The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-11-17
The Real Instigators of John Browns
Conquest of Harper's Ferry.

sion of Virginia and conquest of Har-
per's Ferry occurred just before the
late sharply contested elections in
New Jersey, New York and other
states, is of itself sufficient refutation
of the charges by the lying villains of
pro-slavery Locofocoism, that Seward,
Chase, Hale, Wilson, Giddings, Gree
ly, and other leading Republicans in
stigated Brown and his sixteen white
men and five negroes to engage in the
inevitably disastrous enterprise, and
that the Republican party are therefore
responsible for it. 1
None but fool, of Unreasonable i'd
iocy, would believe that men so saga
cious as the eminent politicians and
statesmen sought to be implicated,
embracing several prominent candi-
dates for the Presidency would insti-
gate, or permit if they could prevent,
an enterprise like Browns on the eve
of elections in which, and in all subse-
quent elections, its certain failure could
not fail to be as disastrous to them and
their party politically, as to him and
his little band personally.
Such are not the men for such polit-
ical suicide; and these lies of traitorous
Locofocoism against them, are, to ev-
cry man ranking in the scale of intelli-
gence two degrees above a jackass,
about as credible as a charge that in
order to secure to themselves length of
days they had gone and hanged them
selves.
The fact that there are so many, par
ticularly amongst the abject serfs of
pro-slavery locofocoism, who have not
attained to those two degrees of intel
lectual elevation, has led Messrs Chase,
Hale, Giddings, and the other Repub-
licans whom the lying miscreants have
designated by name, Except Messrs
Gov. Seward and Senator Sumner, who
are absent in Europe, and DR.. Bailey,
late editor of the Washington National
lEea, who is Dead to meet the lies and
confront the liars with emphatic deni-
ais of all participation in, or knowledge
of, John Browns project for his Har-
per's Ferry or any similar enterprise.
Messrs Seward and Sumner will, in due
time, respond to the calumnies in the
same way, if they shall deem them
worthy of denial, and DR.. Bailey would,
were he alive to do so.
The pretences for these calumnies
are, that amongst the papers taken
from the captured and killed invaders,
and found in the house occupied by the
Browns as the head quarters of the ex-
petition, few miles of, over in Mary
land, were letters and documents in
proof of the charges. Those papers,
of course, fell into, and have remained
in the hands of the "chivalry;" and the
"chivalry," as ever body at all informed
of the real character of that species OF
the genus homo knows is especially addic
to lying, and all manner of such Ike
moralities, whenever the. interests OF
their "Bible institution can be thereby
promoted, or its fair fame protected.
Of course, having the papers all to
themselves, the "Chivalry" have. no
difficulty in manufacturing any amount
of lying out of them. They have only
to assert that the documents show this
and that, and forge such alterations in
them, or such new papers, as their de-
pravity may suggest, and give utter
ance to their falshoods and forgeries
through the home organs of the Slave
Power, and its infinitely meaner and
more despicable organs in the free
States, and the whole land rings with
the howlings of Slavery's hounds
against the eminent citizens sought to
be victimized by the devilish fabrica-
tons.
As fast as they venture to publish
the documents, their true character and
the falshood Of the charges pretended
to be based upon them, are promptly
exposed. Thus, the pretence that the
papers proved that Horace Greeley was
an accomplish in Browns invasion
turns out to have been based upon al
entry in Browns pocket diary, of the
fact that months ago he wrote a letter
to Mr.. Greedy enclosing three dollars
in money; while the letter itself shows
that it was merely an order for the