Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-10-22
THE FRUIT

By Geographic dispatches and newspaper items
we learn that an instruction among the slaves,
who were aided by white men, occurred ut IIar-
per's Ferry. While the present excited state of
feeling exists in that vicinity, too much credence
should not be given to the various flying reports.
There are, however, some details which appear
reliable, and from which we collate the following
brief statement.
On Sunday evening, the 18th inst. at 10Y o'clock,
an attack was made upon the U. 5. Arsenal at
Harper's Ferry by O small band of white and
black men, numbering not NOR Q than twenty, or
twenty five persons. Tho surprise produced BY
their attack was so great that they readily gained
possession Of the building, and retained as priso-
nerS such of the officers and workmen of The estab-
Iishment as they could lay hands Oh. The tele-
graph wires were cut, and the railroad trains stop
ped; and this was all done so rapidly and SO quiet
y, that it did not arouse the inhabitants of the viii
lage, who awoke to find that every avenue Of es-
cape from their town was guarded, and that they
were prisoners.
AS soon as these facts were known, the region
around was wild with excitement. Intelligence
was transmitted to the State and National author
tiles, and troops were Immediately des patched to
the scene of outbreak for the restoration and pre-
servation of order. On Monday, the armory in
which the insurgents-as they are callei-had en-
trenched themselves was stOrmed and they mostly
killed or taken prisoners. Quite q number OF
persons who were connected with them, though
not OF the party at the Arsenal, are reported to have
secreted themselves in the mountains, whIle a con-
siderable body. it is affirmed. have marched into
Pennsylvania. The feaIs of the inhabitants have
probably exaggerated the number engaged in the
enterprise, and being able to find SO few, they feel
it necessary to account in some way for the where
ubouts of the others.
The leader, who is said to be Captain John
Brown, Of Ossawattomee, was dangerously, if not
MORALLY wounded, and his son is reported to have
been killed. Capt. Brown, first appeared in that
neighoorhood more than a year ago under the
name Of Smith; and he declares that his intentions
were to liberate the slaves. The movement was
certainly a bold une, bu, 1t failed; and with the
many will pronounce it i~lljudged or premature.
who, lad il succeeded, would have pointed to it as
eminentIy judicious and wise.
A5o itionists have long been strugg ling for the
peaceful overthrow Of American slavery, and I'M
less the system is thus destroyed, it wiH,i it Must 20
down in blood. Being a violation Of Gods moral
government, it is doomed to perish. 1t is in vain
that tyrants seek TO eternize the institution the
day Of its destruction will arrive sooner or later,
and woe be unto those who press fuller and full
err the measure of the boBdman's agony. The
continuance Of slavery will bur deepen the terrors
Of its retribution; and if its fires are to be quench-
ed 10 the blood Of the despot. with what tremen-
dous force will come rolling down through the
years of time the thrilling declaration Of Thomas
Jefferson, .1hat IN such a contest The almighty has
no attribute which acU take sides UiM the oppressor."
Each hater Of slavery must labor for it's over
throw in tho way which seemeth to him best-act-
ing out his oDn convictions of right, and welding
bis oun weapons for its destruction. We admire
the love of freedom which made glorious the mar
tyrdom of a Warren, and which hallowed the spot
upon which he fell but in saying this. we do not
wish to be understood as endorsing the deeds by
which he made manifest The love of freedom with
in. To him, doubtless, they seemed the proper
exponents Of his faith to US, they appear as al
pable violations of the Christian principle of peace.
The world does not so regard them this nation
does not 30 esteem them, and General Joseph
Warren is to-day honored, not only for his love Of
liberty, but for his deeds at Bunker Hill, which
The nation stamps with its approval. Captain
John Brown is as true a patraiot as was General
Joseph Warren, and liberty was as much the aim
and end of his life as it was that of the youthful
hero of the Massachusetts colony. His resistance
to the pro-slavery government Of the United States
though unsuccessiul-is as much 70 be applaud
ed as was Warren's opposition to the government
of George 3rd and his capture at Harper's Ferry
as much TO be deplored as the fall of Warren at
Bunker Hill. Posterity will do ihetn both Justice.
and the names OF Warren and of Brown will be
remembered as those Of liberty's most heroic mar