Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1859-10-31


Weie | addressing certain persons; should sny
tn lhcm--Sre that Brown be not permitted to put
into execution his own plan; lot the well natnr-
ed plan' or mine, or some other better ono DO
substituted; see that proper committee ot man
agement be put at tho hend md that leading mon
be sought different from Brown in their humanity.
integrity truthiulncss aud capacity. But address
sing persons who havo implicit faith in Brown,
persons who have treated brutally my innocent
children. destroying their health and may be also
their lives. rs II recompense to mo Tor repos,ng
confidence in Now England good faith-nS am
addressing such men, | say insist that all tho
arms and means conf led to John Brown be Instant
" withdrawn from his hands. aud that they be
deposited in such custody as shall insure their
MT being applied to s.'c,ulating or merely ambi'
tious purpose
II you ask bv whnt right so Insist, reply,l do
this by the right of Z 'mmon sense, and because
great humanitarian cause, on which depends tho
lives and liberties of millions. must not be intrns-
ted to thu mismanas"ment of incompetent and in
human persons. II. r.
INTERVIEW win SEWARD,
WAsniNaroN, May L. 1888
To DR. 5. g. HOWE. NJ. d.. Boston, Mnss;
On Saturday lst Mny) had nn inc,scw with
Srnaor VIM. II. Seward. Of New iuk having
Lcen Introduced to him through IL letter from
leading aholiIinnisi. Dr. Bailey; OF the Era, !
went fully into the whole matter. in all us
bearings. He expressed regret that he had been
told aud said that he in his pn>ition ought not to
have been informed of the circumstances. In pnrt
agree with him ard in part differ regret
that the misconduct Of the New Engnndrrs should
ln,e forced me To address myself ta him; but being
now Heightened on tho subject. he cannot well
let this business continue in ts pre,cnt crookcd
condition, instead oi causing Ito be put straight,
both ~ regards my childrcn's situation M well
the cotton spccuatons of the humanitnrinns.
roauH,' PLAN.
Mine was as fellows With carefully selected
rnnrcd and white persons to organize along the
Northern slave frontier Virginia and Maryland
cspecnll, series "r stnmpedeI Of slaves, each
one of which operations would carry oil IN one
night and from the Same place some twenty to
fifty Slaves: this t, be effected once or twice II
month, aud eventually once or twice week along
non contiguous pnrs of the limo: if possible with
out conflict only rcsorting 10 force if attacked.
Slave women. accustomed 10 field labor, would ho
uea ~ rs uscinl ns men. Every thing being in
rea iIness to pass on the ingltncs; they could be
sent with such speed tn Canada that pursuit would
lie hopeless. In Canada preparations wcro to ho
lnn le for their instruction aud employment. Any
disaster which might belnl stampede would ut
tn utmost compromise those only who light bc
eu aged in that single one; therefore are not
bound in good faith to the ahoitionis (a4 we
d not ieupardise that intcrcsD to consult more
Il IN those engaged III this very project. Again 1t
tie chance of loss hy occasional accidents should
b. weighed the advantage Of series of Successful
runs" Slave property would thu. become un
tcnaLle on the frontier; that frontier would be
pushed more and moro southwark and II might
reasonably he expected that the excitement and
irritation would impeI the pro-envcryira to com
nit some stupid bumpers. The Missouri frontier
being 80 far from the lahabc par. of Cannda and
the political rartics--anti and pro.slnerry he
ing in that Stale lNlss'uri) 50 nearly balanced,
suggested n peculiar action in that quarter,
which would depend in n great measure on af.
ilrs in Kansas
BRowS's Plan.
Brown had II dif.arcn, scheme. lie proposed,
witd some twenty hye Il City lcrlorel anl white
m god we'll armed and bringing qulntity of
spare arms; Ia beat np slave quarter IA Virgin
ia. To this objected that. no preparat5ry no.
tcr having been gwen to tho slaves Ia" notice
could, with prudence be given them the invita-
ton to rise might unless they were alre dy in
state ofngIttti"n, meet with ho response, IL fee
blc one. 10 this he replied that he wns .nrc ofa
response. lie calculated that he could e-t on the
first night fran 200 to 500. Half, or tLcrcnbouts,
Of thi, first lpt he Ir poscd to keep wi'h him.
mounting 100 or ~ OF them. make dn Ii ut the
lIarper's Ferry manutactory. destroying what he
could not carry off. The other men not Of this
party were to be subdIyilcd into three, four.
five distinct parties. each under two three of
the original band, and would beat up other slave
Quarters, whence more men would be sent to join
him.
A NORTHERN CONVENT y.
lie argued that werc he pre- scd ly the Unite
States troops. which after few days mi .ht con
centrntc. he could easily maintain himself in the
Aleg ghanies, and that his New England parisans
would in the meantime call Northern Conven-
tion to restore tranquility and overthrow the pre-
slavery administration. This. conendch, could
at most be II mere local explosion. \ slave insur-
recinn, being from the very nature Of things def
cicnt in men OF education aud experience" would.
under such n system b, proposed, h" either II
flash in the pan, sor would leap beyond his
trol--whcn it would become ii scene Of mere an.
nrchy and wouli assuredly be suppressed.
FOREIGN iHTgRvENrIoN.
O.. the other hand b. considered foreign inter.
vention Us not impossible. As tp the dream ola
Northern Convention, consider it asn total fall,-
cy. Brown's New England friends would not
have the courage to show themselves, 50 long n
the issue was doubtful. See my letter to J. b.
dated 23d February.
THE WELL MATuRED rLAN.
After days Of discussion, Brown (whom you re-
ierate underlined in your letter of the 10TH en-
joy your entire conf lenor) acquiesel or feigned
TO acquiescs in mixed project styled the well
matured plan" consented to make that
cessun to mutual evaporation, an in con
of the pr spectivc committee of manage
ment which was mt the proper time to be establish
l preferred however, my original plan of STAN.
pe,!es, unalloyed by anything else. Your assor-
ton that wantto take the Management is wholly
unfpunded; my insisting upon n committee of
mana cement is col elusive ON that head. John
Brown. had he been truthful. might have been
useful in sono capacity. almost every one might.
if jealous LIE useful in some capacity, almost
ry one might be mischievous in another place.
This mixed plan in which | am compromised
more than you lying as You do out of sight hav-
ing been definitely settled upon. deny the right
of B., or you. or any one, from caprice spccula
fnn In aeti IL aside &, In Rrl,xn r,r,iact