The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-12-08
The Real Insiigators of Browns
Invasion.

We have heretofore given our read
ers portion of the facts showing that
pro-slavery Locofocoism is responsible
for the consummationof Browns insane
invasion of Virginia, and that his pro-
ject was not only permitted to be car
ried out by the Federal administration
to which it was fully communicated in
August last, but that it was beyond
question instigated by pro-slavery Lo-
cofoco agencies for the base purpose
ofcreating an occasion for charging the
whole upon Republicanism. We pro-
coed to give other of these facts:
Immediately after the defeat of
Brown the pro-slavery locofoco organs
were filled with the pretended revela-
tons of "Col. Forbes" whose name
has, until after the recent State cleo
tons, been paraded in their columns
as the name of witness by whom
Messrs. Seward, Chase, Hale, Giddings,
and indeed the whole Republican party,
were to be convicted of completely
with Browns "Treason and murder"
The name of this creature was new
to the public, and but little could be
definitely learned of him until thepub-
lication of the confession Of the cap
tured invader, Cooke, the brother-in-
law of Willard, the Locofoco Governor
Of Indiana. As this confession was
drawn up under the supervision of
Gov. Willard and the leading Indiana
locofocos who accompanied him to
Charleston, and was designed to secure
the pardon of Cooke, by propitiating the
Slave Power through its attempts to
give color to the charges against Re-
publicans, Forbes is but cautiously ex-
posed.
1t however discloses the facts that
he was in Kansas during the Border
Ruffiian outrages there, and under the
pretense of being a Jealous abolition
list, secured the confidence of Brown
and other leading Free State men; and
that when Brown got up his Harper's
Ferry enterprise, Forbes was engaged
as the second in command, and partic-
ularly for the purpose of drilling the
adventures and instructing them in
military tactics, and continued to act
with Brown until they had a quarrel
and separated.
The cause of this quarrel is not Civ
en- in the " confession" but it was pro-
badly nothing other than Browns dis
covery that Forbes was the scoundrel
and spy and pimp of the Slave Power,
which he has since proved himself to
be. The confession also discloses the
fact that Brown and his company re-
ceived information, after getting their
project nearly ready for execution, that
Forbes had informed the Government
oft; and therefore postponed its exc
cution.
If the members of Buchanan's Cabi-
net and Buchanan himself, can be
made to tell the "truth and the whole
truth :" as witnesses on the trial of Ste
vens to be had i'm the Federal Court of
Virginia on charge Of treason against
the United States, or as witnesses be-
fore an Investigating Committee of
Congress, it will doubtless turn ont
that Forbes gave them, in general
form, the information in question
months before the date Of the Cincin-
natl letter, giving them the details of
the project which we have heretofore
published; and that Forbes was the
writer of that letter.
1t further appears from other sour
ces, and especially from Forbes own
statements made in aid of the attempt
to implicate Republicans, that he had
knowledge of all of Browns plans, and
was fully to all intents and purposes an
accomplice before the fact to all the
doings which the authorities of Vir-
ginia and the United States hold to in
volve the crimes of treason, murder and
melting slaves to revolt, under the laws
of Virginia, and treason against the
United States.
Why then is he not prosecuted :?
He has been all along at large in the
city of New York, making his revela-
tions to the pro-slavery editors of the
Journal of Commerce, Herald, E'r-
press, Times, and other purchased
chattels of the Slave Power. There is,
in his own disclosures, sufficient evil
dence of his cooperation with Brown,
to require Gov. Wise to issue a requi-
sition for him as the law in respect
to acquisitions is construed in Virginia.
Why is it not done?
| Vhv do not Buchanan and his Cab