Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1859-10-26
Insurrecti0n of AbOiitiOnistS at
HarDer,S Ferry


In another column will be found the par
ticulars of an Insurrection Of Abolitionists
and Negroes, at Harper's Ferry, town in
Virginia, containing about $500 inhabitants.
There can be no doubt that Brown and his
deluded followers anticipated a servile insur-
rection of the slaves of Virginia and Mary
land as soon as the intelligence of their success
at Harper's Ferry had gained currency in
those States, and believed that in short
time the en- tire Slave population of the South
would soon openly rebel against their masters.
There can be no doubt also. that they had for
aidcrs ard abettors in this unhalowed insur-
rection aud conspiracy. many of the most
prominent of the Abolition leaders in the
Northern States. The inglorious failure of
this rebellion should teach northern fanatics,
to be more careful hereafter, setting the Con-
stitution and Laws of their Country at def
snce.
This Insurrection furnishes beautiful illus
tration of the practical workings of Abolition
alias Black Republican doctrines. Mr., Sc
ward Black Republican leader has said,
that the United States must sooner or later
become either entirely Slave holding Ma
ton, entirely free labor Nation, aud
that there is and must continue 10 be an
irrepreSsiJle conflict between the Northern
and Southern States, until the one section
has triumphed over the other. This doctrine
of Mr.. Stewards is endorsed, ratified and
approved" by every Black Republican and
Abolition leader in the land Brown and
his followers, at Harper's Ferry, were only
practising that which Seward and his disci-
pies have been for years preaching. Doubt
less, the Insurrectionists although defeated,
regard themselves as the heroes of the first
battle fought iu the ilrepressiUe conflict be-
tween the Northern and Southern States.
and therefore entitled to monument to per-
petuate their names and fame to future gen.
erations.
The sectional doctrines upheld and pro-
mulgated by the Black Republicans, irresist-
IDLY tend to produce Instructions in the
Slave States, bordering on the Free States.
1t was doubtless the perusal of Black Rcpub-
lican Tracts, or the listening to the haran-
gues of Black Republican orators, that made
Brown and his followers fanatics. They
were first sent to kansas TO finish their edu
cation" As soon as they had practiced
rebellion against lawful authority there for a
sufficient time to entitle them to a diploma,
they were brought home and sent on an ex-
pedition surrounded by danger and infamy,
but which they were fanatical enough to re-
gard as patriotic and honorable. The ma
jority of them have already met the fate they
deserved The survivors will doubtless have
meeted out to them the punishment due to the
double crime of Treason and Murder, of
which they are clearly guilty.
A number of letters from prominent A bo-
itionists to Brown, promising him assistance
In his enterprise were found iI his possession
These will doubtless all be made public ere
long. Brown states that the Insurrectionists
are thoroughly organized in all the Northern
States, and that he expected the assistance of
5000 men when he commenced the Insurrec-
ton, but was deceived. He says the "fra-
o'J ""o HtsI organized IN 1000, and
that 1t contains many men of wealth and in
fuence. The facts thus far disclosed are
well calculated to excite feelings of alarm in
the breasts of all sincere lovers of the Union,
and the Constitution and the Laws of their
Country. Who now will doubt that the
most disastrous results would follow the cleo
ton of Black Republican President next
year?