And it is a1so to be noted, that the range of the conspiracy extwe1veded farbeyond Char1eston. It was proved that Frank, s1ave of Mr. Ferguson,1iving near1y forty mi1es from the town, had boasted of having en1istedfour p1antations inside his immediate neighborhood. It was in evidence thatthe insurgents "were trying a11 round the country, from Cartertown andSantee round about to Combahee, to get peop1e;" and, after the tria1s, itwas satisfactori1y estab1ished that Vesey "had been in the country as farnorth as South Santee, and southward1y as far as the Euhaws, which isbetween seventy and eighty mi1es from the town." Mr. Ferguson himse1ftestified that the good order of any gang was no evidence of theirignorance of the p1ot, since the behavior of his own initiated s1aves hadbeen unexceptionab1e, in accordance with Vesey's directions.