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The Daily Dispatch: January 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], Speech of U. S. Senator Benjamin on the Crisis. (search)
day, 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 in the use of incendiary expressions.--Fanny Tucker, slave of Mr. Vaughn, who "blowed" on the negroes, testified that there was a party at Mr. V.'s on last Thursday night; while there her cousin Martha. one told a different tale, and nearly every one flatly contradicted Fanny. Old Phil entirely "seceded" from the remarks imputed to him, and had no knowledge of the "party," or the alleged conversation thereat. Of the negroes under arrest, Wm. Gray owns one, Samuel Hardgrove one, Chas. Rhodes two, and the widow Clarke one. The Howletts are freed negroes, having been set free by will. It is claimed that some of the plotting was done at their house, though the testimony did not make the fa