The indispensable concert of action cannot be attained.

The slaves have no means of rapid communication; nor can incendiary freemen, black or white, supply it.

The explosive materials are everywhere in parcels; but there neither are nor can be supplied the indispensable connecting trains.
Much is said by Southern people about the affection of slaves for their masters and mistresses; and a part of it, at least, is true.
A plot for an uprising could scarcely be devised and communicated to twenty individuals before some one of them, to save the life of a favorite master or mistress, would divulge it.

This is the rule; and the slave revolution in Hayti was not an exception to it, but a case occurring under peculiar circumstances.

The gunpowder plot of British history, though not connected with slaves, was more in point.