The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-11-03
with Sc Gen, Brown. .,,..A An
Ohio Donghface Seeking for Light...A
DiSgraceful Exhibition.

PSiiSStiy iiSuO lOi huy Ouc 10 interfere
with you so far as to free those you
willfully and wickedly hold in bonds.
| do not say this insultingly.
Mr.. Mason-I understand that.
Brown think / did right, and that
others will do right who interfere with
you at any time and all times. hold
that the golden rule, Do unto others as
you would that others should do unto
you, applies to all who would help 9TH
ers to gain their liberty.
Lieutenant Stuart-But you don't
believe in the Bible.
Certainly l do.
Mr.. Mason-Did you consider this a
military organization on this paper p
showing copy of the so-called consti-
tuition and ordinances-I have not yet
read it.
81 did in some measure. l wish
yon would give that paper your close
attention.
Mr.. M.-You consider yourself the
Commander-in-chief of this provision
al military force?
B.-I was chosen agreeably to the
ordinance of certain document, Com
mander-in chief of that force.
Mr.. M.-What wages did you offer?
B.-None.
Lieut.. Stuart.-Thc wages of sin is
death.
B.-I would not have made such a
remark to you if you had been pris-
oner, and wounded, in my hands.
Mr. Vallaudigham-Where did your
men come from; did some of them
come from Ohio?
B.-Some of them.
Mr.. V.-From the Western Reserve
of course, none came from Southern
Ohio?
Bob, yes; believe one came
from below Steubenville, down not far
from Wheeling.
Mr.. V.-Have you been in Ohio
this summer?
B.-Yes, sir.
Mr.. V.-IIow late
B.-I passed through Pittsburgh on
my way here in June.
Mr.. V.-Were you at any County
or State Fairs there?
B.-I was rot there since June.
Mr.. V.-Where you ever in Dayton
B.-Yes, must have been.
Mr.. V.-This summer?
B.-No; year or two since.
Mr.. V.-Have you lived long in
Ohio?
B.-I went there i'm 1905; lived in
Summit county which was then Trum
bull county; my native place is York
State.
Mr.. V.-Do you recolIect a man in
Ohio, named Brown, noted counter.
feiter?
B.-I do; / knew him from boy
his father was Henry Brown, of Irisl
or Scotch descent; the family were
very low.
Mr.. V.-Have you ever been in Por.
tage couty?
B.-I was there in June last.
Mr.. V.-When in Cleveland, did
you attend the Fugitive Slave Law
Convention?
B.-No; l was there about the time
of the setting of the Court to try the
Oberlin rescuers; | spoke there pub
licly on that subject; spoke on the
Fugitive Slave Law, and my own res
cue, of course; so far as / had any
reference at all, was disposed to jus
tify the Oberlin people for rescuing 6
slave, because have myself forcibly
taken slaves from bondage; l was
concerned in taking eleven slave,
from Missouri last winter think
spoke in Cleveland before the Conven
tion; do not know that had any con
versation with any of the Oberlin res
cuers; was sick part of the time in
Ohio; had the ague; was part of the
time in Ashtabula county.
Mr.. V.-Did you see anything O
Joshua r.. Giddings there?
B.-I did meet him.
Mr.. V.-Did you consult with him
B.-If l did l would not tell you, o
course, anything that would implicatt
Mr.. Giddings, but l certainly saw hin
and had conversation with him.
Mr.. V.-About that rescue case?
B.-Yes, l did hear him express his
opinion on it very freely and frankly
Mr.. V.-Justifying it.
B.-Yes, sir; | do not compromis'
him in saying that.
Mr.. V..-Who were your advisersi, i,
this movement?
B.-I have numerous sympathiser'
throughout the entire North.
Mr.. Vim Northern Ohio.
B.-No; no more than anywhere
else in all the Free States.
Mr.. V.-But you were not personal
ly acquainted in Southern Ohio?
B.-Not very much.
Mr.. V.-Werc you at the convention
last June?
i B.-I was; want you to under
stand, gentleman, that / respect th
rights of the poorest and weakest O
the colored people oppressed by tn
slave system, just as much as l d,
those of the most wealthy and power
ful; that is the idea that has moves
me, and that alone. We expected nj
reward. We expected the satisfaction
of endeayoring to do for them IN dis