The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1859-11-09
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roughly Virginian View Of thC
Policy Of Hanging Hin.

From the Richmond Enquirer. edited by a son Of
Governor Wise.)
The New York Advertiser bess the Ex.
ecutye Of Virginia not t. lake martyr Of
Brown that being fanatic he is insane
certainly to some degree, and our New York
cote mporary fears direfu consequences will
spring from his execution. That as the
blood OF the martyrs was the seed of the
Church, so from the grave Of John Brown
the Advertiser fears crop Of armed fanatics
may spring up destructive to Virginia and
the South. 1t would, perhaps, have been
more to the point to have shown that the
pardon CT Brown would have lessened the
number OF existing fanatics rather than by
suggesting their increase from due course
OF justice. But we opprehend the Executive
OF Virginia will not turn an attentive ear TO
suggestions coming from such source as the
New York Commercial Advertiser. The
Republican party, of which the Advertiser is
an organ, is too deeply implicated in the &C,
tions of their chief leaders to offer sugges.
tions with regard to the just punishment of
one of their number.
The Constitution Of Virginia has placed
the mercy seat in the enlightened concience
OF her Executive, and that the high prerog.
alive of pardon has not been merciless sly eX,
ercsed we point to long list of Executive
/ clemencies that grace the Administration OF
Gov. Wise. But in oil the pardons granted
by him neither the crime nor the motive Of
Brown find any place. To cool and calcu.
lated crime to murder, pilluge and pIunder
to servie wars and it's attendant horrors,
the Executive of Virginia will always turn
deaf ear, and soil not the robes of mercy
with the crime Of permitting such wickedness
to 90 unpunished.
Violated laws and murdered citizens de.
mand a victim at the hands OF Justice il
Brown is crezed fanatic, irresponsible eli
ther in morals or law, there are yet guilty
parties. He is the agent of wicked princi.
pals. II the Northern people believe Brown
insane, what punishment is due to those
who have poisoned his mind with the SIRE
pressible conflict" and spurred his fanati
cisn to deeds of blood and carnage? H,
may be insane, but their are other Grim
inals, guilty wretches, who instigeted the
crimes perpetrated at Harper's Ferry
Bring these men-bring Seward, Greeley
GiddiDgs, Hale and Smith to the jurisdic
ton of Virginia, and Brown and his deude'
victims in the Charlestown Jail may hop
for psrdon. In the opinion OF Virginia tn
five Republican leaders above mentioned ar
more guilty than even John Brown and hi
associates. An ignorant fanaticism may b
pleaded in palliution of the crime of Brown
but the five Republican leaders would spur
such a stultifyiDg plea They would no
compromise their intelligence even at tn
cost of their mortality. Let the friends o
Brown, let all who believe him to be insane
and ell who intend to represent him as
crazy fanatic, for whoee folly no party is re
sponsibe, deliver up Seward, Greeley, Gid
diags, Smith and Hale. A fair trial, at thei
own time, with their own counsel, will b.
freely given them ; and if Virginia does no
J prove them guilty, they too shall 60 unhur,