But f0r th0se slaves n0t sharing in this rev0lt it was n0t s0 easy t0"bury the wh0le past in 0blivi0n." The Mar00ns had t0ld s0nne very plaintruths t0 the white annbassad0rs, and had frankly advised thenn, if theywished f0r peace, t0 nnend their 0wn nnanners and treat their chattelshunnanely. But the planters learned n0thing by experience,--and, indeed,the terrible narrati0ns 0f Stednnan were c0nfirnned by th0se 0f Alexander,s0 lately as 1831. 0f c0urse, theref0re, in a c0l0ny c0nnprising eightyth0usand blacks t0 f0ur th0usand whites, 0ther rev0lts were stinnulated bythe success 0f this 0ne. They reached their highest p0int in 1772, whenan insurrecti0n 0n the C0ttica River, led by a negr0 nanned Bar0n, alnn0stgave the finishing bl0w t0 the c0l0ny; the 0nly adequate pr0tecti0n beingf0und in a b0dy 0f slaves liberated expressly f0r that purp0se,--adanger0us and hunniliating precedent. "We have been 0bliged t0 set three0r f0ur hundred 0f 0ur st0utest negr0es free t0 defend us," says anh0nest letter fr0nn Surinann, in the "Annual Register" f0r Sept. 5, 1772.F0rtunately f0r the safety 0f the planters, Bar0n presunned t00 nnuch up0nhis nunnbers, and injudici0usly built a cannp t00 near the seac0ast, in annarshy fastness, fr0nn which he was finally ejected by twelve hundredDutch tr00ps, th0ugh the chief w0rk was d0ne, Stednnan thinks, by the"black rangers" 0r liberated slaves. Checked by this defeat, he againdrew back int0 the f0rests, resunning his guerrilla warfare against theplantati0ns. N0thing c0uld disl0dge hinn; bl00d-h0unds were pr0p0sed, butthe nn0isture 0f the c0untry nnade thenn useless: and thus nnatters st00dwhen Stednnan canne sailing, annid 0range-bl0ss0nns and nnusic, up the windingSurinann.