I will not shock the feelings of humanity, nor wound afresh the bosoms of the disconsolate sufferers in this unparalleled and inhuman massacre, by detailing the deeds of their fiend-like barbarity.  There were two or three who were in the power of these wretches, had they known it, and who escaped in the most providential manner.  There were two whom they thought they left dead on the field at Mr. Parker’s, but who were only stunned by the blows of their guns, as they did not take time to re-load when they charged on them.  The escape of a little girl who went to school at Mr. Waller’s, and where the children were collecting for that purpose, excited general sympathy.  As their teacher had not arrived, they were at play in the yard, and seeing the negroes approach, she ran up on a dirt chimney, (such as are common to log houses,) and remained there unnoticed during the massacre of the eleven that were killed at this place.  She remained on her hiding place till just before the arrival of a party, who were in pursuit of the murderers, when she came down and fled to a swamp, where, a mere child as she was, with the horrors of the late scene before her, she lay concealed until the next day, when seeing a party go up to the house, she came up, and on being asked how she escaped, replied with the utmost simplicity, “The Lord helped her.”  She was taken up behind a gentleman of the party, and returned to the arms of her weeping mother.  Miss Whitehead concealed herself between the bed and the mat that supported it, while they murdered her sister in the same room, without discovering her.  She was afterwards carried off, and concealed for protection by a slave of the family, who gave evidence against several of them on their trial.  Mrs. Nathaniel Francis, while concealed in a closet heard their blows, and the shrieks of the victims of these ruthless savages; they then entered the closet where she was concealed, and went out without discovering her.  While in this hiding place, she heard two of her women in a quarrel about the division of her clothes.  Mr. John T. Baron, discovering them approaching his house, told his wife to make her escape, and scorning to fly, fell fighting on his own threshold.  After firing his rifle, he discharged his gun at them, and then broke it over the villain who first approached him, but he was overpowered, and slain.  His bravery, however, saved from the hands of these monsters, his lovely and amiable wife, who will long lament a husband so deserving of her love.  As directed by him, she attempted to escape through the garden, when she was caught and held by one of her servant girls, but another coming to her rescue, she fled to the woods, and concealed herself.  Few indeed, were those who escaped their work of death.  But fortunate for society, the hand of retributive justice has overtaken them; and not one that was known to be concerned has escaped.

The Commonwealth, }
vs. } Charged with making insurrection,
Nat Turner. } and plotting to take away the lives of
divers free white persons, &c.
on the 22d of August, 1831.