Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-08-04
Ths AbolitIon Plot in Texas.

Houston fTexas) Telegraph from Dallas, giving fur
Their particulars of the extensive Abolition plot
there few days ago. some account Of
which we have already given;
The outhouses, granaries, oats and grain of Mr.. /
Grill Miller were destroyeda few days after the des-
truction of Dallas This led to the arrest of some
white men. whose innocence, however was proved /
beyond doubt. Several negroes belonging to Mr.. |
Miller were taken up and examined, and develop |
ments of the most startling character elected. "A |
plot to destroy the country was revealed and every
circumstance, even to the mnutu, detailed Nearly
or quite hundred negroes have been arrested. and
upon close examination, separate and apart from
each other they deposed to the existence of plot
or conspiracy to lay waste the country BY fire and
assassinatcn-to impoyerIsh the land by the de-
struction of the provisions arms and ammunition,
and then when in state of helplessness, general
revolt of the negroes to begin on the first Mon
dsy in August the day of election for State officers.
fis conspiracy is aided and allotted BY Abolition
eaissaries from the North, and by those in our
midst
The details of the plot and its modus operandi
are these Each county in Northern Texas has a
supervisor in the person OF white man, whose
name is not given; each county IS laid of IN dis
tricts uniler TIE subagens of this villain who
troll the action of the negroes in the districts by
whom the firing was to be done. Many OF our most
prominent citizens were singled out for asasssinas
ton whenever they made their escape from their
burning houses. Negroes never before suspected,
implicated, ana Inc lnSurTSStiOnaIJ
is widespread to extent truly alarming. in
some places the plan was conceived in every form
shocking to the mind, and frlghtul IN us results.
Poisoning was to be added, the old females to be
slaughtered along with the men, and the young ana
handsome women to be parcieed out amongst these
infamous scoundrels. They have even gone so far
as to designate their choice, and certain ladies' nad
already been selected the victims OF those mis-.
guided monsters.
Fortunately, the country has been saved from
sI,o of
fearful duty remains for us. The negroes have been
melted to these Internal proceedings by Adolf
tonists, and the emissaries OF certain preachers
! who were expelled from this country last year
Their agents have been busy amongst us, and many
of them have been in our midst Some OF them
have been identified, and have fled from the country
others still remain to receive fearful accountants
| ty from outraged and Infatuated people Nearly
hundred negroes have testified that large rem
forcement of AbolitiOnists expected on the ISL
of August and these be aided by recruits from the
Indians while the Rangers several hundred M 70
to the North of 1t was desired TO destroy Dali
las, in order that the arms and ammunition OF the
| artillery company might share the same fate.
| Our iail is filed with the villains, many of whom
will he hung, and that very soon. man was found
hung at our neighboring city of Fort WORTH two
DAYS ago, believed to be one of these scoundrels
who are engaged in this work. We learn that he
had stored away hundred of rifles, and the day
after he was hung, load of shooters passed or
to him, but were intercepted. He was betrayed by
one of the gang and hence his plans were thwarted
Many others will share his fate
l have never witnessed such times. We are most
profoundly excited. We go armed day and night,
and know not what we shall be called upon to do.
The Galveston Ne,rs of the 2sth furnishes further
particulars, as fellow
We learn from a gentleman, resident of Ellis
county who left Waxahatchie on Monday last, and
arrived this morning, some further details of the
results of the discovery of the diabOlical Abolition
plot that was to sweep over Northern Texas with
the incendiary's torch and murderer's weapon.
In Dallas and Ellis counties, committees, compos-
ed of the coolest steadiest and most respectable
citizens, appointed and were at work all last
week investigating the whole affair. No one but
those Immediately interested knows who compose
the committees, where or when they meet, OF
what they are doing. Their chief object is to as
certain what whites are at the bottom of the plot
No one else interferes in the investigation.
In Ellis, the County Court has organized patrols
on an extensive and well managed system.
The negroes confessions-mad apart and at grea
distances-concur in the leading points, and all aver
white men originated the plot and directed thelI
, | movements.
They promised the negroes their liberty and theil
I masters goods, ETC., and to lead them to Kansas
the negroes were told also that the next President
! would be a Northern man. who would free them ell
The negroes concerned in Ellis county were prin
cipally of mature age and those allowed by theli
owners a good deal of liberty. The young ones
many were not trusted with the secret at ALL Then
idea was 10 burn all the stores where arms and am
i munition were kept; and on election day-the OIL
| of August when the citizens were away from thei
: farms and houses-the negroes were TO rise, selz
on all arms, and headed by their white leaders 4
attack the houses here and there, murder defense
less women burn and DESTROY, and finally, 1t Is pre-
= sumed, march off in a body towards Kansas.
d Waxahatchie was TO have been set fire to On tn
Sth-the same day Dallas anil so many other place
| fp.d 4. but
day. aroused the citizens, and the negro appointed
| the deed became alarmed, and left. he was to haV
returned and repeated the attempt last Sunday, ha
not the plot been discovered -
# Explanation of the Troubles in Syria.
l, The New York Observer publishes letter froI
u the Rev. WN H. THOMPSON, missionary of the Amer
r can Board in Syria. and author of The Land and
e Book. from which we take the following which e.
plains the heretofore almost incOmPrehenslbe col
y n dition of affairs in that country
5 l. The European governments having adopted Tu
KEY in the general family of nations. eonsummate
their folly by deciding that no interference with ne
governmental operations was to De allowed. denc
| the Consuls of all nations found themselves par
"a lived by positive instructions fOrbddng them 10
or anything to arrest this mad and internal worl.
ut 2 Beirut has been governed for the lastfew yea
as by an old talented, but most bigoted Pasha wi
" has managed to get the Christians OF kesrawan,
q Zahleh and of DER ell Kamar into a state of sem
rebellion against himself and he has been plottiI
their destruction for long time. By increasing Il
i'll will between all classes, and especially by stlrrl1
I'D the hatred CT the Druses toward the Christian
n he has now succeeded.
" 3 The Christians having been now for so man
h years without any acknowledged head, found then
w selves utterly dsorganzed and unable resist ii
70 wild onslaught of their enemies. Except at Zale
they have made real resistance. The whole a
" fair was driven through with startling rapidit
ie All Lebanon was in blaze in one day. The Turl
,e ish Governmen. everywhere assisted the Druses.
r s. | regard the success of the Druses and its a
ii companying atrocities as their final and utter
IF str7CtiOn as a body. Never again will they ru
of over Christians Remember, that the scenes OF col
w blooded butchery of unarmed men, of women,
a priests monks and nuns; not speak of confagr
10 tlons of towns villages hamlets churches convent
&C. has no parallel in the history of Lebanon.
have this very year read through the entire hlstoT
at of Lebanon since the Arabs have resided on it, ar
if it contains nothing that compare with TINS tr
Is mendOus tragedy.
ir G. There were no European shps-of-war on tn
coast at the outbreak, and they are just beginnin
q TO assemble but their coming is certain and nO1l
10 teruentOn is at an end The Consuls yesterday r
le ceived orders all to act IN concert to stop the war.
8 T. 1t is expected that Russia ard France Will az
~ separately from England Austria and Prussia, ar
the dosrnfdH of the 1ohOLe Turkish Empire may
il looked for l am slow to blow the trumpet
e. alarm but this grand and fearful result is not II
ID probable.
- An Extraordinary Case of Litigation.
ID The Rome Sentinel gives the following account {
n a suit in which JOIN Brown, of Harpers Ferr