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Another Expose.Au extract from a private letter, dated North Elba, N. Y., from a near neighbor of Mrs. John Brown, to a friend in Alexandria, Virginia:“I don’t write this to inflame your mind against them, only to let you know what a brute that old Brown is.The trouble at Harper’s Ferry is nothing more than could have been expected, for wherever they are there Is trouble. At our town meeting here, Lamon Brown, Henry Thompson and Hugh Brown had knives open ready to use.I supjwse they were the same that they had in Kansas. They have made their threats that they would drive all the democrats down South at the point of the bayonet; but I tell you, we gave our minds to them good and strong. We tell them, any man that upholds John Brown’s raid at Harper’s Ferry, ought to be served like him,—for such an outrageous act never was heard of. He was an old heathen. The way he lived was by meddling with others’ business all his life. While in Kansas, he was rather victorious, but what were his opponeuts? men hired for what rum they could drink; then he thought he could conquer the whole world, but when he went to Old Virginia, he found something more than drunken rowdies to contend with. He met just what he merited, and what he deserved before.Gov. Wise did nobly and manfully; he set a pattern for all wise men to follow. If men will not obey the laws of our land, let them abide the consequence.Old Virginia has set a noble pattern, and may her sister States follow her example. I feel proud to mention her name;I feel proud to tell jieople that I have relatives that live there, and that they do not uphold old Brown's murderous plan. Oh, how my heart has ached for those suffering ones at Harper’s Ferry! What must have been their feelings to have a band of murderers and thieves come upon them without a moment’s warning, and commence murdering their unoffending citizens? In some parts of the country there is a sympathy for old Brown’s family; but not so here—I mean in this town. They have but few who sympathize with them; they are too well known. If their friends abroad could but have seen what indifference was manifested by their neighbors, they would cease to feel for them, I am .'lire. They tell what a noble woman Mrs. Brown is; but she is an ignorant, sujier-stitious, weak minded woman, and is not capable of containing but one idea. She says she wants nothing to do with any one I hat does not think just alt; she does. That, in my estimation, shows ignorance and want of mind to hold an argument. They have had some letters in the Tribune with her name to them, but they were not of her composition. She employed a man to do that; she has written ouly a few letters, but she has had a great many sent to hoi*. She will not have so many hi a year from now.”
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Banner of Liberty
Middletown, New York, US
Wed, May 02, 1860
Page 11
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