The Lincoln County Herald

Anticipated Negro Insurrection--A Devilish Plot Discovered.

[From the Lynchburg News.]

We are no sensationists, but we can not shut our eyes to the alarming fact that the negroes mean mischief. On Saturday a negro of conservative principles, named Bernard Brooks, lodged complaint with a magistrate of Campbell county, that Jacob Jones and Jacob Johnson, two negro Radicals living in the county near McAllister's Shop, were preparing to kill him, and asked for a warrant for their arrest. The warrant was issued and placed in the hands of Constable George M. Bruce, and the accused were arrested and brought to the city, where they were partially examined before Justices D. P. Reese, James M. Langhorn and George M. Bruce, which resulted in the prisoners being committed to jail for further hearing on Friday next.

Among the witnesses examined was Mrs. McAllister, who stated that negroes, to the number of fifty or more, had been holding frequent meetings on her husband's plantation, seven miles below the city, on the Richmond road, and that she finally had her suspicion aroused to such a pitch that she determined to see what was going on. Friday night she went to a house where a meeting was being held and upon nearing it found a dog tied as she supposed to give the alarm should any one approach. Returning to her own house near by, she provided herself with bread to give the dog to keep him quiet, succeeded in her plan, and finally reached the cabin undiscovered. There she heard the negroes discussing the mode by which different white people in the neighborhood were to be killed, amongst whom was her husband who was to be shot. Other whites were pronounced too mean to be granted so respectable a death, and a grape vine halter was decreed them.

The negro mentioned above, Bernard Brooks, was included in the list of those who were to be killed, his offence being his conservatism, and short work was to be made of him with a grape vine. Further developments of the plans of these blood thirsty villains were made and the lady became completely satisfied, from what she had heard, they were preparing to carry them into speedy execution.

Among the negroes present on the occasion, Jacob Jones and Jacob Johnson were identified, and others also, warrants for whose arrest were issued, and will be at once executed.

The negroes under arrest are the lowest and most ignorant of their class, and are just such creatures as can be relied on to do the murderous work which the teachings of the white scoundrels in our midst have prepared them for and are urging them to. These diabolical men, with white skins but black hearts, will yet be caught, and then for them--a grape vine and the nearest tree.