The Kansas herald of freedom., 1859-11-05

ecution of his war schemes. When Mont
gomery discovered Brown & Co.'s plans
of revolution, to his credit be it said, he
protested, and in consequence of their
quarrel, probably, more than anything
else, the latter made a brilliant coup ID
etat into Missouri, killed Crew, took his
slaves and made forced march to Cana
da, receiving any amount of "aid and
comfort from his cohorts along the route.
At this time Doy was arrested in viola |
ton of law, and removed outside of Kan
sas. Then the excited lightnings flashed
again. Lane harangue1 crowds nightly
in Lawrence. He was ready 20 march
into Missouri, and release him by vio-
lence, and all the indorsers of "bloody
issue" cried, amen. But their schemes
all failed, and the principal public actor,
who had courage and desperation sufficient
to carry into execution his plans, without
regard to cost and who, in the interim,
had returned to Kansas, took his leave.
and determined upon Immediately con-
summating plans long since laid for opera
ton elsewhere, should he fail in again
embroiling the people of the Kansas bor-
der. We allude to Old John Bro,On.
Their next point of attack was Virginia.
ELI THAYER, of Massachusetts,, had pro-
jected a peaceful demonstration to the
people of that State, of the advantages of
educated free labor over slave labor, and
had located colony there which was in
successful operation, and was winning
golden opinions by its quiet, orderly ac-
ton. But "Old Brown" and his sympa-
thizers, who only saw through revolu-
ton the end of American slavery"
marched into the State, hired farm in
the vicinity of Harper's Ferry, and there
projected their iniquitous work-the ex-
citing of servile insurrection. But Brown
did not go alone. John E. Cook, who
figured SO conspicuously with the Do
Nothings in Kansas, was with him, and
was his fright bower" Kagi was his
cleft" whilst Cappie, Hazlett, Anderson
and Evans, of jay-hawking notoriety,
were prominent actors. Whether Redpatz
was there we are not advised; but theil
sympathizers and co-operators in Kan.
sas were posted in all the movements Of
these men, and but short time before
the breaking out of the difficulty at Har.
per's Ferry, some of them were trying tC
hire money in Lawrence with which t.
pay their expenses to the scene of con
y templated strife, no doubt designing t.
{ raise the means to refund the borrowed
money from the sale of watches, jewelr,
I and plate" which the Constitution of tn,
t organization provided should be used t,
' defray the expenses of the war.
D The whole plan of the organization
e mode of operation, &c, it seems, has beel
: known in Kansas for long time. W
e are told by parties who were in the secret
that the plan of Old Brown & Co. was +
f strike such bold and vigorous blow as t
o intimidate the entire population of Viz
d ginia and the South, who are known t
: be exceedingly timorous over their slav
population. With his few immediate SUP
= porters he was to take possession of tn
T. armory, while others, with teams, were t
J. carry the arms and military supplies I
IS the mountains. In those Businesses h
l. was to erect his independent standar'
ir around which the negroes were to assen
le BILE. A secret organization, permeatir
m all sections of the North, with powerf
10 backing in Kansas, was to furnish recruit
of Thus strengthened they would be able
ID bid defiance to State and Federal autho
" ity, and though seven years war shou
w follow, or though it should be protract'
ID through half a century, they would ke
n alive their movements, acting mostly u
as on the defensive at first, till the negro
,st of the Canadas and of the South oou
NO give them sufficient strength to JUST
aggressive movements.
as We do not wish to implicate innoce
on persons, and we believe, yea, we knc
in we do not do it, if the statements of OF
,er ers can be relied upon, when we say Il
Die GERRIT SMITH, of New York, man
ie. noble impulses, and generous to a fau
as was a tool of these designing men, a
he too cheerfully has entered into their pla
out and furnished them "material aid.'
,tt, While we love him for his philanthro]
ese his devotion to Kansas in the darkest hc
up of her history, and for his heavy COM
th, buttons in aid Of the right and the
= pressed, we cannot sympathize with
ind hostility to the federal government d
ur- his readiness to engage with mad-mer
ted an attempt to overthrow it.
he The movement at Harper's Ferry n
The appear to be an insignificant affair,
was interested parties will endeavor to M
ion, it appear such. Since its failure, ev
ers, one will deny being cognizant of it,
nen "Old Brown, the monomaniac," will
ong held responsible for it all but as we {
last week, "there was method in his m
It of ness" and that eye of his, sparkling v
did fire, spoke secrets to the initiated that
,ton world knew not of.
ow- As frequently stated, the whole
ping gramme was developed to us Will
ath- prisoner, charged with high treason, in
tive summer of 1856, with the exception
,ery the field of operations then contempl'
rife. has been removed from Missouri to
son, ginia. When we FIRST learned of it
lass resolved to resist the conspiracy,
Seep what it would, and we have done