New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-09-07

Dallas was burnt up, is probably true. But tnis
occurred, it will be observed, as early as TIE ON
Of July, and the telegraphic dispatch, which sent
| the intelligence, goes on to say that other
| eres are reported to have occurred on the same
(. day " at Blackjack Grove, Denton Pilot Pont
Ladonia, Belknap Milford, and several other
places, the aggregate loss Of all which exceeded
100000 Subsequently other fires and incendiary
attempts were reported, but all, except perhaps,
n corAapration in the town of Henderson, rest on
no better authority than the it is said, or sit is
reported. the mere rumor, In short, OF distant
newspapers. Unsupported assertions have been
plentiful from time to time, where facts, accurate
and carefully verified, were specially needed
"a plot was discovered to burn the town OF
Sulphur Springs. Dangerfeld, in Titus County,
was reported as added to the list of those laid
in ashes A discovery was made of design
upon Rusk Cherokee County, the particulars OF
which had not been received" A gentleman
SO lust dow from Waxahachie informed an ed-
tor that it was reported there that Tyler, 10 Smith
4" County, and Mckinney, in Collin County, had
GO been burned" And it seems" continues the
journal, "that as fast as the fire is put out in one
town il is k.Ddled in another, and no day passes
but that the fan es are rising in some portion OF
" the State, kindled by the torches of Abolition
Glenn" ...............
Such are said to be the fruits of this diabolical
plot and, having 80 much, we naturally expect
much more. An instruction ripe enough TO have
advanced to conhagratitn all over State-well Or
ganized enough to do all this with IMMUNITY -may
well excite that worst Of all panics to which we
lust row referred, and must be advancing 10 other
WAYS TO some final contamination. We have che
fres-where are the incendiariesl We have the
nsurrection-where are the insurgents There
should be by this time some appalling accounts of
fends in human shape desolatiDg peaceful homes;
of armed bands of blacks thirsting for blood
and furious with passion; Of slaughtered men,
of rayishtd women, and murdered children.
What have we The Cameron Sentinel announces
that up to the 10th of August the patrol of that
town had found in the hands of the negroes four
guns, one pistol, aud dirk knife. Excepting this
formidable report, and one other incidental
statement, founded like everything else upon ru-
NOR we have looked in vain to find any account OF
other arms in the hands Of the supposed insur.
gents. Another statement We may except, which
was that at AtheIs, Henderson County, the slaves
were found TO have one hundred bottles of strych-
| nipe, with which to poison the people, "and then
| the knife and the pistol with which they were
swell supplied" Without arms there can have
been 10 aiming, for, setting aside this last story
as wanting in detail, four gu1s one pistol, and
dkknfe is an iDsrrectionary stock in trade
which even Mr.. Barnums "What is i. 2" would
be too wise to start in business with.
That any negroes have publicly banded together;
that any murders have been committed by them;
that there has been anywhere any symptom of vi
oleDce or outbreak or even any rurnors of such vi
olenee, other than the alleged 6res that any of
them have armed with murderous intent;-fOr any
of these things there is not the slightest evidence Of
weight enough to make it appear even in Texas
| newspaper. The conductors of those sheets, and
their informants, exhaust their powers of inven-
tion in the stories of confagration. For
these, with two or three exceptions, are
reported solely upon rumOr. The story of the
strychnne, one would thipk would have destroyed
the credulity of the most alarmed hundred
bottles of this deadly poison, grain OF which any
man however trustworthy and respectable he
may seem to be, would find it difficult to purchase
of any druggist in this city hundred bottles in
the hands Of negroes in asmal and obscure frontier
| village in Texas, all of whose inhabitants, no
doubt, could be dsp ,sed of by vial full Indeed,
we are not sure that this preposterous statement
may not yet suppress the insurrecton, for some of
the 1exss journals are already beginning to hint
that there has been no such thing as plot in the
State
That there has been panic there can be no
doubt, nor has it been with ut purpose with
out results. In the telegraphic dispatch which
brought the first intelligence in regard to it, it was
stated that the "AbclitiOu preachers Blunt and
Mckinney, who were expelled from the country
"lbst year, were the instgators." But these men
| left church behind them and the enemies of
Blunt ard Mckinney were also it's enemies. 1t
vas determined, 80 we are informed, that the
Methodist Church North should have no abiding
place in Texas, and il its members could not like
Blunt and Mckinney, be expelled, theycoud be muir
dered. How many have been hanged we know not,
but on this point the Texas prints speak positively
AID announce the murder, at different places, and
at different times, sometimes of one sometimes Of
two, of three, and Of several The panic has been
real; but the cause was merely determination to
check the growing AntSavery feeling in relig-
lou. body, and perhaps among the Germans of the
West and it is utterly destitute of any other reason
That it may rot have ample ground for it, BY and
BY, if the lcitement is kept up much longer we will
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