
nav" ,''. ,..rreded. that they, simultaneously,
'1V; -, h,ur of /! p. NJ, on Sunday, July
~ ~, sred Dallas, Denton, Belknup, Waxa-
Nh hi = PHO, Point, Milford, and L number
10 -, ,Ssr towns and stores. The three first
al ''' ,rtolIv DESTROYED Of them flourish
;n,, country towns.
M u.v,harh was at the same time fired,
.I,a fr4 was extinguished. 1t has since
~" "sn ~ burned, ana daily reports come in of
's' ,bar town destroyed, and some other store
s"r,l with all its contents.
'' VIII after the conhagratlons, (the plan
election day, the first Monday in Au-
w. W., rbr .bolitonist~, aided by some Indian
5":, ,,..ya Ia attack the men while 1T the
n,us and the negroes were 10 stay ut home
PP,I kin the old woman and children, and
.,,.. the voung girls and pretty women for
49,. base purposes of those hellish villains.
Sn,h wa their plot; but, thanks TO the
,.l,iver Of all Good :" their plans were dis
.,rartd and partly frustrated. 81 many
,;ras occurring simultaneously, could but
.,,,,,. Suspicion, and the Inhabitants natur-
.Ily looked .round 10 see whence such 4
..,Iamiry could come. Some negroes beng
.,snertra we're arrested and examined sepa-
r,ralv and unknown 70 each other, and they
IN rtH the same tale. and that led to the
'rr..t Of one hundred of them. They all
,,,r.a a. the same tale, - there must be
,ruth in it: but the fact that these towns are
,II burned by incendIary hands, leaves not
.loi,v If doubt One white man has been
huos at Fort Worth, and the probability Is
rtat more have, ere this, paid the penalty OF
,h..;r narricipatun in this tlendish crime
The citizens are wrought up u = terrible
state Of feeling, and will punish NIL upon
whom they can fix the guilt OF participating
IN this internal plot. Private advlces say
that they all 60 fully armed day aud night,
nranarei for the worst. and determined not
to give one inch, but die in defence OF their
ylgbt< and the Tires amt honor OF their wives
and daughters. mothers and sisters. 1t ~
said that the election day was chosen, be-
cause che Rangers are 300 or 100 miles on.
On the frontiers. after the Indians. and could
not assist the private citizens. The cause
of Dallas being the centre "t these opera
tons, IS supposed to he that there were two
sbolitionists logged last Fall for refusing to
leave the country when warned, after preach
ing iucendiarv doctrines to the negroes On
their return to their native States. they peti-
toned thcir several Legislatures TO demand
redress from Texas; which not being done,
they. it appears, are taking revenge. We
have already received accounts Of the deS-
yruction Of over thrce-quartcrs OF million
Of property, and where ii would have ended
but for the discovery, no one can teil.--CwT.
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