The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1859-11-30

The attempt of Republican newspapers and
politicians to be witty and make light Of the
Harper's Ferry invasion is neither mai ural nor
creditable, and reminds one irresistibly of scar
ed boys whistling through a grave yard to keep
their courar.> up. These Republican papers
know that to their teaching, and to the section
al and nfammatory appeals of their public
speakers, are attributable the mad and treason
able acts of Old John Brown and his deluded
associates. Knowing that the lawless blood
shed at Harper's Ferry rests ON their skirts,
and fearful of the consequences which may en-
sue to their party, the Republican leaders seek
still further to defend their followers by treat
ing the attempted insurrection at Harpers Fer
ry as something only to be joked over, as an
utterly farcical affair, altogether too un;mpor-
tant for grave comment Whilst reckless Re-
publican agitators seek to get rid Of the affair
in this way, we are gratfied to observe how
differently the matter is viewed by some of the
standard religious journals of the country, which
see in Browns bold, mad schemes only the
legitimate fruits Of the discord and strife which
have been so industriousiy fomented by med.
dlers at the North. The two extracts below
are IN polnt.--NeaoGrk AdV0cdts.
From the Philadelphia Presbyterian.
| HARPER's FERRY.--The New York Indepea-
dent (Beechers paper,) affects to regard the
sad occurrences at Harper's Ferry as good
| Joke, and as affording a capital theme for
Pw,cNs caricaturing genius 1t styles it "The
| Oh eat Virginia Scare and makes itself merry
over the calling out of troops to put down the
freak of mere madcap. This new turn will
not avail the Independent. It's readers should
remember the seriousness and earnestness with
which it recommended the free use of Sharpes
i rifles 1t is ungenerous now, to say the least
of it, to style Brown a madcap, when he was,
with the countenance and material aid OF Others,
attempting to carry out the favorite theory OF
stirring up a servik ,car with all its unspeaka-
BILE horrors.
The New York Observer, one of the Oldest
as it is one of the ablest and most reliable, re
I1igious paper in the Union, says:
"The revelations Of the past week from par.
ties implicated in the Harper's Ferry conspra
cy are we'll fitted to awaken the profoundest
sensation throughout the length and breadth OF
the land. These revelations leave no farther
room for doubt that the plot has been known
to leading men in different parts of the country;
that they have carefully concealed the scheme
from the knowledge Of the public, while the
accursed plot has been rpening for execution
that some men of means and standing who
would not have been suspected OF wrong doing,
have been supplying money and arms to enable
the conspirators to carry onthe war, and these
patriotic Christian gentlemen have suffered this
Infamous conspiracy to mature, and finally to
burst upon the heads Of the innocent, and put
in peril the peace Of the whole country, while
THEY, protesting to love their neighbors as
themselves, have kept silent, and have been
partskers In these deeds of blood,
"The newspapers in the interest Of the con.
spiratora. or in sympathy with their object,
make light of the affair, because only ascore Of
men were in the outbreak but there were as
many engaged in it as aosrs panted to begin the
insurYasio,,. The gathering Of great numbers
at any one point would have reused suspicion,
and secured tha defeat Of the movement. II
was believed, aud hss been asserted by aboli.