The Letter of Appomatox to the People of Virginia: Exhibiting a Connected View of the Recent Proceedings in the House of Delegates, on the Subject of the Abolition of Slavery (Classic Reprint)
The Letter of Appomatox to the People of Virginia: Exhibiting a Connected View of the Recent Proceedings in the House of Delegates, on the Subject of the Abolition of Slavery (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from The Letter of Appomatox to the People of Virginia: Exhibiting a Connected View of the Recent Proceedings in the House of Delegates, on the Subject of the Abolition of Slavery To him when he should commence the great work - by the appearance of the first xsign, which was no other than-the eclipse of the sun in February last - and by the appearance of the sign again, namely, that unusual state of the atmos phere shortly, preceding the outbreaking of the conspiracy, which gave the sun's rays a bluish tint. ...
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Excerpt from The Letter of Appomatox to the People of Virginia: Exhibiting a Connected View of the Recent Proceedings in the House of Delegates, on the Subject of the Abolition of Slavery To him when he should commence the great work - by the appearance of the first xsign, which was no other than-the eclipse of the sun in February last - and by the appearance of the sign again, namely, that unusual state of the atmos phere shortly, preceding the outbreaking of the conspiracy, which gave the sun's rays a bluish tint. Prompted and di rected by these supernatural influences, upon the appearance of the first sign, the seal was removed from his lips, and he communicated the great work laid out for him to do, to four in whom he had the greatest confidencef.' and, when the sign appeared again, he got together a petty gang of six followers, whom he' incited, partly by the contagion of the evil spirit with which he was himself possessed, and partly by another Spirit, which he invoked doubtless with better assurance of its, efficacy, the spirit, namely, of brandy, to conspire with him in tire great work. And by these seven men, was the great work commenced. Others joined them in their progress but the whole gang of insurgents, from first to last, seem not to have exceeded sixty men, of whom five were'free negroes. That there was no general plot of insurrection among the slaves of that district of country, or even of the immediate vicinity, is now quite certain. There was no concerted plan of action among the conspirators themselves; no provision of means to accomplish their object; hardly, indeed, any defi nite object. They rose in the dead of night; and, in a thinly peopled neighborhood, where the alarm could not be rapidly Spread, they succeeded, during that night and the following morning, in'murdering ten men, fourteen women, and thirty one children. It was a mere scene of massacre, than which, for the narrow bounds of space and time to' which it was con fined, none ever was more indiscriminate, ruthless and nhomi nable. Their last effort was an attack on Dr. Blunt's house by a party of'twenty; which was repelled by two men and three boys. They were met, as promptly as could possibly have been expected, considering the circumstances of the ou slaught, -by the militia of the county, or rather of the neigh borhood; by whom, before any of the forces wisely ordered. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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