Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-08-18
The Reported Diabolical Plot in Texas-
Further Particulars.


Further Particulars
We find in the Houston Telegraph letter
dated Dallas, Texas, July 2lst. giving some
further particulars of the plot said to have
been concocted by abolitonsts and the slaves
to devostatc tho whole of Northern Texas,
and enter upon general massacre of the white
population. The letter, after stating that the
whole affair was revealed by the arrest of sew,
cral negroes for firing houses proceeds as fol
lows
Nearly or quite n hundred negroes have
been arrested, and upon close examination
separate and apart from each other, they de-
posed to the existence of plot or conspiracy
to lay waste the country by fire and assassiua-
tion-to impovorisl the land by the destruc-
tion of the provision, arms and ammunition, and
then, when in a state of hclplcssncss, gene
raj revolt of the negroes was to begin on the
LIST Monday in August the day of election for
State Officers. This conspiracy is aided and
allotted by abolition cmissarics from tho North
and by those in our midst. The details of
the plot and its modus opcrandi, arc these {:
Each county in Northern Texas las super
visor in the person Of white man, whose
name is not given each county is laid off
into districts under the sub.agcnts of this vii
lain, who controls the action of the negroes
III said districts, by whom the firing was to be
done. Many of our most prominent ctizcny
were singled out for assassination whenever
they made their escape from burning homes -
Negroes never before suspected are implca-
ted, and the inSurcctlonurY movement is wide
spread to an extent truly alarming. Iu some
places the plan Was conceived in ovcry form.
shocking to the mind, and frightful in its re-
suits. Poisoning WAS to be added, and the
old females to De slaughtered along with the
men, and the young and handsome women to
he parcclcd out amongst these infamous scoun-
drcs. They had even gone so far as to dcSig
nate their choice, and certain ladies had al
ready been selected as the victims of these
misguided monsters. Fortunately, the coun-
try has been saved from the accomplishment
of these horrors but then fearful duty re-
mains for us. The negroes have been melted
to these internal proceedings by aboli,ionsts.
and the emissarics of certain preachers who
were expelled from this county last year
Their agents have hccu busy amongst us, and
many of them have been in our midst Some
of them have been identified, but have fed
from the country; others still remain to re-
ceivc Il fearful accountability from an outraged
and infuriatctl people Nearly hundred ne
grocs have testified that II large rcinforcemcnt
of abolittonists arc expected on the lst of Au-
gust. and these to be aided 10y recruits from
the Indian tribes while the Rangers are sew
cral hundred miles to the north of us 1t was
desired to destroy Dallas, in order that the
arms and ammunition of the artillery compa-
ny might share the same fate. Our Jail is
filled with the villains, many of whom will be
hung, and that very soon A man was found
hung at our nciglboring city of Fort Worth,
two days ago believed TO be one of those
scoundrclS who arc engaged in this work.
We learn that he lad stored away humber of
rifles, and the day after he WAS hung a load of
six-shooters passed on to linn, but were inter
ccpted. He was betrayed by one of the gang,
and hence his plans were thwartcd Many
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