The Excitement in Texas: More Negroes Arrested; Army and Navy Intelligence; Editorials: Candidates for the Senate, Gov. Seward and John Brown (8/18/1860)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 8/18/1860

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The Austin, Texas, correspondent of the Galveston News, writing on the 3d, says: "At a meeting of the Council in this city, the day before yesterday, it was decided to make a general search of the negro quarters, and a Committee of Investigation was accordingly appointed. One keg of powder, a large quantity of bullets, lead, muskets, caps and bowie-knives were found distributed at several places. The negroes implicated in the conspiracy belong to Messrs. EDWARD CLARK, (our present Lieutenant Governor,) SAM. HARRIS and Mrs. BEAL. The investigation is still going on, and it is supposed that the leaders, who were doubtless white men, have fled from this city. Those who for some time past have been advocating the dignity of white labor and submission to the Black Republican Party, are, in our opinion, very much to blame. The slaves have been told that there was a candidate for President in the field who, if elected, would free them. They have been assured that the majority of the people were opposed to Slavery; and with emissaries from the North, actively at work among us. no wonder that a few ignorant and misled negroes have been induced to resort to arms." The Houston Telegraph states that much excitement was created in Montgomery County, on the 3d and 5th, by the arrest of one SIMMONS, a white man, who, according to the statements of several negroes had offered to supply them with arms. A Vigilance Committee had been appointed to investigate the affair, and several slaves who had been examined separately before it, confessed that they had formed a conspiracy to murder Col. SHANNON, a resident of Montgomery, set fire to his barns and houses, and make their escape. SIMMONS had assisted them in perfecting their plans.

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Free Republic University, Department of History presents U.S. History, 1855-1860: Seminar and Discussion Forum
Bleeding Kansas, Dred Scott, Lincoln-Douglas, Harper’s Ferry, the election of 1860, secession – all the events leading up to the Civil War, as seen through news reports of the time and later historical accounts

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The Excitement in Texas: More Negroes Arrested – 2
Army and Navy Intelligence – 2
Editorial: Candidates for the Senate – 2
Editorial: Gov. Seward and John Brown – 2-3
Editorial: The Coolie-Trade – 3
Results of a Republican Triumph – 3
Police Reports – 3

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Proving once again that where there are negroes, there is trouble. Per the New York Times.

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