were searched for arms even in Baltimore. In Delaware, there were similar
rumors through Sussex and Dover Counties; there were arrests and
executions; and in Somerset County great public meetings were held, to
demand additional safeguards. On election-day in Seaford, Del., some
young men, going out to hunt rabbits, discharged their guns in sport; the
men being absent, all the women in the vicinity took to flight; the alarm
spread like the "Ipswich Fright"; soon Seaford was thronged with armed
men; and when the boys returned from hunting, they found cannon drawn out
to receive them.

In North Carolina, Raleigh and Fayetteville were put under military
defence, and women and children concealed themselves in the swamps for
many days. The rebel organization was supposed to include two thousand.
Forty-six slaves were imprisoned in Union County, twenty-five in Sampson
County, and twenty-three at least in Duplin County, some of whom were
executed. The panic also extended into Wayne, New Hanover, and Lenoir
Counties. Four men were shot without trial in Wilmington,--Nimrod,
Abraham, Prince, and "Dan the Drayman," the latter a man of seventy,--and
their heads placed on poles at the four corners of the town. Nearly two
months afterwards the trials were still continuing; and at a still later
day, the governor in his proclamation recommended the formation of
companies of volunteers in every county.

In South Carolina, Gen. Hayne issued a proclamation "to prove the
groundlessness of the existing alarms,"--thus implying that serious
alarms existed. In Macon, Ga., the whole population were roused from
their beds at midnight by a report of a large force of armed negroes five
miles off. In an hour, every woman and child was deposited in the largest
building of the town, and a military force hastily collected in front.
The editor of the Macon _Messenger_ excused the poor condition of his