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The Daily Dispatch: January 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], Speech of U. S. Senator Benjamin on the Crisis. (search)
pidation among the inhabitants, nor could a verification of the assertions of Madame Rumor, in respect to the destruction of Mayo's Bridge, &c., be had from any of them. At the Town Hall the examination of a lot of negroes was progressing before Justice Spencer Hancock, they having been arrested that morning by Constable B. A. Moody on a warrant issued by Justice J. Hobbs, on the oath of Mr. James B. Vaughan, who stated therein that he had good reason to believe that George Howlett, Wilson Howlett, Peter Howlett, Becky Howlett, Sarah Howlett, Margaret Howlett, (free,) Martin, Jim Wortham, Philip Randall, Warner Clarke, Laura Rhodes, and Robertson Shuter, (slaves,) did, on the night of Thursday, December 27th, meet at the kitchen of said Jas. B. Vaughan, and did, then and there, talk of and make arrangements for an insurrection against the white inhabitants of the county of Chesterfield. Philip Randall, an old negro owned by Mr. Wm. Gray, appeared to be most deeply implicated
The Daily Dispatch: January 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National Crisis. (search)
n elected. The parties in their "talks" made no reference, as we understood, to anything they proposed to do themselves, the tenor of their information leading them to believe that all the arrangements necessary to accomplish their "freedom" would be perfected at the North. None of the negroes implicated belonged to Charles Rhodes, as stated yesterday. The following is a list of owners, names of negroes, and award of judgment in the case: Jim, slave of Samuel Harogrove, thirty-nine lashes; Phil, (Wm. Gray's,) thirty-nine; Warner and Leander, (Mrs. Clarke's,) thirty-nine each; Caroline, property of J. B. Vaughn, discharged; Martha and Lizzie, (same owner,) thirty-nine each; Armistead, (Mrs. Archer's,) discharged; George Howlett, (free,) thirty; Wilson Howlett, (free,) thirty-nine; Peter Howlett, (free,) twenty-five; Becky Howlett, Mink Howlett, and Sarah Howlett, (free,) discharged. A vigilant and efficient patrol has been operating in and around Manchester for several weeks past.