Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1859-11-03

gard to what developed. might have been equally
implicated. Indeed il Is incredible that mere
Vers1on such as the one held by with John Brown
should excite such paroxysns OF rage aud call forth 20
much vulgar but mpotent vituperaton unless there be
much undsclosed Certain il that three of the
negroes and they from Obern and At least six of the
white men, nine in ALL out Of the nineteen Including John
rown the leader of the insurrecon were or had been
from Ohio where they had received sympathy and coun-
sci. II not material aid in their conspiracy
John Brown failed to excite general and most wick.
ed bloody and desoating servle and civil war osy D.
1d'ss the sidres and c0H-sdreokpg ,cIs ,a,s Of m,
''c'h,ty me former tNefv thousand ia number, iconi
not rtss He had prepared arms and ammunition for
hteen hundred men, and captured Mt the first blow,
enough to than fifty thousand aud vet he ba
less than thirty men--more Nevertheless than have be-
gun nan the revolutions and cons iracies which history
records But he had tampered with slaves nor so
lcited the non-slay eboldng whites around him c,,.
be really believed that the the blo. ss struck
they would gather to his standard pcctinr further
more, the promised reinorcements Instantly from the
North and West. This the basis upon which The
whole conspiracy planned aud had his belief been
wen founded he would unquestionaby have succeeded
IN stirring up most formidable insurrection possbly
involving the peace of the whole country and reaurn
certainly great armies and vast to suppress IL
IL ~ vain to underrate either the or his conspr.
cy Capt John Brown is a. brave and resolute man as
ever headed insurrectiou and ia a good cauae and
with sufficient force would have been good partilan
commander lie has coolness daring. pcrSisency stole
faith aud patience, and frnness OF will and burmese
uncoDquerable. He is tall wiry, muscular but with little
hesh-"ith cold gray eye gray beard and mustache
l
face and Frame and with powers OF endurance equal TO
any thing needed to be done suffered in anv
Though engaged in wicked mad aud fanatical cnt. r
prise he is the farthes possible remove from tb or
ry rutian, fanatic madman but his powers are rather
eNecntory than inventive, and he had the breadth
or depth Of mind originate and conrive himself the
plan oil in>urreeuon which lac undertook to carry out
Here was his folly and madness He believed and
acted upon tue faith which for twenty years has been
persstenty taught in every form throughout the Fr
States. and which II but another mode of statement of
the doctrine OF the rrcpressGle conict-that slavery
and the three hundred aud thousand -ayehoIj
ers o the South only tolerated aud that the millions
o slaves and non-lavehoding white men are ready and
eager to rise against the "oligarchy" needing only
leader and delverer. The conspiracy was the natural
anu necessary consequence of tile doctrines proclaimed
every da. year ia aud year out by the apostles of Abo
Huon. but Brown sincere, earnest practical. IA.
proposed no mild works ia hs faith reckless of murder
treason, and every other crime This was his madness
aud folly lie Perishes justly and mseraby-an insui-
gent aud elon; but guiler than he aud with his bio,
upon their head the false and coNardly prophet
and teachers Of Abolition.
q. l.. EALLANDIGHAN