Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1860-08-11
antei9ente, A0uertising Gitrrare, Aloraitp 19rl(1
The Reported DiabOlical Plot in Texas
Further Particulars.

We find i'll the Houston Telegraph,
letter dated Dallas, Texas, July 2lst,
giving some further particulars of the plot
said TO have been concocied by abolition
lists and the slaves to devastale the whole
uf Northern Texas, and enter upon a
general massacre of the white population.
The letter, after stating hat the whole af-
fair was revealed by The arrest of several
negroes for firing houses, proceeds as fol-
lows:
Nearly or quite hundred negroes have
been arrested, and upon close examina-
ZION separate and apart from each other.
they deposed to the existence of plot or
conspiracy 10 lay waste the country by
fire and assassination-to impoverish the
land by the destruction of the provision,
arms and ammunition, and then, when in
a state o! hel pIessness, general revolt of
the negroes was TO begin on the lst
Monday in August, the day Of the e. &C.
ton for State officers. This conspiracy
IS aided and abeued by abolition emissa-
ries from the North, and by those IN our
midst. The details Of the plot, and its
modus operandi, are these: Each coun-
ty in Northern Texas has supervisor 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 viii
lain, who controls the action Of the negroes
in said districts. by whom the fling was
to be done. Many Of our most promi-
nent citizens were sing led out for assassl-
nation whenever they made their escape
from their burning homes. Negroes new
er before suspected are implicated, and
the insurreclionary movement is wide
spread TO an extent truly alarming. In
some places the plan was conceived IN
every form shocking TO the mind, and
| frightlul in lis results. Poisoning was TO
be added and the old females to be slaugh-
tered along with the men, and the young
handsome women to be parceIed out
amongst these Infamous scoundrels.
They had even gone so far as to designate
their choice, and certain ladies had alrea-
DIV been selected as the victims Of these
misguided monsters. Fortunately, the
country has been saved from the ac-
complishment Of these horrors; but then
fearful duty remains for US. The negroes
have been melted TO these internal pro-
ceedings by abolilionists, and the emissa'
res of certain preachers who were expeI-
led 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 identified, but
have fled from the country; Others still re-
main to receive a fearful accountability
from an outraged and in(urIaled people.
Nearly hundred negroes have testified
that large reinforcement Of aboIitionists
are expected on the lst of August, and
these 10 be aided by recruits from the H.
dian tribes, while tie Rangers are several
hundred miles TO the north of US. Ii was
desired to destroy Dallas, in order that the
arms and ammunition Of the artillery COM
pany might share the same fate. Our
ail is filed with the villains, many of
whom will be hung, and that very soon.
man was found Lung at our neighborIng
city of Fort Worth, two days ago, beIiev-
ed TO be one Of those scnundrels who are
engaged in this work. We learn that he
had stored away number of rifles, and
the day after he was hung load of six
shooters passed on 10 him, but were inter.
cepted. He was betrayed by one of the
gang, and hence his plans were thwarIed.
Many others will share his fate.