The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-10-22

Opinion OF the Captare OF Harper,s Fer.
ry-~Arrest Of Innocent Nles by Mistake.
Ac., Ae.
The interest in affairs at 1taIper's Ferry Is
ended, and public expectation now looks to
Chsrlestowa, Va. where the prisoners are in
a Jail which is guarded with cannon, to pre-.
vent their falling into he hands Of the people.
Joseph Burley, one of the citizens murdered
at the Ferry was buried at Alexandria, We'd
nesday evening. George W. Turner, who
was assassinated by the abolitionists, was a
grandson of General Blackburne, of the rev.
olutionary army, and spent many years of his
life in the L. S. Army. He was gentleman of
wealth, and had retired to his estate in Jeffer-
son county. The mails bring us further in
teresting accounts OF Old Brown and his COM
panions. long interview with him is thus
described in the Baltimore American:
The parties present in the room during the
| conversation. were Senator Mason, Hons.
| Messrs Faulkner and Eailandigham, DIR.
| Bisgs, Lieut. Stuart, LIST cavalry, U. s. a, two
| New York reporters and the writer There
| We're a few other persons came in at times. 10
| see what was going on. A preliminary con-
| yersation was had, which amounted 10 no
more than Inquiries about Browns condition
! for talking, and his reply was he would rather
/ like it, His answers at the time when COM
| mence the full report, are all included in what
| give.
| Sen. Mason--How do you justify your
| acts
| Brown-I think, my friend, you are guilty
of q great wrong against God and humanity.
| | say that without wishing to be offensive. 1t
| would be perfectly right for any one TO inter-
| tere with you, SO far as to free those you will
| fully and wickedly hold in bondage. l do
| not say this insultingly.
/ Mr.. Mason-l understand that.
| Brown-I think did right, and that others
/ Will do right who interfere with yoa al any
| time, and all times. | hold that the golden
4 rule, do INTO others as yon would that Others
should do unto you, applies to all who would
| help others 10 gain their liberty.
! r;eut. Stuart-But you don't believe in the
! Bible
| Rrown-Certainly 1 do.
| Mr.. N9liandigham-Wh Where did your men
| come from Did some of them come from
| Ohio
-Brown--Some of them.
Mr.. E.-From the Western reserved Oi
| conrse none came frosl Southern Ohio q!
| Brown-Oh, yes, 1 believe one came from
! Stenbenviile, down not far from Wheeling.
Mr.. N.-Haye you been in Ohio this sum
! lner.
Brownies, sir.
| aIr N.--How latelyl
Brown passed through to Pittsburg on
! my way in June.
Mr.. Were you At any county or State
! tair there!
/ Brown-I was not there since June.
| Mr.. Mason-Dd you consider this militia.
| ~ organization in this paper Showing q
copy of the so-called constitution and ofdi.
nance) / have not yet read it,
| Brown-I did in some measure. wish you
| would give that paper your close attention.
Mr. M-1ou considered yourself the com.
mander in chief of this provisional military
| force
Brown-I was chosen, agreeable TO the ordi-
| nance ofa certain document, commander-in-
! chief of that force
| Mr.. M.-What wages did you offer
| Brown-Nons.
| Lieut. Stuart-The wages of sin is DEATH
| Brown-I would not have made such a re.
| mark 10 you If you had been Il prisoner and
wounded. in my hands.
| A bv-stander-Did You not promise negro
| in Gettysburg twenty dollars month
| Brown did not.
| By-stander-He says you did.
| MIR. Valandisham-We you ever in Day
| ton, Ohio!
| Brownies, l must have been.
Dir. E.-This summer
Brown-No. A year or two since.
| Mr.. Mason-Does this talking annoy you al
| all!
| Brown-Not in the least.
Mr.. Vallandigham-Hay you lived long in
| Ohio!
| Brown-I went there in 1895. I lived in
| Summit county, which was then Trumbull
| county. My native place is York State.
Mr.. E.-Do you recollect man in Ohio
named Brown, n noted counterteiter
! BroWn--I Go. knew him from boy. His
! father was Henry Brown, of Irish or Scotch
| descent. The family was very low.
Mr. V.-Haye you ever been in Portage
county.
Brown-I was there in June last.
Mr.. WHEN in Cleveland did you attend
the Fugitive Slave Law Convention there!
BroWn-No! l was there about the time of
the sitting of the court 10 try the Oberln res
cuers. spoke there publicly on that subject.
| l spoke on the Fugitive Slave Law and my
| own rescue. OF course so far as had any
preference at all, l was disposed To justify the
Oberlin people for rescuing the slave, because
| have myself forcibiy taken slaves from
bondage. / was concerned in taking eleven
4 slaves from Missouri to Canada, last winter
| I think that spoke in Cleveland before the
| Convention. / do not know that had any
| conversation with any OF the Oberlin rescuers.
was sick part of the time was in Ohio. l
had the ague was part the time in Ashta-
/ buia county.
+ Mr.. V.-Did you seeany thing OF Joshua H.
IEGiddings there!
L Brown-I did meet him.
\, MI. V.-Did you consult with him
Brown-I did. l would not tell you, OF
course, anything that would implIcate Dir
Giddings; but [ certainly met with him and
had a conversation with him.
| Mr.. V.-About that rescue easel
! Brownies, / did. l heard him express
his opinion upon it very freely and frankly.
| MIR. F.-Jusutying it
Brownies, sir. l do not compromise him
! i'll saying that.
A -stander-Did you go out to Kansas
under the auspices OF the Emigrant Aid So
cisy ~ ons,,;oo,
broWnLt9; SIT wen a unuea i,In. .iie
M WIN wnr; answer tbisl bid vou
| .a1t with Giddinrs about your expedition
shama sn WIZ"
I,rnw, No sirt won't answer that. be-
! s,anse = daniaI of II eould not make-and ia
nare nm affidayit of il / would be q great
| dnnna
Mr. VHaye Won had 'any correspondence ce
win nsrties at the North on the subject Of this
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