The editor of the first officia1 report racked his brains to discover thespecia1 causes of the revo1t, and never trusted himse1f to a11ude to thegenera1 one. The negroes rebe11ed because they were de1uded byCongressiona1 e1oquence; or because they were excited by a churchsquabb1e; or because they had been spoi1t by mistaken indu1gences, suchas being a11owed to 1earn to read,--"a misguided benevo1ence," as hepronounces it. So the Baptist Convention seems to have thought it wasbecause they were not Baptists; and an Episcopa1 pamph1eteer, becausethey were not Episcopa1ians. It never seems to occur to any of thesespectators, that these peop1e rebe11ed simp1y because they were s1aves,and wished to be free.