entering a public conveyance to escape; and the Baltimore _Telegraphe_
declared that he had a written paper directing him to apply to Alexander
Biddenhurst or Weddenhurst in Philadelphia, "corner of Coats Alley and
Budd Street, who would supply his needs." What became of this military
individual, or of his Philadelphia sympathizers, does not appear. But it
was noticed, as usually happens in such cases, that all the insurgents
had previously passed for saints. "It consists within my knowledge," says
one letter-writer, "that many of these wretches who were or would have
been partakers in the plot have been treated with the utmost tenderness
by their masters, and were more like children than slaves."

These appear to be all the details now accessible of this once famous
plot. They were not very freely published, even at the time. "The
minutiae of the conspiracy have not been detailed to the public," said
the Salem (Mass.) _Gazette_ of Oct. 7, "and perhaps, through a mistaken
notion of prudence and policy, will not be detailed in the Richmond
papers." The New-York _Commercial Advertiser_ of Oct. 13 was still more
explicit. "The trials of the negroes concerned in the late insurrection
are suspended until the opinions of the Legislature can be had on the
subject. This measure is said to be owing to the immense numbers who are
interested in the plot, whose death, should they all be found guilty and
be executed, will nearly produce the annihilation of the blacks in this
part of the country." And in the next issue of the same journal a
Richmond correspondent makes a similar statement, with the following
addition: "A conditional amnesty is perhaps expected. At the next session
of the Legislature [of Virginia], they took into consideration the
subject referred to them, in secret session, with closed doors. The whole
result of their deliberations has never yet been made public, as the
injunction of secrecy has never been removed. To satisfy the court, the
public, and themselves, they had a task so difficult to perform, that it