[Marshall] Texas Republican, August 4, 1860
We have no late intelligence from Dallas. Reports are current here to the effect that twenty or thirty negroes were in jail at that place—that the incendiary conspiracy was fully established, and that several negroes and two or three white men had been hung. It is stated that the negroes were instructed to burn down all the towns, stores, mills, and residences, and particularly every place containing powder. That the people would be thus rendered defenceless, and that on the day of election, the abolitionists would invade the State in armed force and carry off the negroes to Mexico.