The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1859-12-08
Correspondence Of the n. Y. Evening Post.
Who Pointed the Way to Jshn Brswn I

tuo euosclty 01 J0nu browns oohoml
for running OF negroes 70 the free States
they insist that hs has levied var upor
the 01d Dominion, and that the upsho
Of his scheme, If sarrisd into effect
would be anarchy and civil war. W.
10 not bolieve that John Brown had any
such objects 10 view. Al % arden,
sympashissr with the slaves, h. desired
their emancipation, but the methsd in
which he proposed 10 bring it about ~,
BY > general stampede along the frontier
and not BY bloody insurrection.
But let US suppose the worst motives
which the Virginians themselves sscribs
to the enthusiast; lot Us suppose that be
really contemplated an armed rising Of
the servils classes, that he intended hos
tilities against the sovereignty Of the
State, and to involve the inhabitants in
al she horrors Of domestic war; vas he
in that view any tho worse than the
present Governor Of Virginia, Mr.. Wise,
who, in 1856, proposed to accomplish in
respect to the Federal Government what
John Brows il alleged to have underta-
ken against the State Government? Our
readers will recall the vehement hs-
ranguss which Mr.. Wise then made
against the election Of Fremont, the
threats Of disunion which hs uttered in
case Of Frsmonts success, and the pre-.
else plans Of lsvyiug war which be de-
scribsd. Nor were these plans confined
t. the crazy noddls Of Wise himself;
they we're part Of ; general scheme no
less than twsnty thousand men were
said to be ready to engage in them, and
oil the psEjiculars Of the rendezvous and
Of the march upon Washington we're
agreed upon. Harper's Ferry, il we're
member rightly, the very place selected
BY John Brown was to bs the place Of
meeting, and the seizure OF the armory
there the signal for the eusst.
We exposed this scheme at tho time !
but we have now additional evidence Of
il in the confessions Of some Of the con.
spirators. Mr.. Cory, Of Ohio, to whom
W refer elsewhere, has published mar
rativs Of his Interviews with various
Democrats 10 1850, and among tho rest
with distinguished Richmond editor,
now the ardent supporter Of Gov. Wise,
who spoke familiarly Of that pelisieian :
aaDguinary and ssdisious plans. Let %
rspest here the dstsiled statsnent Of Mr..
Cory!
There VAS another matter discussed
on Mr.. Banks motion. He told 20 the
South would have dissolved The Union III
Fremont had been elected President Of
the United States that Coz. Wiss and
the Nsryinia leaders soere ready q take
tie feld-march On Wash;.ston, saks shs
treasury, archives, bsildings, srosnds, DC,
declare the Confederation De facto ovsr-
thrown, and The District to haze reverted
T. Vi,yinia, the purpose jor ,ck,cA sks had
conveyed i haUins failed. Hs said the
thing would have been easy. Thers
we're 1000 men ready, 10000 cavalry,
sets Of accoutrsmsnts, &C., &c. That
the public mind Was sufficiently excited
to overcome all domestic resistance, and
that they could whip the North 10 the
fight. He seemed 10 b perfectly cool
and abstract in these declarations, and
without doubt implicitly believed what
he said"
What % snormity VA thisl Because
the people Of the nation, acting il :
constitutional manner, might prefer )
candiate for tho Presidency who did not
happen 70 suit The Whims Of these south.
srn dietators, The whole country was .
b delayed il blood. Twenty Or thirty
thousand southsrnsrs we're t. band to-
gsther, to ssiss the arsenal q Harpsr's|
Ferry, march upon Warrington, take
posssssion Of The United States Trsasu.
~; prevent The Inauguration Of the new
goverDmsus, and psovoks the whole
cslptFy % war.
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! Niss Browns plot Va disclosed )
lstfibls noise was made about Il all over
the 0s1tb, although The worst that bs