Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-10-22

border with the proceeds oftheir foraging. The
captured hissourans were then set at liberty
aud told TO 90 homo and raise a rcscuing force.
Brown q Co. would give them anp tue
aud await their return, wheu they would settle
the qu,stions at issu by open battle. A very
loud uOise was made In half a dozen couuties
ia Missouri, b It no volunteers were found for
the proposed action. After waiting three weeks
Brown dismissed all but q handful Of his com.
pauy, aud took his liuo Of march through Kau-
cas-, Nebraska, lowe, Illinois and Michigan to
Canada. While pursuing his journey through
he northern pant Of Klusas, he was mcnacpd
With an attack from party Of Miesourans, of
about three times hrs own number After re-
treating from them day OF two, he came to
halt took four Of them prisoners, and put the
rest 10 flights The prisoners were lecturcd
soundly on the evil OF ltir ways, ,and then dis
missed minus their arms and horses Noothcr
interruption was met with on the way to Cana-
da.
This w,s Browns last appearance in Kansas.
Fruui HAT time forth March 1851 his move
ments weir so well concealed that his most IN.
innate acquaiutances in Kansas supposed mm
to be in England. The liar er's Ferry trago
dy fls the curtain on his mysterious footsteps
Tor the last six months
Ia person, Brown is about five feet eight in
ches IN height. lie has short gray hair, and
dyersifcs his appearance with IRON gray whis-
kcrs and moustache to suit the dangerous exig
oucies Of bis situation. Ills appearance is that
OF intense peaoeiulness, combined with hopeless
vordaucy. To the casual observer, ho is tho
most inollensive man that could be met with
in a days rde through Arcadia. His rural
exterior has enabled him to pass unscathcd
through scores Of pcrils, where his lie would
have paid the forfeit Of his discovery. IL is be
leved by many OF those who knew him in Kan
sas that The butchery Of his sun Frederick made
him monomaniac on the subject Of slavery,
and that lie had made vow to wreaka great
revenge on the system of society which had
wrought so deep wrong on him. But Brown
himself reI udiatcd this irca, cOntCndng that re-
venge was no part Of his composition, and
claiming 10 be guided strctly 10y the principles
of Holy Writ lie seems to have been laboring
under religious hallucinaliont to the effect that
he was the appointed instrument of tue Almigh
ty for putting an end to human slavery
What time he and lis handful of men in Kansas
were not marching or fighting, they were pray
ing and singing psalns-Browu hims elf pas
sing many hours wrestling in secret prayer
His evident halucnation caused all the clear
headed men in Kansas to avoid him or to have
as little az possible to do with him The same
feeling made him dreaded 10y the Misscurans
as supernatural being. Ills name inspired
the same terror on tire horder, as the MEX of
the Woods among the Indians Of Kentucky,
or that of the Cid among the Moorish hordes OF
| Spain. 1t was name to fright children to bed
with. No further evidence Of his insanity could
be required 10y commission dc lURatico than
the late hair.brained movement mt lIarper's
Ferry, an act whichWm. L. Garrison or Wendell
Phillips would pronounce sinful waste of hu-
man life. These men may applaud the moral
principle which led Brown into the fatal emuie
but no man in his senses can say that it is not
the most crozy development which the slave
history Of this country affords. The blind in
surrection on the Cumberland River some three
years ago becomes well maturcd conspiracy
compaied With this.-C Chicago Press.