The plot as described contemplated the seizure of the
arsenal and the firing of the city in facilitation of massacre.[97]
[Footnote 90: _Niles' Register_, XLIX, 331.]
[Footnote 91: _Ibid_., LIII, 129.]
[Footnote 92: Louisiana, _Acts_ of 1838, p. 118.]
[Footnote 93: _Niles' Register_, LXIX, 39, 88; E.P. Puckett, "Free Negroes
in Louisiana" (MS.).]
[Footnote 94: New Orleans _Bee_, July 23, 29 and 31, 1841.]
[Footnote 95: _Niles' Register_, LXIII, 212.]
[Footnote 96: _Louisiana Courier_ (New Orleans), Jan. 27 and Feb. 17,
1843.]
[Footnote 97: Letter of Mrs. S.A. Lamar, Augusta, Ga., Feb. 25, 1841, to
John B. Lamar at Macon. MS. in the possession of Mrs. A.S. Erwin, Athens,
Ga.]
The rest of the 'forties and the first half of the 'fifties were a period
of comparative quiet; but in 1855 there were rumors in Dorchester and
Talbot Counties, Maryland,[98] and the autumn of 1856 brought widespread
disturbances which the Southern whites did not fail to associate with the
rise of the Republican Party. In the latter part of that year there were
rumors afloat from Williamsburg, Virginia, and Montgomery County in the
same state, from various quarters of Tennessee, Arkansas and Texas, from
New Orleans, and from Atlanta and Cassville, Georgia.
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