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Talley.lean. *, 1859.r 2Q, in , or coaltions ining into jbt, and both aslanufac-iminons innel or lere areinel andom can-lardneasi a clear,' s name. 1 a8 well ika with‘ it does.oal tield; I know anawhain the if it are can be re found n Ohio, itumin-ompari-g Kana-InterfJew between C.ov. Wise and A. II*Lew in, o t Akron.A. H. Lewis, Esq., of Akron, went to see Gov. Wise just before the execntion of John Brown, to learn from that Executive the fate of the appeal made in Brown's behalf on the ground of insanity. In his notes of the trip, he gives the particulars of his interview with Gov. Wise, as follow:Gov. Wise received me. selfintroduced, with entire civility. I stated to him that I was theferson who had sent the dispatch to Messrs. aulkner and Botts, before the trial of Brown respecting his supposed insanity;—that with others, I had been instrumental in causing to be sent him affidavits respecting Brown's actual insanity; that we have never learned what judgment he had formed or what action, if anv, he had taken in the matter.Gov. W. replied that he examined those affidavits with the utmost care and candor, butthey failed to convince him of Brown’s insanity. “I have examined Brown, too,” he said, “with whatever skill I possess for such an inquiry. liis mind is uncommonly clear and coherent. There is no aberration, no insane delusion. His eye has none of the wandering or unsteadiness observable in lunatics whose minds are active. His conversation is as clear, as free from aberration as any man’s I ever saw.“1 do not think it proper for the Executive to institute the iuquiry, unless he believes Brown to be insane. 1 do not believe him so.”I remarked that the Harper’s Ferry scheme itself was one which no sane mind would ever have formed.He replied:—“On the contrary, Brown’s project was most skilfully planned. He was misled, it is true, by the false information which Cook gave him, as to the disposition of the Slaves; but assuming, 51s he did, that information was true, the project in its outline and details was one of consummate strategy. No, Sir, that enterprise was not planned by a crazy man.“Did I believe him insane—if I could even entertain a rational doubt of his perfect sanity —I w ould stay his execution even at this hour. All Virginia should not prevent me. I would sooner sever this (right) arm at the shoulder thau permit his execution even now. But 1have no such belief, no such doubt.“No, Sir. His wife says he was only executing a purpose he had cherished for twenty years. He lias brooded on this for twenty years, Sir. It has been the master idea of his life. He is nfanatic, Sir, not a crazy man.Mrs. Childs says he is not insane. Weudsll Phillips says he is not insane; his wife says he is, not insane; and Gov. Wise says he is notigsane. ”WISE^EAXLT FEARS ATTEMPT AT RESCUE.I remarked to Gov. Wise, that, residing as I did, in Northern Ohio, in the section where Brown had lived the most of his life, and being well acquainted with some of his relatives, and w ith hundreds who knew him, I deemed it proper to say that I did not know a single individual, or believe there was one, whoever entertained the idea of at tempting, a rescue of Brown. Had such au idea existed there, it must have come to my knowledge.He replied at great length—talking in emphatic tones, but not loud,—tlueut, but not rapid, indeed without showiug any thingnwre than a stimulating excitement. lie reasoned from the number of xympathizers who had addressed him in behalf of Brown, from all parts of the North,—men of all grades of education and social position, solar as might be inferred from the letters—that so strong was the sympathy for Brown, the feeling would and must have led to armed interference in his behalf, had sueh movement not been prevented by the preeautionary measures taken, and the strong force assembled to prevent such rescue.Besides, the men who furnished him money, arms, munitions of war, for this enterprise, and urged Brown into it, must be insensible to shame if they did not make such attempt, if they could do so with any chance of success.Letters he had received giving him information of such plans, so minute, circumstantial and tallying with each other, that he could not doubt such a design had existed, and but for tiie presence of a strong force would have been earned into effect.I remarked to him that one might hear perhaps, though I never had, some swaggerer say tc would be one to go and rescue Brown. But it needed but a limited knowledge of human nature to pronounce it mere gasconade. The man who publicly said such a thing would bethe very last man to enlist in such an enterprise.He said that was tnie, but proceeded at great length to show that there were certainly combinations and conspirators at the North, for the rescue of Brown.WISE, 1.1 KE BROWN. WRONGHEADED BUT SINCERE. ,The conversation was mainly upon the topics already referred UT\ Ineidently, however, Gov. \\ ise spoke of Cook as the most detestible criminal of them alr^ind who, if it were possible in any manher ttrMnd excuse for commutation for the reat, deserved hanging and nothing else.He narrated quite minutely an account of interviews with Brown in prison, and described his manner very graphically. He used no reproachful term regarding ftrowu. His conversation with Brown as related by him, I have noted, but they are not probably*of sufficient general interest to warrant publication.The interview was protracted much beyond wnat I exported. Mr. Wise Is an interestingtalker, however widely the listener may differfYom him. It was my belief before this interview that the military parade and displayalong the frontier was a sort of clap trap procedure for political aims. 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Cincinnati Daily Commercial
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Mon, Dec 19, 1859
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