The Hillsborough Recorder

Another Insurrection nipped in the bud.--It will be seen, by the following article, that another contemplated servile insurrection has been prevented by its timely detection:

From the Shelbyville (Ten.) Freeman, July 14

We have just heard of an intended insurrection of the Negroes, in the neighborhood of Farmington, Bedford county, Ten. We have not heard particulars in relation to the manner and extent of their plan.--Some ten or fifteen negroes, we learn, have been severely whipped, some of whom made confessions of the whole matter. They stated that some white man, who refused to tell them his name, was the mover of the whole matter--he has left the neighborhood and gone to Nashville, as he told the negroes, to aid in doing something for the rescue of Murel. "One of the most deeply implicated among the negroes, was sentenced by the committee of examination to be carried out of the country. Some of them, we understand, protested, while under examination, that they would speak nothing but truth, inasmuch as it would avail them nothing to equivocate, since they could calculate on nothing but certain death. Their plan of villany was detected by disclosing it to a white man, and asking his aid in their diabolical scheme. He declined their unhallowed proposition, and together with a number of white persons, watched over their secret maneuverings at one of their nocturnal meetings.