The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-10-19
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peal to them for the truth of what 1 saw I am 63
years DID,"
Reporter. did you first conceive this
mover"
Brown-"While in Kansas. After my property
was destroyed, one of my sons killed and my happ-
ness destroyed by the slave party of Kansas, de-
termined TO be revenged. | also was moved in this
matter by hope to benefit the negroes"
Reporter-"Where did you get all your rifles and
the pixies which are here? Who furnished you with
them ?"
BroTn-''My own money. l did not receive aid
from any man. Cook is not son OF mine. If l
had succeeded in running off slaves this time,
could have raised twenty times many l
nave now, for a similar expedition. But | have
ialled. did not intend to stay here so long, but
they 1.-THE citizens) deceived me by proposing COM
promises which they had no intention of carrying
out. L am not in any mans employ"
Brown complained that the crowd who were
clamorous for his blood were treating him un-
kindly and unfairly after the kindness and euiency
he had shown the citizens and the town. He also
said that he fully convinced that he was dying
In righteous cause. 1t is not, however, probable
that he Will die until he has been tried by jury,
as the only wound he sustained is cut across the
head with sabre. The sum of $3.50 was found on
his person, which was placed with the Pavmaster
for safe keeping.
Ed. Copie states that he is from Iowa. He made
the acquaintance of Brown last winter in Iowa.
where Brown told him of this scheme and asked him
to join the expedition Copie states as follows:-
owe were to be well paid for our time and trouble.
Wenever made a direct bargain as to how much
we were to receive. Old man Brown was not to
but 7 don't knOyv vho ,rou Tho ria Ia, ,-aro
furnished by the Massachusetts, Aid Society. They
were first sent to Kansas, but the excitement hav-
ing died away, they were of no use, and Brown
got the rifles for this expedition. They were sent
from Kansas to Chambersburg, Franklin county;
they were then hauled from there to Browns house
by man who lives in Greencastle. | don't know
who made the pixies or picks. l have said all the
prayers have to say, and am ready to die"
This man was in excellent spirits, perfectly un-
concerned in regard to his fate, and said that he
"was ready to swing, if the laws of the country or
dered it,
The negro's name is Gains. He says he lived in
Harrisburg, Pa, and that Brown had induced him
to come over to Maryland and work for him; that
he did so, and was induced to go into the insur-
rection.
Gains is bad fellow and no truth in him. He
Ioiu several palpaOe lies whlle telling his story.
The prisoners were in the hands of the Marines
After they had been taken, the Independent Greys,
Capt. b. L.. Simpson, heard that Capt. Cook, with
other insurgents, over in Maryland. They
proceeded to the spot designated, and found the
arms and other articles which had been removed
from the armory, together with the wagons and
horses. They returned with them to the Ferry
A large number of persons are out on horseback,
hunting for Cook and his companions.
The little wagon which Brown brought with him
was found in the armory yard. 1t contained pixies,
picks, shovels, kindling bark saturated with fluid,
and number of whistles of peculiar construction,
which when sounded give forth a strange trilling