The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1859-12-01
From the N. Y Independent, Nov. II.
An Interview with Mrs. Brown. ..-Vis-
it of Lady to Chariestowh Jail.

From the N. Y Independent, Nov. II.
An Interview with Mrs. Brown.---vis-
it of Lady to Charlestown Jail.
l write this morning, on board a steam
boat, a hasty account of personal in
terview last evening with Mrs. Mary
Brown, wife of Capt. John Brown, now
under sentence of death in Virginia, for
having bravely failed in brave deed.
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l conversed with her during the en-
tire evening. But only ten minutes ac-
quaintance is enough to show that she
is woman worthy to be the wife of such
man. She is tall, large and muscular,
giving the impression, at first sight, of a
frame capable of great strength and long
endurance. Her face is grave and
thoughtful. wearing, even in this hour
of her trial, an expression of soberness,
rather than of sadness, as if, like her
husband, she had long since learned how
to suffer and be calm. Her manner is
singularly quiet and retiring, although
her natural simplicity and modesty can
not hide the evident force of character,
and strength of will and judgment, which
have fitted her SO long to be counselor
in her husbands enterprises and sup
porter in his trials.
She is native of Whitehall, near Lake
Champlain, and has been the mother of
thirteen children but, Notwithstanding
the cares of her numerous family, and
her many privations and struggles inde-
pendent of household burdens, she still
appears as fresh and hale as if she were
only now in the prime and vigor of life.
NEWSPAPER CORRECTION.
The conversation, of course. was of
the scenes of Harper's Ferry-both of
those which have already been enacted
and those which are shortly to follow.
She alluded, with subdued though evil
dent emotion. to the wounds of her hus-
band, and to the loss of her two sons,
Watson and Oliver, who fell in the strug-
gle. But she made no such remark as
that recently attributed to her in New
England newspaper, four of her sons
had already been slain, and she would be
willing that all the rest Of her family
should be made a sacrifice, if necessary,
to the cause of Freedom" These words,
she said to me. could never possibly have
fallen from her lips for she had already
telt too many griefs to court any fresh
sacrifices; and she could not think, with
pain. of any new death-stroke to her fam
ily. She would not shrink from any nee
essary trial or struggle when the hour
came for it, but she could not look for
ward with composure to any further
lessening Of her family, already too sad
ly broken. She regretted that such a
remark should have been put in her
mouth, for" as she observed, "they
we're unmotherly words"
She said that she had been so long ac-
customed to sorrows, that she had been
trained to bear them. While living in
Ohio, four of her children died with the
dysentery. within eleven DAYS, three Of
whom were carried to the grave together
on the same day She mentioned in this
connection that her husband had always s
been watchful nurse, and the chief
care taker of the children and of her
self, during periods of sickness.
CAPT. BROWNS RELIGIOUS CHARACTER.
Iadverted, in alluding to Capt. Brown Is
religious opinions, to the common repo r,
that be was an Old School PRESBYTERIAN.
She replied that be had been church