horrid transaction, that a band actuated by such hellish purposes, should have resisted so feebly, when met by the whites in arms.  Desperation alone, one would think, might have led to greater efforts.  More than twenty of them attacked Dr. Blunt’s house on Tuesday morning, a little before day-break, defended by two men and three boys.  They fled precipitately at the first fire; and their future plans of mischief, were entirely disconcerted and broken up.  Escaping thence, each individual sought his own safety either in concealment, or by returning home, with the hope that his participation might escape detection, and all were shot down in the course of a few days, or captured and brought to trial and punishment.  Nat has survived all his followers, and the gallows will speedily close his career.  His own account of the conspiracy is submitted to the public, without comment.  It reads an awful, and it is hoped, a useful lesson, as to the operations of a mind like his, endeavoring to grapple with things beyond its reach.  How it first became bewildered and confounded, and finally corrupted and led to the conception and perpetration of the most atrocious and heart-rending deeds.  It is calculated also to demonstrate the policy of our laws in restraint of this class of our population, and to induce all those entrusted with their execution, as well as our citizens generally, to see that they are strictly and rigidly enforced.  Each particular community should look to its own safety, whilst the general guardians of the laws, keep a watchful eye over all.  If Nat’s statements can be relied on, the insurrection in this county was entirely local, and his designs confided but to a few, and these in his immediate vicinity.  It was not instigated by motives of revenge or sudden anger, but the results of long deliberation, and a settled purpose of mind.  The offspring of gloomy fanaticism, acting upon materials but too well prepared for such impressions.  It will be long remembered in the annals of our country, and many a mother as she presses her infant darling to her bosom, will shudder at the recollection of Nat Turner, and his band of ferocious miscreants.

Believing the following narrative, by removing doubts and conjectures from the public mind which otherwise must have remained, would give general satisfaction, it is respectfully submitted to the public by their ob’t serv’t,

T.R.  Gray.
Jerusalem, Southampton, Va.  Nov. 5, 1831.

We the undersigned, members of the Court convened at Jerusalem, on Saturday, the 5th day of Nov. 1831, for the trial of Nat, alias Nat Turner, a negro slave, late the property of Putnam Moore, deceased, do hereby certify, that the confessions of Nat, to Thomas R. Gray, was read to him in our presence, and that Nat acknowledged the same to be full, free, and voluntary; and that furthermore, when called upon by the presiding Magistrate of the Court, to state if he had any thing to say, why sentence of death should