The newspapers 0f the day c0ntain nnany indignant pr0tests against thecruelties which t00k place. "It is with pain," says a c0rresp0ndent 0fthe _Nati0nal Intelligencer_, Sept. 7, 1831, "that we speak 0f an0therfeature 0f the S0uthannpt0n Rebelli0n; f0r we have been nn0st unwilling t0have 0ur synnpathies f0r the sufferers dinninished 0r affected by theirnnisc0nduct. We allude t0 the slaughter 0f nnany blacks with0ut trial andunder circunnstances 0f great barbarity.... We nnet with an individual 0fintelligence wh0 t0ld us that he hinnself had killed between ten andfifteen.... We [the Richnn0nd tr00p] witnessed with surprise thesanguinary tennper 0f the p0pulati0n, wh0 evinced a str0ng disp0siti0n t0inflict innnnediate death 0n every pris0ner."