M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1859-11-17
More Disclosures from Harper's
Ferry-TwO Years Secret HIstO-
ry OF fAbOIliOnISm.

clusively in the Herald was sagges,
tive of the extensive ramitications ol
the plot, and conclusive as to the coin
plicity therein OF such abolitionists and
Black Republicans as Joshua r. Gid,
uirgs, OF Ohio; Gerriit Smith, of Pc.
ierbOro; F. r. Sanborn, OF Concord,
Mass, and DR.. Howe, Of Boston
But the disclosures that are made in
the documents which we print to-day
involve much higher game--reierring
as they do to Seward, SunIer, Hale,
Chase, Fletcher, Greeley, Lawrence
and many other leading Republicans
There is a curious history connect.
ed with this correspondence, and sug.
gestive of the truth OF the cid maxim
about the effect OF thieves falling out.
A certain Hugh FOrbeS-tamiliarly
known as Colonel Forbes-an old
comrade of Garibaldi's in 1S4S, and
since then a refugee in this country,
seems to have been hired, on the Dug.
aid Dalgetty principle to go to Kansas
couple OF years since, to cooperate
with Ossawatomie Brown and to i'm,
part to his raw levies little instruc.
tion in tho art of war. Forbes and
Brown pulled together well enough
for some months, until there came to
be misunderstanding in regard to
tho pay and provender. Forbes ap.
pealed from Brown to the general ab-
clifton commissariat in this region,
but found that he was doomed to be
cheated all round. Greeley fell back
on the strict letter OF the law. and
pleaded that he was not bound by
Forbes contract with Brown. San
born, who was the Secretary OF the
Massachusetts Emigration AID Socie-
ty, and Howe, a we'll known abolition.
ist of Boston, kept paltering with
Forbes until, in the words Of one Of his
own letters, his family's credit was
stopped at the French or Italian res
taurant where they used to get their
meals. Forbes became indignant
against Brown and the humanitarans,
as he styles them, and denounced them
all in pretty round terms. But still
the troubles ofh family did not wean
him altogether from the work to
which he had lent his hand. On the
contrary, he devised plan which he
submitted to his abolition friends
North, to perform etfectually the
kansas work" that Gerrt1 Smith
speaks Of in his letters.
Forbes plan was simply an organi.
zed system ofstanpeIing slaves along
tie border States, and thus gradually
driving the institution farther South.
Browns project was declared--so
long ago as May, 1S5S--to he identi.
cally that which has had such a mis-.
cradle failure at Harper's Ferry
Forbes was too experienced stager
not to see the inevitable result of such
a ridiculous project, and much of his
correspondence that has fallen into
our hands is taken up with denuncia.
tions of Browns crazy idea, and ap.
peals to the leading Republicans to
stop Brown or to denouuce him.
1t appears beyond all preadventure,
by this correspondence, that among
the persons to whom he denounced the
Harper's Ferry project, a year and a
half ago, was Senator WIN. Il. Sew.
ard. He had an interview with that
Senator in Washington city, in May,
1858; and, as appears by one of his
letters, he went fully into the whole
matter. Again, he had interviews
with Sumner and Hale, also in Wash.
ington; and, in fact, it appears that
all the leading Republicans and aboli.
tionists Of the country were fully cog
infant Of the plans of Brown, and, if
they did not actually identify them
selves with him, they did not denounce
him to the authorities. On the CON
trary, they kept him furnished with
money and arms, and carried on a cor
with him.
Forbes letters show another thing.
They show that it was not alone
feeling Of philanthropy, nor even a
political motive, that led these New
and New York abolitionists
to encourage old Brown Of Ossawato-
mie. Something more than all that
Was at the bottom OF the movement.
And what9 Speculation in the rise
of cotton had more to do with the
Harper's Ferry outbreak than all 9th.
er causes combined. The correspon-
dence places that beyond a doubt
Old Brown told Forbes that a member
of the house of Lawrence, Stone &
Company celebrated for the SS7. 900
free wool movement in Congress, "a few
wears ago)had promised him $S, 900 if
lie succeeded in his Harper's Ferry
dash. But Forbes, like a blunt soldier
who had gone into the thing as a mill
tary speculation solely, could not IN.
dprstand MAKING q co,n,nprnial snprn-