Interview of a neighbor of Crill Miller, farmer who had his barn burned to the ground.

Reporter: Sir, I heard that Crill Miller had his barn burned and one of his slaves confessed?

Neighbor: Yes, Miller’s barn burned. Word I heard was that one of his slaves confessed but I was there that day. Miller suspected his slaves from the start and made that boy confess, threatening what was nothing more than a child that if he didn’t tell who’d started the fire, he’d kill him. And Miller went on to tell that boy that if he died lying about it, the “devil would get him sure.”

Well, what was that child to do? He soon told which of the slaves had caused the fire and that led to more interrogations.

Long and short of it Miller’s slaves are saying that Abolitionist preachers have stirred up all this trouble and are trying to start a general rebellion of all the slaves.¹

1. You pick up a paper that someone has brought to town, reading Charles Pryor’s letter to the editor about a potential Abolitionist and terrorist plot in Texas.