The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1859-11-18

feed on the women and children OF their own
Party-they devour only such of their enemies
as they can catch. II. FORBES.
The next letter rs 10 The same person, and IS
prefacec by the following head note
On the 18th January Mr.. Sanborn replied to
mine Of the 9th. He explained that be had
done much 10 aid the cause that he mad caused
50 600 in money and arms 10 be given TO Capt.
Blown, also $4,000 to b. voted for by The
Chicago committee, of which he had received
$500; also, had done many other things Of
similar natarr--as $500, recently, for 'secret
ice"--addlRg that, ii be had known OF The
engagement between Captain B. and myself,
he would have supported my wife and children,
rather than allow what has happened to take
place.
SECRET SERVICE MONEY.
The 5000 for secret service you sp"sk of as
being enough ior the pufposr, Is not enJrgh
Tins Is another error, and Serinus one.
INTERVIEW WITH SEWARD.
Washington, .May6, lS56.-To DR.. 8. G.
Howe, NJ D., Boston, Mass: On Saturday (Ist
May had an inierv lew with Senator VIM
II. Seward, of New York, having been intro
tuced TO him through letter from leading
A5oilionIst, DR.. Bailey, oil ;hp Era. He ex-
pressed regret that he bad been. told, and said
that hr, in his position, Ought not TO have been
informed otthe circumstances. In part di fer
l regret that the misconduct ofth- Nrw Eug-
landers should have forced me- 10 address NY
self to him; but being now enlightened on the
Suhl-ct, he cannot we'll let this business Con,in-
ue IN lis present crooked condition, instpad Of
-, l., 1
my children's situation, as we'll as the cotton
, speculation OF the humaultaIlans.
Forbes next mentions an accidp niai meeting
witn John P. Hale, but such WAS ih- distress
OF his family that hr did not then refer to
Browns plan.
/ The next leiter is prelaced with the follow
| ing memorandum:
! "Plrase show to Messrs. Sanborn, Lawrence.
! &c. Copies will be sent 10 Governor Chase,
/ who found money, aad Governor Fletcher. who
! contributed arms, aud to others interested, as
! quickly as possible
! The letter referred to in the above is dated
at Washington, ID. c., MAY II, 1858, aad ad-
dressed 10 S. G. Hove, Boston. TGIs irllrr
gives his own and Browns plans OF operating
, or the Southern States FORBES plan was to
oIganIze along tne Southern slave frontier a
series OF slave stampedrS. But the following is
!Lore to the point -
BROWNS PLAN.
Brown had different scheme. He propo-
sed, with some twenty five or fifty tc0ored and
white EliXed; we'll armed, and bringing a guam
tiiy of spare arms, to at up slave quarter in
Virginia To tins objected that, 10 prepaia-
tory noiice having been gwen to lbr slaves (no
notice could, with prudence, De given thr.n,)
the invitation to rise might, unle they wels
already IN a state of agitation, me I allh No re-
Spons-, or allrebie one. To this he replied that
he was sure OF response. He calculated lnat
~ could get, on The first night, from 200 10
800.
Hall, or thrrea5ou's, of his FIRST lot he propa-
sed to keep with Inn, monnung 100 or 81 OF
them, and make a dash at Harp rs Ferry man
uiactory, destroying what be could not carry off,
The other men not Of this party We're 10 br sub
divided into three, four or five drslinCt parties,
zach under two or three OF he original band.
aud would beat up other slave qnarlers, whence
more men would be sent to JOIN him.
or fnfse and many other reasons call -,
You ahd your asSocil:~s to stop Brown, and ,o
lake from hIm your arms, sc. have righ,
10 exact this and do exact it, To vour ass4r-
non mat 10 stop Brown, would d-nouuc. and
oeiray, echo what the Aholltoa,Sfs here
Sdy' that II yoI do not, by taking from hio. ya,r
arms, etc, stop him, you b-tray item. hI his
concerns thr -tbnlIioniSts, ani they have
Fight ~ be heard H. FORRrS
H.