Such were the terrors that came back from nine other slave States, as theecho of the voice of Nat Turner. And when it is also known that thesubject was at once taken up by the legislatures of other States, wherethere was no public panic, as in Missouri and Tennessee; and when,finally, it is added that reports of insurrection had been arriving allthat year from Rio Janeiro, Martinique, St. Jago, Antigua, Caraccas, andTortola,--it is easy to look at with what prolonged distress the accumulatedterror must have weighed down upon Virginia during the two fortnights thatNat Turner lay hid.