Question

"no clearer proof of the pernicious influence of these vicious northern abolitionists can be seen ... than the recent events (in southhampton, va., in 1831.) did these weapons find their ways into the hands of these slaves without assistance

Answer 1

These words from a southern daily paper is alluding to an unsuccessful slave revolt drove by Nat Turner. He was an oppressed African American who drove a disobedience of slaves and free blacks in Southampton County, Virginia on August 21, 1831. The radicals went from manor to estate, gathering stallions and firearms, liberating different slaves en route, and enrolling different blacks who needed to join their revolt.