Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-10-28
when the Plot was Connected.

The Philadelphia Press has published the
following from the pen OF a leading anti-s,a-
very man of that city
You ask me what | know in regard to this
outbreak at I|Tarper's Ferry. | answer
know knothing and yet | am not altogether
ignorant concerning it. e.
. More than a year ago. when the Kansas
troubles had come to an end, Il gentlcman-for
such he was by birth and breeding-frcsi from
the scenes of strife. and ready for another con
test. called to see me at my office. He WAS Il
soldier by profession had fought for freedom
in Hungary and on the pains of Kansas. and
was now ready, if an opportunity would offer,
to draw his sword in the same behalf in the
mountains of Virginia. or in the swamps Of
South Carolina. On this last point he wal ted
to know my opinion, which, of course, | was
prompt to give.
. 0nr enterprise" 7 said, " is a moral one
It rejects the sword. It seeks to accomplish
its end by ideas 1t appeals to the undcrstan-
ding, the heart, the conscience, the purse. Its
object is, 10y changing public opinion, to effect
a moral revolution that to be followed by a
proper political reconstruction, the same to be
accomplished by the least possible exercise of
force" This, he said, was all well enough in
theory, but it would not work in practice. 1t
was too slow. In the initiatory stages of the
movement it might do well enough, but the
time had come when something more decisive
was called for. He was not an Abolitionist in
the common sense Of the word, bat he was u
friend to freedom the world over, and was
ready, at any time, to unsheathe his sword
against oppression. Did I know John Brown,
of 0sSawattamie No, I did not know him,
though [ had often heard of him. Well, said
he, l don't like him ; he and I don't agree
lie has treated me badly but he is a brave
man and an efficient soldier. He has come
home burning under a sense of the wrongs he
and his countrymen suffered in Kansas at the
hands of the Shareholders, and is determined to
make reprisal. He wants to organize a band
to go South. establish himself in the noun
tains, and inaugurate a species of guerilla war;
fare for the abolition of slavery. Are there
any amongst your friends that would cooper
ate in such an undertaking? To the best of
my knowledge and belief there was not one
Well, he would find them somewhere for he
was bent on fighting the Shareholders with their
own weapons-the use of which they had so
HCI Taught Hill Ill TIE DdItl6S VI hdDSdS.
"Such, in substance, was the conversation
between Captain - and myself, of whom
or from whom ] have never heard since that
time. But soon after this, I heard from anoth-I
er source, that John Brown was still medita-
ting a descent on the shareholders, and was only
waiting coadjutors. And about six weeks ago,
a highly respectable gentleman, just returned
from foreign travel stopped in this city, and, in
the course of a conversation l had with him,
dropped expressions implying his knowledge of
Browns intentions, and, what surprised me
most. of his approval of them. Ascertaining
my sentiments on the subject, he did not make
me a confidant, and not anticipating any seri-
Gus result, nor any immediate result of any
kind, I made no particular inquiries.
This the extent of my knowledge in regard
to this startling affair. When I heard the first
rumor yesterday, / credited it, and believed
that John Brown had a hand in it: subsequent
have proved that I was right.
This is the beginning of the end, the drag
1n's teeth which nave been so profusely sown
rave sprung up and are bearing their natural
Stringfellow and Buford initiated the
; who will be the men to consum-
nate ii ,"