Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-11-12

The insurrection at IIarper's Ferry, Shich
started the public yesterday morning, though Suf.
fccnty alarming at the ouset, ,yroves to have BEEN
butfa short lived affair. 1t was very speedily
crashed by the formidable military forces brough,
against it from Washington, Baltimore and Virgin
Ia but, unhappily. not without serious loss of life
The parties actively engaged in it seem never to
have numbered over fifty or sixty, though ten times
that number were before the close of the affair in.
duced or coerced into an apparent support of the
movement. 81 lar as appears, it was not the re-
suit of any combination amoLg the slaves them
selves but was merely the explosion Of q cumsy y
plot concocted by single man--John Brown, OF
Kansas notoriety with the aid of his two sons and
one or two other accompces.
Brown, it will be remembered, suffered eeverely,
in the loss OF his property and in the death Of one
Of his sons, during the reign Of rufiansm in Kan
sas. lie was fearless, fanatical, energetic old
man to begin with, and the death or his son made
him nearly frantic. Ilav,rg sworn vengeance
against the authors Of bis calamties he made him.
self very conspicuous. and universally dreaded BIZ
the rufhans. during the subsequent troubles in
Kansas. lie was the leader Of the fight at Osa-
watome where he is said TO have killed several OF
the invading borderers with his own hand. Alter
the troubles in Kansas had been queted, Browns
uneasy spirit extended its resent mt to the Mis-
sourians. ard especially the slaveholders, whom
be regarded as the authors Of his wrongs lie
entered into plots for promoting the escape Of their
slaves, and succeeded in getting twenty thirty Of
them away, and in SO alarming the sllveholders
shfou ghout that section Of the State
that they forthwith commenced sending
their slaves TO the Southern States. lie him
self escaped unharmed and came, it now appears
over year ago to the neighborbood of uarper's
Ferry, and commenced preparations to renew his
operations in Virginia. It the very general
belief Of those who knew him in Kansas that
Btpsn, after the death Of his son, became insane
upon this subject; and hs proceedings 10 this af-
fair certainly gives countenance to the belief. A
wilder and more hopeless project than that in
which he embarked cannot well be imagined.
There seems to be no reason for believing that
tho plot had any extensive ramifcations, or that
any further danger is to be apprehended. Yet the
affair can scarcely fail to starte the public mind
in Virginia, and it may have the same effect as
Browns movements bad in Missouri, and increase,
largely and rapidly, the transfer Of slaves from
Virginia to the more southern States. Every such
outbreak from whatever causes it may spring
quickens the public Of the insecurity of slave
on the borders of the savehodiug
States, and SO tends to the removal southward Of
that frontier.
AS o matter Of course, the violent partisan
prints will seek to make the most Of the affair
But We no reason for supposiDg that it had any
whatever with any political
movement, or that any party can with
justice be held responsible for it. 1t seems
to have been the work of o single man,
smartbg under sense Of personal wrong aud in
saney seeking to uvenge them upon whole COM
munity. lie will probably pay the penalty of his
rash insanity with his lie, and leave, We trust, no
nhcri!ors Of his passion or his late,