The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1860-09-19
TO BE CONTINUED.
Correspondence OF the New York Herald. !
The Abolition Horrors in Texas.

SAN A>ToNIo, Texas, August, 2O.-I
promised you IN my last, that Il any hing
mr'her should occur at ''ihc seat Of war"
IN Texas, ] woUlI lTmculiatcly cummuni
cate the sare TO you. Smc. that letter
was written. the excitement mentioned
therein "a existing in Eastern auu North
ern Texas hns zone on increasing, and
spread itself all over the State. Almost
every day has developed some new ret Of
vlIinny on the part of the aboiuonists,
willie the excitement has been wrOurEl
up I" f,ver heat. /, has Just reached
Is tCpm"st point. cannot easily see
how It can grow amy higher A day or
So ago, II rnmOr reached our city that the
hsau,'.u! and wealthy ltrIe town Of Hen
drrson, in Eush county, had been burned
To the ground. lE spite of the burning
down o: Dallas and several other places
some time ago, nobody WAS induced To
believe The rUuor, tor Henderson bad
re'rr been bothered by ahuhtonisls.
None had ever been driven out Of the
place. ~ d we believed that nobody in
the world had any malice against is cit
izeus. We could not think that there
existed villains of so deep il dye as, with
on, provo alton, to apply the torcii Of the
;mcendlary TO 50 quiet and interes ng II
htlIe town. Bul the event has proved
that the vl!Iaiuv "f Nor hrrn abolitIcusts
has no bounds. We received this morn
Ing, mails direct from the doomed place,
and the news is the effect that in this
i'te town Of about $500 people, only
three business houses have Lee saved
from the devou,ing element. Pretty
nearly the whole town has been destroy
ed and what was but few DAYS ago
one Of The most flourshing towns IN Texas
is now crumbIed ruin, smoking from
the grouuG. The town Was set on fire in
several places, ali ~ once between sunset
and dark. while the people were quietv
enjoying their evening meal. There was
u still breeze on at the ume-evervth;ng
WAS parched by the late protracted and
withering drought and the flames crac
kIed or beyond the power of man TO ar
rest them. Scarcely ANYTHING was saved.
Families that were but a few moments
be'ore in affluent circumstances, were
rendered penniless and miserable Two
Of the white abolition scoundrels who in
cited the negroes TO and assisted them in
this horrible work, were fortunately
caught and imm diateIy strung up be
tv cen heaven aud earth. The scoundrel-
deserved their fate. 'Tis pity that
those at the North who are making tools
out Of these miserable devils could not
NEE, with the same fate Several negros
were taken up, and on examination large
quantities Of stry ychnine were found in
their possession, which they said had
been given to them by white men to POI
son the public wells, and on the morning
Of certain day to charge heavily will
it the breakfast of the people I! The ne
gros were then to fal. upon the white.
with knife and pistol, and be assisted in
the work by abolitionsts. This is th,
tale they tell II seems hard TO beIiey,
that there are such iicnds in the world
but ! assure you that they are numerou
in Texas jus, now. have OCCASIONAL,
met them myself while travelling through
the State, and have heard them disccurs
their aboIiiionism.
! we received intelhgence Also THIS NOR
/ ming OF the inning Of two other smal
/ towns in Eastern Texas-B Bellevue ant
| Dangerfeld We have as yet receive,
no particulars of the burning Hender
son ia situated in the heart Of very ricl
cotton producing country, where negro
are exceedingly numerous.
! Abolltionisls are being hung all owe
the State. | suppose during the las