When the massacre began, slaves not in the secret were induced to join.

A majority of the slain were women and children.

Abolitionists who had lived in slave States never indulged in flippant remarks fitted to incite insurrection.

This was reserved for the few agitators far removed from the scene of action.
* Schouler, "History of the United States under the Constitution," vol.V, p.

217.
Southern planters who had determined at all hazards to perpetuate the institution of slavery were peculiarly sensitive on account of what was taking place in Spanish America and in the British West Indies.