and ought to be given to their acts as Justices of the peace aforesaid.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my
hand and caused the seal of the Court
[Seal.] aforesaid, to be affixed this 5th day of
November, 1831.
James Rochelle, C.S.C.C.




CONFESSION.


Agreeable to his own appointment, on the evening he was committed to
prison, with permission of the jailer, I visited NAT on Tuesday the 1st
November, when, without being questioned at all, he commenced his
narrative in the following words:--


Sir,--You have asked me to give a history of the motives which induced
me to undertake the late insurrection, as you call it--To do so I must
go back to the days of my infancy, and even before I was born. I was
thirty-one years of age the 2d of October last, and born the property of
Benj. Turner, of this county. In my childhood a circumstance occurred
which made an indelible impression on my mind, and laid the ground work
of that enthusiasm, which has terminated so fatally to many, both white
and black, and for which I am about to atone at the gallows. It is here
necessary to relate this circumstance--trifling as it may seem, it was
the commencement of that belief which has grown with time, and even now,
sir, in this dungeon, helpless and forsaken as I am, I cannot divest