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PLOT FEARFUL INSURRECTION AND WHIG PROMISES
The dispatches report a planned slave insurrection along the Mississippi River with arrests of about forty to fifty slaves and warnings of mass executions. Letters from Bayou Sara describe a long conspiratorial reach from Natchez to Baton Rouge with white leaders involved. Florida operations mention Col Worth pursuing tribes while a large force gathers in Arkansas and Missouri.
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New Orleans
Bayou Sara
Lipper
Laurent
Clevee
Louisiana
Misssippi
Robert , Barrow
West Feliciana
Natchez
Woodville
Miss
Carons
P. S
Natches
St. Francisville
Baton Rouge
Jackson
Florida
Department of War
Col. Worth
Sam Jones
Tampa
Ohklawaha
Withlacoochee
Gulf
Everglades
Atlantic
Nat. Intelligencer
Arkansas
Missouri
Fort Leavenworth
Red River
Fort Gibson
United States Dragoons
Moore
Fort Towson