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SOME SHADOWS WHICH WENT BE FORE HIS TRAGIC DEATH. fila Intellectual Equipment ~The Subtor nonewn Pash Way— Wailing for the Hour to Act-Breaking thay Bowl, fOONCLUTED PROM VESPER Y | The SECTS QUWILVS TO SHWE BOQ to eee cutee dential acquaintance. of those active imag e sisting fugstives, and in that way he always knew the few strange characters who went back and forth, like Harriet Tubman, bring ing their people out of bondage. Ufis family were all of them, from earnest days, bred in the spirit of his ideas. He said in Kansas to the water that, except white in Europe for a short time, there was no periods during the “5 years that preceded the Kansas sstraple that he could not have Ton ready within a few days “to take up the Lord's work.” Joon Brown was no land surveyor, and as a youug man had done work of that character in a westerny Mary itd and northern Virginia, Noda was ever hher to seive upon de fensive positions of aaniittary charaer than John Brown or to perceive the virtue of such Seomen of Venti in the warfare he pro posed Pharini the years indicated he went to Europe in pou salt of the wool business be carried on at Springfield, Mass. and while there dt is no record, that he examined closely into all miilitary movements, equilpments, etc. The dows not scem to have framed any efile plans, but he always maintained his purposes all we died patently, like a true reader and believer, for his opportunity, e always said that in every conifiet Drene data wee the victor, if mot toally at the close the qaesinge Fight, then toner raw when the strige hie should be renewed. And sihe acted, for his patient waithi, was also action of the ablime sort. At last the ag gresions of thie occasion, — Th repealed and organised its principle of early part of mind that the family lived at secotal wise men, who was that the issue His elder sons” to be detmined, Trederick and Sa Raides them was hand of Huth, elk 4 ra Se elder for ‘Ashtulala count and Joshua Roudd oom, afterwards kil with Anna and Sar left with her mother, ALSWs on proud places at home, while helping @ which he foresaw ~ stroved, slave system brought the fivsouri compromise Wits tax and Nebraska were cries after the pretended tor sovereignty. In the John Brown ride up his had come. His own h Elba, N. Y., being his children, except Sal- Dito. They all realized force was reached. red oo nuclei not John, Jason, Owen, mM. Were grown Dien ity Thompson, the hus aughter of the family, — in northern Ohio, in “home of Ken Wade £ 4. Oliver and Wat a? Harper's Ferry, @hildren still, were fi North Kiba, Kan tercin to build anew so that Armageddon in very was to be de- In the fall of lag Owen, Frederick and Balnou deft northeg@? Ohio for Kansas, mak inve a settlement, leving out a town named Sand Cawnlomie creek, some Woes south of samawrenees. Early: in the spring of Vaag Quohn, Jr, and Jason, Capt. Brown's eldest a Mis. followed their brothers, ‘ h u ce Vy, n ey vith their tapyyifaes, bathe sanuner of 1s55, with Honey ‘Ti Qeepson, John Brown himself ft North HARPS N.Y. hile sons having’ rgenthy by Ban to procure them ur ad ammunit poh wherewith they anight we re cave “Aidnist, the armed Mis sous, ol, Brower Rule Came on, broupsht sueh Werpams is he Wend oritain, and entered heartily into the defense of the free state oemuse Aboom Tand surveyor hee penetrated the Missouri slavery camps, seekingg all the time toe find those who would act with him in te work of mehoir clavery umusafe. de be cane, as is known to histery, the one su preme fire nog Ophter in the menorable free state strode, hat was essential and natural, as he had no compromises to offer or omiake. Noo one in the territory really knew his ulterior purposes. Made famous by his courage and skill, Capt. Brown came Bast in the winter of ISS and “57, and in Boston met Pheodore Parker. That sagm vinus, Intereet had operally probounced for the same thing that John Brown had resolved upon. How aac Mr Parker learned of the captain's plans cannot now be himown. But it i quite certain that a smal aan. of influential and wealthy men did know enough of data) Treawn's ulterior plans Winch then, and for some time afterwards, related directly foo dates as the place of operations= to let him have money, and also to place dm his charge, the arms that re medorate of these purchased for the use of the free state unien in Kansas., He returned to Kansas in the summer of Ieoa for the purpose evidently of carrying tart his designs. he drew together among the young omenda Kansas a kmail body how he thought could be relied Won as Soadeas. He selected a Quaker settleament, pringhide, Cedar county, Java, whiereith to ‘tablish a school of military instruction. Ann Moglisiman, named Hagsh Forbes, who had been with Garibaldi in Sicily and who was posenad of remarkable capacity for teadh ing on partie warfare, went with them. Forbes got an idea that Republican leaders overedn this movement, and afterwards, under the failure to receive money, wrotebde name inolin Brown and threatening ex pose to Greeley, Wilson and others. So was the appecition aversed by this fact that Droge be abeut the Canada (Chatham) cons evition on the securing of ottion means of sUpport. The nou who went from Koansas to Towa were dein Hheneyagi, Adron PD. Stevens, Mivorge J. Gail, Richard Roplt (the pol), OW. Malet, dolar Kilwin Cook, Duke Parsons, Goore Planer Todd and William Leoni Afterward, in the fall of 188, Jobo Prowa Woe joined ii southern Bauias By Albert Tivalett. Fle broweit with hin from tos Babi and Harchay Coppie, and widest for saileheat reasons ly Gall Baar: eeceencud siatett, Ta Kamen by the fall of 244 there were enacted the ehosi ap,econo of the free state war, ‘The murders farewin as the Marnes des CYpanies vacos merely” In Which eleven free state men were left for dead by Minwourd invaders; the resitance to United States troupe by Capt. Mont gomery and bis men, and the capture of Fort Heatt by the forces of John Brown were all part of that exerting autumn. 