Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-08-30
Reign of Terror i'm Texas.

The Galveston News of August 2lst
says: -.
Vigilance. committees and patrols have
been formed at Douglas, Nacogdoches, JEFF
ferson, Cass, Upsher, San Augustine, and
Parker counties. In Rusk person can
not 90 City steps. in any direction without
being challenged. The Abolitionist, Lens
ons, who was expelled from Quitman, was
saved from death only by the prayers of
his wife.
The Rusk Enquirer of Aug. 18th, says:
The negroes on Mrs. Timmons planta-
ton became insubordinate; the overseer
refused to correct them, and the Rusk po-
lice were called in. The separate confess
sions of the negroes were that on Sunday,
the 5th inst, the wells and springs were
TO be poisoned, dwellings fred town destroy
ed. and all the men killed when returning
from the election. Negroes and white
men were implicated in the plot; the ne
groes said they expected shortly to be free,
and they would be aided by large numbers
of white men when the time came. This
emeute was under the direction for the
most part of negro preachers, who preten-
ded to extraordinary piety, and who were
generally favorites of their masters; all the
negroes of the county were aware of the
plot, but few were engaged in it.
The San Antonio Ledger says:
The negroes in Bastrop and Caldwell
county were suspected and a committee
was organized In the negro cabins arms
and ammunition were discovered. In Ty-
Ter county few went to the polls on account
of the excitement arising from the arrest
of ten negroes who had confessed to plot
for murder, burnings and robbery, Two
white men were implicated.
Forty negroes and two or three whites
have been discovered together at Paris,
Damar county, and the negroes confessed
that plot was laid to kill the women on
election day, when the men were at the
polls, and to kill the men when they return
ed from the polls.
At Athens, in Henderson county, one
well has been poisoned, and upon search,
overy one hundred bottles of strychnine
were found in possession of the negroes
After whipping them they confessed to a
plot 10 poison all the public and private
wells in the town on a certain Sunday night;
to poison the family breakfast, and the
knife and pistol were to do the rest. The
old women and young children were to be
murdered, and the young women were to
be taken as wives of the hell-hounds. The
Editor there says that ''for four nights
every man connected with the Reporter
has been on duty, and we are completely
worn out, and if this excitement continues
we must stop our regular issue, for we
cannot work all DAY and watch all night.
There is one paper that has little or no
faith in the various rumors. The Austin
h,telligencer of Aug. 18th says:
The late excitement about negro insur-
rections and incendiarism, which frightened
all our women and children, and kept
thousands of true conservative men from
the polls, seems as well understood at
Washington as here. The Washington
correspondent of the Fremont Breckenridge
organ, the New York Herald, July 2sth
says:
"',TrHE REPORTED CoNsPIRAcIEs IN TEX
As-Tbe Telegraphic report of the aboli
ton conspiracy in Northern Texas, is view
ed here by Southern men as humbug, got
ten up for political effect"
This is the first streak of daylight W,
have seen amid the gloom of the Texas
Terrorism,