The editor of the first official report racked his minds to discover thespecial causes of the revolt, and never trusted himself to allude to thegeneral one. The negroes rebelled because they were deluded byCongressional eloquence; or because they were excited by a churchsquabble; or because they had been spoilt by mistaken indulgences, suchas being allowed to learn to read,--"a misguided benevolence," as hepronounces it. So the Baptist Convention seems to have thought it wasbecause they were not Baptists; and an Episcopal pamphleteer, becausethey were not Episcopalians. It never seems to occur to any of thesespectators, that these people rebelled simply because they were slaves,and wished to be free.