Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1859-11-02

retary Of the Massachusetts, Emierant Aid
Society, and Hove we'll knowa abolition
ist Of boaion, kept palteripg with Forbes
until, IN thu words efone Of Bis own letters,
his iamily's cftditwas stopptd at lhe French
or Italian restaurant where they used &c get
their meals Forbes btoams Indignant
against Brown aud the humanitafians, as he
styles them, and denounced theti 40 in
| pretty round terms. But stil the troubles Of
I bis family did not woa them altogether
from the work to which he had lent his
hand On the contrary, ho devised plan
which 10 submitted 10 bis aboliiionist
friends North 70 perform tfsctually The
Kansas work that Gerrit Smith speaks Of
ia his letters
Forbes plan was simply an organized
eystom Of stampeding slaves along the Dor.
der States, aud thus gradually driving the
institution farther South. Browns project
was declared-s0 long ago as May, lS5S--to
be identcally that which has bad such a
miserable failure at Harpers Ferry Forbes
was too experienced a siager not to sec the
inevitable result Of such a ridiculous pro,
jeot and much Of bis correspondence that
has fallen into our hands is taken up with
de 'unciations Of 3rown's crazy idea, and Of
appeals 70 the leading republicans to stop
Brown or to denounce him
II appears beyond all peradyenture, by
this correspondence, that among the persons
to whom he denounced the Harpar's Ferry
project, year and half ago, was Senator
Wm II Seward He had an interview with
that Senator in Washington city in May,
1898 aud, as appears by one Of his letters,
he went fully into the whole matter Again,
he had interviews with sumner and Hale,
also in Washington; and, in fact, II appears
that all the leading republicans and aboli-
tionists OF the country were fully cognizant
OF the plans OF Brown, and, il they did not
actually identify themselves with bin, they
did not denounce him to the authorities -
On the contrary, they kept him furnished
with money aud arms, and carried on cor,
respondencs with him
( Forbes letters show another thing. I hey
show that it was not alone a feeling Of phi,
lanthropy, nor even political motiye, that
led these New England and New York Alb,
olitionists to encourage old Brown Of Ossa
watamie Something more than ali that
was at the bottom Of the movement And
whaU Speculation in the rise Of cotton had
more TO do with the Harper's Ferry uup
! break than all other causes combined The
correspondence places that beyond a doubt
Old Brown told Forbes that member Of
the house Of Lawrence, Stone u Company
! Celebrated for the SS7 900 free wool move,
ment in Congress, low years ago) had
I promised him So 000 If he sueoeeded in his
/ tiarper's Ferry dash But Forbes, like a
blunt soldier who had gone into the thing as
a military speculation solely, could not un'
derstand making commercial speculation
out Of it, and so he denounced the project
as bitterly and obstinately as old Dagetty
himself could have done
Ths main thing proved by this cores
pOndenoe il, that for the last year and
half at least, the project of the Harper's
Ferry outbreak was well known to Seward,
Summer, Hale and others, and that they, in
intense sellishness and to forward their ,po,
liticAl or commercial speculations, suffered
the project to ripen and to bear the disas>
trous fruit that il has borne They--not
the crazy fanatic John Brown--are the real
calprits and i is they, not he, who, if JUS
tiee were fairly meted out, would have to
grace the galows.