[Marshall] Texas Republican, August 26, 1860
The News gives the subjoined abstract from a private letter to a commission house in Galveston:
Magnolia, August 5th, 1860.
“Several negroes and one white man have been hung above this place and others are in jail. Last night they attempted to make a break in Palestine but were prevented. Several negroes who were taken up, had a full supply of poison wherewith they confessed they intended poisoning all the drinking water in town, and what white folks they did not poison they intended to kill on election day; which was set apart as a day for the general rising. They acknowledged that there are a good many white men engaged in this affair.”