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The Harper-a FerryCommittee.A witness before the senatorial Harper’s Ferry Committee. after delivering his testi ■ mony, comes to ilie following conclusions:I. That this government is nut. ad minis* tered on economical principles, This mor-• mug Senator ilason banded me au order ou the secretary of the senate for two hundred aud leu dollars—in return for which he has twenty pages of foolscap, nothing at leu dollars and fifty oen ts a page. For a similar am on lit ol equally valuably rubbish Richard Realf collared over six hundred dollars, federal currency. Augustus Wattles' tool* about three hundred ftud fifty dollars in mileage: Arny ft. like amount; and so it goes. The investigation will not cost' less than one hundred • thousand dollars when the bills are all footed, and ihc net results will not he worth one hundred red cents. •II. That the committee will not be ready to report before the presidential election.—■ All the evidence taken thus far washes the republican party clean of Johii Brown and Harper's Ferry. This is not the entertain-meat to. which the investigators invited themselves. They will manage to slave off the printing of the testimony, on one plea or another, till next winter. They will pretend that important witnesses m*e still wanting. They will not give the country a glimpse of iheii* report this season. They will not contribute that electioneering document to the republican side, if it the court understand herself.”III. I conclude, lastly. thut John Browtf s purpose was to get together four or live hundred slaves, put, rifles in the bands of the more intelligent and pikes into those of the remainder, and entrench himself in the mountains. In lbe fastnesses which he had selected ho coaid hare maintained himself for thirty days acral list any force which could have been sent against him. The news of the insurrection would have spread like wild tire north and south. It would have peuLdrfttecl through the thick darkness which envelope liio slave population. It would have carried an indescribable panic to every southern plantation and fireside, It-woaid have sent him reinforcements from hundreds of negro quarters. When troops wore sent north to cut off his retreat lo: Canada, he would have marched south. His presence in Tennessee and the Carolioas.! would have created a pandemonium in whose cojilusion and terror he expected that slaver ry would somehow, in some undefined way, have an end. If ho (Brown I should hap-
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Weekly Gazette and Free Press
Janesville, Wisconsin, US
Fri, Mar 09, 1860
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