The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-12-01

in that article, is considerably worse
than any thing British that we ever
heard of. Indeed our conscience some
what reproaches us for the libel upon
the brute creation, implied in calling
such subserviency british.
The Real 1nstisators Of John Browns
Conquest of Harper's Ferry.
! Under this caption, we have in a
previoss number, demonstrated salts
factorily we believe, to every intelligent
reader, the utter falsehood of the pro-
slavery Locofoco pretences that Gov.
Seward, Gov. Chase, U. S. Senators
Hale and Wilson, Hon. Joshua r.
Giddings, and other leading Repuoli-
cans were instigators of John Browns
conquest of Harper's Ferry and the
adjacent country.
We also stated that facts enough had
TRANSFERRED to show that Browns in.
vasion was really instigated by pro-
slavery Locofoco agencies in order to
create an occasion for charging it upon
Republicans, and was by such agencies,
fastened so as to take place on the very
eve Of the late important State cleo
lions in New York, New Jersey, and
other States, though without any sus-
picion on the part of Brown, of the
character and object of the agencies;
and that the charges made against Re-
pnblicans, were but the real felon's
hue-and-cry of "stop thief"
These facts we now proceed to lay
before our readers so far rs our space
this week will allow. Amongst the
most significant of them is the one that
in August last, John B. FLOYD, Ex-
Governor of Virginia and Buchanan's
Secretary at War, received the SUBJ
joined letter informing him of Browns
!, intended enterprise, and giving him
the details of it substantially as the
event has proved them to have been.
/ Immediately after the capture of
Brown and his surviving comrades, it
transpired that Floyd had received
such letter, and he published it. or so
much as he saw fit, in the administra-
ton organ at Washington, whence it
has found its way into the newspapers
, generally:
Having published this document
last week we omit it now.
Though the name of the writer of
this letter is suppressed, it is not to be
supposed that it was not given to Floyd
and all others admitted to the secret.
1t appears by the letter itself that the
! writer had been acting as spy upon
.. Brown and his party and had wormed
himself "fully into their confidence"
only to betray it.
| There was, therefore, very good
reason why he was unwilling to have
his name made public; whilst the politi-
cal and pecuniary rewards in the gin
of the Slave Power and its agents of
), the Federal and Slave State admins
trations, which one rendering such SER
vices as his, conld have for the asking,
precludes the idea that he did not ac-
company the letter with private dis
closure of his name; if indeed, he was
notpreviously employed by the admins
tration and paid ont of the secret SER
. vice Fund for rendering precisely those
identical services.
Floyd wholly suppressed so far as
the public is concerned, the fact that
f he had received such letter, until
after the conquest and destruction OF
Browns entire party; though he doubt
less laid it before Buchanan and the
cabinet of which he is a member, and
E let other of the pro-slavery leaders into
the secret.
He now publishes it, and it is re-
published by the pro-slavery press
! generally for the purpose of showing
: that Brown had his plan matured for
! months before executing it. and, there
fore, had ample time to secure the co
operation of the leading Republicans
whom they seek to implicate.
1t doesn't seem to occur to these
worthless that it also shows that Floyd
:, Buchanan, Wise & Co. had ample time
as they had superabundant means, tc
( break up and arrest Browns whole en-
terprise months before it was put into
!, execution. The publication of the
letter itself, would alone have done al
r that.
b Now does it seem to have occurred
! to them that it positively proves thai
! their Secretary at War and his conf
!. Dental correspondent, and establishes
b strong presumption that Buchanan
n I'D he x,,bo1o ooAspof al