Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1859-10-31

MOST IMPORTANT DISCLOSURES.
Abolition Correspondence betwceh Col
Forbes and his Abolitionist Friends
His Interview with Seward, Sumner and
Hale -Speculates in the Rise of Cotton
Forbes Denounccs Browns Harpor's
Ferry Project in May, 1858, and Implores
the Black Republicans , Stop it, &c.
We find in the New York Herald, of rslay
batch of letters from person signing himself
II. Forbes which throws some Ii tht on tho recent
transaclionat lIarpcrs Ferry Most of the letters
addressed to +. b. Sanborn. Concord. n. H.,
who was the Secretary of the Massachusett. Em-
grant Aid Society, and from whom Old Brown
knowlcdScd several rcmttances of money
Forbes letters are mostly appeals to the general
abolition commisscriat for pecuniary mid, whichit
seems had been promised, bgt which his Northern
brethren were anxious to cheat him out Of.
In the Herald # Wednesday, Forbes published
n card, wl.ic'. contained menace that the writer
who was cocuizant OF all the plans Of Brown,
woull, after the trial at Charlestown, publish ccr-
tain correspondence which night prove damng-
ing to many prominent Black Republican pol'ti-
clans. The Herald Processes to have gotten hold
Of this correspondence, and publishes it. thus say
ing Col. Fo hes the trouble of carrying his threat
nto execution. Ia Introducing the correspond
cnce, the Herald says:
But first let u briefly state the manner in which
Col. Forbes comes To b. mixed up in this matter.
The first that was known of him in this country
was when, some ten years ago, he arrived here,
after the breaking up Of the great European rrHo-
luton, Of 1913. lie is Sco,chman by birii we
believe and has been n rcvoluti mary soldier from
inclination. lie served for some years in the Bri-
tish army. AItcrward, find hlm brought pro-
minently into notice by hi, connection with Carl
baldi in the defense o! Rome. The" he to
this country and was for n time reporter or trnns-
lator on the Tribune. A few years ago he e>tab-
lished an AEglo-Amcrican paper in this city. and
was conducting it at the time oi his first ii.troduc-
tiNn 10 Ossawattomie Brown.
This modern Roundhead had come North for
the purpose of bringing back with him to Kansas
a man uf military gerius and experience who
would undertake to tram the Kansas abplitonIstS
in all the tactics pertaining 10 the guerilla branch
f the profession If arms. Forbes just the
man for the purpose. Guerilla fighting was LiS
forte, and he had the reputation besides OF Icing
somewhat of a genius in the art Of war. lis was
and excellent iencer, aud though that was Of lit
tie nc ount among the border rufhans-an accom-
3isheI linguist. Brown and Forbes were Brought
en- rapport by one of the reverend editors Of the
New York hdeIendem Negotiations were enter
ed on, and Forbes was secured to the cause of alb
ol.tonism. What the exact terms Of the contract
were, cannot say but gather from the cor
respondence in our hands, that certain monthly re-
mttunccs to be sent to Forbes family in
Europe hy those who had charge nf the funds in
this region Poor Forbes, however, appears To have
realized the hcuneruurcliablity Of these ilanthro-
psts and his letters show that he found out
that the Whbln OF cheating. lie D.
pealed to iloraca ireeey tn have justice done
him Horace replied that Forbes had no legal
claim upon him. lie put himself in corres pond
ence with Seward Sumner, Wilson, Hale, Chase,
Fletcher and other prominent aholitonists. and
acquainted them fully with Browns projects,
pointing out how they murt inevitably fall and
bring dsmay aud destruction upon the anti slave
ry cause. Bat Forbes found like tho Cassal,dra
Of old his predictions were laughed at and his
treaties set Mt nanght.
Extracts from the different letters follows:
nRowN's rLAS AND ITS PROBABLE CONSEQUENCES
WAsHINGToN, April "a 1851.
To F. b, SANuoRN Esq, Concord Mass:-Ihave
written to DIR. Howe IL letter. enclosing therein IL
copy OF one 10 Coin, Brown, dated FEBRUARY % As
it is too trying TO my eyes for mo to copy them
myself and AZ can entrust them to few to do that
ior me. have requested him iDr. II. to comnu-
ncate their contents to you.
An abolitioni-t, whom need not name, though
he Is known 10 you anu ~ very intlmateIy hcqudll-
ted with DR.. Howe rema Ged to me that il Brown
to try his plans and were u fail, he alone
would suffer- whereas if he were to succeed in
raising IN insurrection tho great object of eman-
cipation would be attained. And such WAS also
my impression at the first instant, therefore rs you
must perceive, | reiraned from interfering with
him. But more mature rcecctinn and the earnest
representation Of some nbotionst here, induced
me 10 regard that rs an Optimist rather than
sound practical view of the case. Slave insur-
rections are very pecuar-they differ considera-
bly, from other revolutions. in which men of high
ly cultivated minds and Of experience, as well as
information, abound. II B. gets t,om the slaves
no response, or only feeble one. to his invitation
to rise then the arms and means placed at his dis
posal by the humanitarian Tor speculatng) COM
mittees will be wasted, the lives OF many com prom-
sed with Brown will be needessly sacrificed, and
the cause will be thrown back, far back. IT, the
other hand, great rising take place which leaps
b,yond his unskilled direction, sweeping like a
prairie fire from Mason and Dxon's line to the
G"lf OF Mexico, must not such an unorganized