The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1859-11-09
Ossavyatamie Brown.

All the papers are spreading" on the fIar
pers Ferry case. We could write ouirc O,
paper about it but it is unnecessary, and, to us,
not agreeable. Col. Forbes, one of Browns
assistants in Kansas, writes letter cuysing tho
"humanitarians" Of New England for melting
nun and Brown to course which they were
not manly enough to back up. Mr. Sumner and
MR. Greedy arc mentioned unfavorably by
Forbes, but no matter about all that We be
Neve that antislsvery men at the North whcth
er rabid enough to be of the school of Garri.
son, OF Smith, or Of Greedy. have done great
wrong to the Union and to their fanatcal read.
ers and listeners by their bad lang age relative
70 tic Southern people, but we are not willing
70 think that any considerable portion OF North
ern men really desire to see servile insurrec
ton, much less would they assist to plan one
The Boston journal (RepuJlican) says the
Theologic trash of that latitude has done great
mischief to weak minis everywhere. and the
Journal is right Many newspapers and orators
ot the West have been doing tic same thing.
out seeing now the wretchedncss in which lhier
friends Or followers are involved, and demon
strating the impossblisy of rous;ng slaves to
assert the rights which they, as men would be
entitled to- they (the mischcfmakcrs) will
learn to do better, and hereafter their influence
viii be exerted on the side of white fraternity
and negro sabordiation. Let us hope 50, at
least, and quit this eternal recrimination
"ossawatamie" is condemned to be hung Oh
the "a OF December, but we sincerely hope to
hear TINT Gov. Wise will commute his punish.
'nent to Imprisonment for life. Indeed. il &c
we're Governor of the Old Commonwealth, we
would exact pledge Of good behavior from
Brown and turn him loosc He and his crazy
band OF participants cannot be dangerous to the
peace Of Virginia: if they are, God help the
State! He was hurried through a trial while
AL covered with wounds, and presumptively in.
capable OF suggesting any line Of defence for
himself or co-traitors, and his death would be
like the sowing of the Dragons teeth of DID,
A pardon and release Of the miserable old man
would 60 farther to exhibit the fearlessness and
nagnanimty of Virginia and the South, than
all tho Congressional speeches the whole South.
ern delegation can make next winter. Brown.
crime has done more to wake the people of the
United States to sense of the danger of sec.
tlonal, tlatricdal and reasonable preaching,
than anything that has ever happened. those
who have been imprudent or vindicivc enough
70 speak iavorab!y of policy which aventuates
IN such terrible results as this Of Harper's Fer.
~, will see the error into which their mis- placed
sympathies ha' led them, and public sentiment.
will be the sounder and more nationally con.
'crvative from the event We repeat: Let
Brown be turned loose, living monument of
the clemency Of the South, and the fanaticism
OF portion of the North. II the American
Government, or the State of Virginia, is in &C.
tual danger from such crazy incendiaries as
this pitable old spectre of insanity, it is time
they were both wound up.