The Yazoo Democrat. [volume] (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1858-18??, 1860-08-04
ynE ApoLtrloN PLor IN TEXAs.

We extract the following from letter tC
the Houston Telegraph, from Dallas, giving
further particulars s. the extensive Abolition
plot discovered there few Days ago, some
account Of which we have already given.
Fhe outhouses, granaries, oats and grain
of Mr.. Grill Miller were destroyed a few days
after the destruction of Dallas. This led to
the arrest of some white men whose limo,
ccnce, however, was proved beyond doubt
Several negroes belonging to Mr.. Miller were
taken up and examined, and developments
of the most startling character elected A
plot to destroy the country was revealed, and
every circumstance, even to the minuti@,
detailed. Nearly,or quite, hundred negroes
have been arrested, aud up6n close exam
nation, separate and apart from each other,
they deposed to the existence of plot or
conspiracy to lay waste the country by FIRE
and assassination-to impoyerish the land
by the destruction of the provisions, arms
and ammunition, and then, when in a state
of lpessness, general revolt Of the negroes
was to begin on the first Monday in August,
the day of election for State officers. This
conspiracy is aided and abetted by Abolition
emissares fro4 Tire NORTH and by those in
our midst
The details of the plot and its modts
operandi are these Each county in Northern
Texas has supervisor in the person of a
white man, whose name is not given each
county is laid off into districts urder the
sub agents of this william, who control the
action Of the negroes in the 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 burning homes. Ne
groes never before suspected, are implicated,
and theinsUrrectionary movement is wide
spread 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, the old
females to be slaughtered along with the
men, and the young and handsome women
to be parceled out amongst these infamous
scoundrels. Fhey had even gone SO far as
to designate their choice, aud certain ladies
had already been selected as the victims of
these misguided monsters
Fortunately, the country has been saved
from the accomplishment of these horrors +;
but then, a fearful duty remains for Us. The
negroes have been melted to these internal
by Abolitionists, and the en-
issaries of certain preachers who were ex,
PEELED from this county last year. Their
agents have been busy amongst US, and many
Of them have been in our midst. Some OF
them have been Unidentified, and have fed
from the country; others still remain, to
receive a fearful accountability from an put.
ragged and infuriated people. Nearly hun
bred negroes have testified that large rein
forcement of Abolitionists ore expected on
The Est Of August, and these to be aided by
recruits from che hdiansy while the Rangers
ire several hundred miles to the north Of
Is. It was desired to destroy Dallas, in
,rder that the arms and ammunition Of the
artillery company might share the same
ate.
Our jail is filed with the villains, many
# whom will be hung, and that very soon.
man was found hung at our lieighboring
;ity Of Fort Worth, two days ago, believed
% be one Of these scoundrels who are engae
yed in this work. We learn that he had