Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1859-10-28
MORE ABOUT THE RESURRECTION.

MORE ABOUT THE lNSURRECTIoN. /
There has been desperate attempt by dis
tnguished democrats who have visited Brown,
and by Democratic presses, to make little
political capital out of Browns fatal foray.
But Brown, wounded and in durcss though he
was, proved to be both too honest and too
sharp for them. lie avows that he was insti-
gated to this sort Of revenge upon pro-slavery
men, by the destruction Of his property and
the murder of his son by Border-ruffians in
Kansas, and declares that the instruction is
his own work. Pro-slavery Democracy, then,
actually set Brown to this sort of work, as he
says and reasonable men will believe it.
The story is true to nature, and especially to
the fearless and somewhat ferocious nature Of
"Old Brown" lie who in revenge shot ruff
fans in Kansas and then ran away with slaves
until both articles were scarce. longed for a
wider, more fruitful and more convenient
field in which to exhibit his hatred Of slavery.
SO he selected Virginia We think he was
insane but this insanity itself was natural.
How many men, who are as brave as Brown,
would not be made insane by the destruction
of their property and the murder Of unarmod
sons by pro-slavery mobi There was no
reason in the conduct of the Border-ruflians
to him. but very much in his revenge for it,
He is indeed mad this madness is true to his
nature. 1t is said, however, that Brown con-
fcssed to a correspondence with many men in
the North. This may be true. Multitudes
sympathzed with him in his Kansas troubles.
Many doubtless believed him to be an honest,
brave and much abused man, and such would
give him their sympathy and confidence
Very few, however, we think. would give the
lenst countenance, Willingly, to this insurrec-
ton. If apprized Of it, most would at once
discountenance it, and others pass it by as the
freak of a moment Why the administration
itself had knowledge of the scheme, as long
ago as August last the Secretary of War,
even, WAS distinctly apprized of the design,
Of the fact that Brown was its originator,
of the line of march of the invaders, and of
the very point to be attacked. Yet neither
did the President nor his Secretary pay the
slightest attention to it On the whole, it
looks as though slavocratic ruiiianism pro-
voked this sad affair, and that the chosen de-
tenders Of Sayocratic- Democracy, just now
in power at Washington, are entirely and
most palpably responsible for not preventing
/ it. Slave-democracy will make nothing out
of Brown, unless they can muster up mag
naminity enough to acquit him on the grounC
of insanity, and send him to an asylum, wher,
mercy may do its best offices. We add fur
Their particulars of the affair.
From the Boston Atlas and Daily Bee, Oct. q.
OLD BROWN.
Old Brown-John Brown-the chief ant
originator of the instruction, was man 0
sixty-fve years of age. He was born, be
lieve, in Connecticut resided for a consider
BILE period of his life in Springfield, Massa
chusetts but for some time-perhaps for sew
eral years had lived in the State of New York
somewhere in the vicinity of Utica. A
Springfield | believe he was engaged in tn
wool trade. Wherever he lived, he soon &C
quired the reputation of a man of the sternes
integrity of character In Kansas he was tn
] kltui living NtSt VI III Jul lNiAAlNAhh'
, The more corrupt the man. the more he dc
nounced Old Brown. 1t was true compi
ment to be praised or to be recognized b
: him as a friend for, even in his social dea
ings he would have no connection with me
of unpirncipled or unworthy character. |
his camp he permitted no profanity; no ma
of loose morals was suffered to stay there
unless indeed as prisoners of war. 9" woul
rather have the smallpox, yellow fever an
} cholera all together in my camp, than ma
without principle" This he said to tn
present writer, when speaking of some ru
family recruits whom well known leader ha
recently introduced. It's u mistake, sir,
he continued " that our people make, whe
: they think that bullies are the best fighter
, or that they are the best men to oppose the,
Southerners. Give me men of good prime
, ples-God fearing men-men who respe,
themselves, and with dozen of them, | wi
I oppose any hundred such men as these Bl
; ford ruflians' His whole character is POI
trayed in these words. He was puritan
? the Cromwellian sense Of the word. He truste
in God and kept his powder dry. Prayer
were offered up, in his camp, every mornin
and evening no food was eaten, unless graC
was first asked on it.
4 For thirty years he secretly cherished I'll
: idea of being the leader Of a servile insure,
a ton: the American Moses, predestined
Q Omnipotence, to lead the servile nation
' our Southern States TO freedom if uecessai
y. through the Red Sea of civil war; or a fle
Ger war of races. II was no mad idea
7 concocted at a fair in Ohio !" but might
purpose, born Of religious convictions, wbic
c he nourished in his heart for half life time