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| from their close proximity e ths ecsn. " !. .
l contest When the crisis - the enlargement /
arrived even the optside military and cisIsens
could hardly restrain themselves from rash.
ing forward and discharging their arms--
Loud calls of order arrested their irnpu hes
" men the prisoners came ont there were vo.
Is.lIerons cries Of .hane them constantly re-
oeafed. The companies and citizens were After.
wards admitted to the g0vernmeirf rrou uds
ana iinad an opportunity toyiew the corpees
p the deinded fanatics who had sf, foolishiy
Drleied their liyes. The faces Of all the VIC
ans it was subisct Of generai remark. ex.
aiblted peculiar characteristics Thc p,,l,iic
a authorities have made arrangements for their
sH A COMMISSION e
The following ''commfaaonr was found ON
The body of one Of the dead insurrectionIsts
HEADQUARTERS WAR DEPARTMENT
Near Haspers Ferry. Ma
Whereas, w. n. feemaa~lsos-b bee,s noy,aina-
ted captain in the arny established under
the Provisional CDn sfitaEioa; now therefore in
pursuance Of the authority vested in me by
commission the said William II. Leeman can
tain, f
Given at the Office of the Secretary Of War,
this day. 18th of October, 1882
sJSo BROWN, Commander in Chief.
H. KEYS, Secretary War.
COMMENTS OF THE PRESS.
The New York Express, writing before the
agency Of abolitionism in the affair was GER.
tain. says
In commenting upun this startling demon.
stration of practical 'sNegro- ism,' we are not
disposed, in the light only of our present in :
formation, to go beyond the simple facts of the
case as the telegraph gives them. Still less are
we disposed to indulge in any exclamation of
surprise or astonishment that such an out
break should have happened; because, if it
turns out that "Abolisionism" is really at the
potion of 1t, the whole affair (bloodshed, mur-
Aolt \ ,l,,1~
ed upon as the handiwork Of a certain class OF
men among us who follow Aboltionism as a
regular profession, and whose theories upon,
reduced TO practice, have their logical results
In just such 'lBREPREsSIBLE CoNFLICTs.o
The Philadelphia Bulletin in its commenta-
~, says:
1t can do no good to the cause Of freedom,
and may irritate the slayeholding States be-
yond anything yet known. If there were
any sensible. and practicable purpose in the
1t seems to have been either mere riot, hav-
Ing for its purpose robbery and plunder, or an
insanaaftempt at oyerturning the slave laws
OF Virginia and Maryland. The insurgents
consistof a few hundred ignorant negroes and
white men, led by persons who have never
before been heard of rs either politicians. SOL
diers, patriots, or philanthropists. In some
way or other they have poisoned the minds of
their followers and led them to believe that
they could either revoIutionize the Southern
States, or could enrich themselves by plunder-
ing the government establishments at Harper IS
Ferry. The utter folly of the adventure is
shown by the fact that within about thirty
hours after the first outbreak, ,4the insurgents
have been defeated in all their strongholds,
the leaders have been shot or captured, and ar
rangements are already in progress for the
punishment of the offenders.
The Alexandria (Va.) Sentinel says:
/ Theputrage which has just been enacted at
lHarpef's Ferry, the South will feel most deep
ly. Is it possible-her citizens will ask-is it
possible that the animosity OF the North against
us has reached such degree of ali-consuming
Ehate as to drive any of her citizens upon such
efforts, and make them blind not only to its
| vile wickedness, but to its utter folly 1t is
indeed most painful and startling illustra-
| ton of that fanaticism which Mr.. Seward has
| evoked and harnessed TO his chariot, and
| drives on in 'irrepressible conflict"
From an article in the Gazette, of the same
city, written before the insurrection was
| quelled, we take the following:
But after 1t is quelled and the guilty parties
are fairly before the civil tribunals, we expect
| to see stern justice meted out to all concerned
| In bringing about or acting In, this Outrage
| upon law, this rebellion and treason, this grsa
| crime against the laws the country and th'
rights OF our peaceable citizens.
THE ABoLrTIoNIsrs AT THE INsuRREcrIor
AT HARPER-s FERRY.-Ths New York paper
are puzzled to know what TO make of the in
surrection at Harper's Ferry. The Herald re
fers to an extract of one Of Gerrit Smiths let
ters, written few weeks ago, which is inter
esting in view of the fact that the 'sphilanthro
pist', sent letter containing sie, to Ossawai
tonne Brown. 1t says:
We recollect q very significant passage in on
of Gerrit Smiths letters, published mont
| or two ago, in which he speaks Of the folly G
attempting to strike the skackles of the slave
fby the force of moral suasion or legal agita
4 tion, and predicts that the next movemen
made in the direction Of negro emancipatio
81 would be an insurrection i'll the South. 1
this the first act in that programme and ar
those white abolitionists spoken of in our dis
patches emissaries of the peaceful Gerriti ]
not, is the insurrection part of that" irrepres
sible conflict" which is so dear TO the heart 0
! William Fl. Seward and Is it intended to ei
feet the next Presidential contest!