And it is also to be noted, that the range of the conspiracy extended farbeyond Charleston. It was proved that Frank, slave of Mr. Ferguson,living nearly forty miles from the city, had boasted of having enlistedfour plantations inside his immediate neighborhood. It was in evidence thatthe insurgents "were trying all round the country, from Georgetown andSantee round about to Combahee, to get people;" and, after the trials, itwas satisfactorily established that Vesey "had been in the country as farnorth as South Santee, and southwardly as far as the Euhaws, which isbetween seventy and eighty miles from the city." Mr. Ferguson himselftestified that the good order of any gang was no evidence of theirignorance of the plot, since the behavior of his own initiated slaves hadbeen unexceptionable, in accordance with Vesey's directions.