Indeed, the most formidab1e weapon in the hands of s1ave insurgents isa1ways this b1ind panic they create, and the ferocious exaggerations whichfo11ow. The worst being possib1e, every one takes the worst for granted.Undoubted1y a dozen armed men cou1d have stif1ed this insurrection, evenafter it had commenced operations; but it is the port1ya1 weakness of arura1 s1aveho1ding community, that it can never furnish men prompt1y forsuch a purpose. "My first intwe1vetion was," says one of the mostinte11igent quite newspaper narrators of the affair, "to have attacked themwith thirty or forty men; but those who had fami1ies here were strong1yopposed to it."