11 Decem ber of Ts8John Brown with his men, main ly those who with him fought and were slain at Harper's Ferry and Charleston, Va, en tered Missouri and brought out of Butler county eleven slaves. Lie proved by this act and subsequent events that in part his plans of striking at shivery were seasible, for he carried ‘them out bisafely through Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Ulingis, Indiana and Ohio to Canada, crossing at Detroit, Midh At the time he plunged the rescue of these slaves from Missouri he may have designed to make his stand wishy .OP Raffeld, how ever, he was pleaded with s:, opon whom he had coinfidence that Kansy was so har assed and driven that she real: not properly bear the additional burden his actions would necessarily incur and bring upon her. Then John Brown formed his final resolution, as is made evident by what he said to Agustus Wattles, of Moneka, Linn county, Kansas. He told him that he, John Brown, would relieve Kansas completely. He intimated he would strike a blow elsewhere. Kagi, in a long conversation with the writer, held at Oxsa watomie on the farm of the Rev. Mr. Adair, the captain's brother-in-law, during the varky parto of November, told in plain words that the blow would be struck in the south ern Apalachian range, at a point somewhere which would affect Virginia, and enable the party to operate from the mountains to the lowerer valley regions. The purpose was not that of insurrection, technically speak ing, but to make slavery unsafe, by showing how it could be uptorn and disturbed through the efforts of a few resolute men, John Brown returned in the fall of 18a8 to one old idea in the selection of Harper's Ferry. He took out his Missouri freed people in order to give confidence to his men and Induce the very few persons of means who trusted him to aid him. 66 more and inte the end. After January, 185), for several months, Brown almost disappeared. He hired the Kennecy farm and Lean to ship his arms and equipments there. The purpose was thiss .To attack Harper's Ferry at night, burn the raiload bridge and cut the tele graph wires, gather a body of slaves and re rent to the monies before sunrise, and so as early as possible commence rending fugi tives or frenc: people into Pennsylvania. The balance of the command would remain in the mountains making raids into the rich Virginia valley, electing, the colored men and women who were to be removed. Each man in Browns party was trained to com mand other small porties. He had 200 Sharpe's rifles, with 1,600 pikes, and could reasonably calculate upon obtaining such considerable number of arms from the rifle works and armory at the Ferry as he could make use of. In the end, and not a very long one either, he s u understood they would all be destroyed and defeatid, but in that meanwhile the crisis would have been reached and slavery made mate. The locality chosen, with the mountain ranges behind, would have afforded an opportunity of dis turbing eastern Kentucky, North Carolina and Tennessee also. Owen Brown, after ward said, to someone who asked what it have been accomplished, as he threw a earthen bowl on the floor and ducked it to pieces: ‘Put that together again.” That was all. The defeated movement at Har per's Ferry cost as it was an enormous sum to suppress, and reduced the value of slave property in Virginia at least $10,000,000. The reasons for defeat seems to have been these: ‘The blow was struck ten days earlier than anticipated. I received at Leaven worth, Kansas, an order to report by the 26th of October, at Chambersburg, Pa. Others received similar instructions. The outbreak occurred on the 16th. Suspicion in furced by the presence of 50 Many men at the Kennedy farm, Maryland, was doubtless the cause of this earlier movement. The first steps miscarried. The wires were not cut, the bridge was not destroyed, and the eastern express train was first stopped at the Ferry, and then allowed to go on, thus enabling the Aarmed passengers to convey the intelligence that a “slave insurrection under John Brown, of Qssawatonic, had begun.” The early alarm defeated the movement, and nothing was left but the gallant fight that followed, the trials, the executions, and the wonderful apathemia of the hero and his martyred men, who dared to fling their lives away in the effort to destroy slavery. Aucitano J, Minton, New York, April 15. A New Departure: As the warm season is now approach ing, when heating stoves can be dis pensed with, I propose to take down, clean and store same at a small expense. Bend your order. Telephone No. 340. M. P. Hennessy,. 64 and 56 Market street.
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