Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1859-11-02
Republican Testimony.

The Editor Of the Tyrone Star, can now
certainly, justly claim to be that which is ex-
tremely rare at the present time-a candid
Republican. In the last number Of his pa
per, lie acknowledges that the insurrection at
Harper's Ferry was an attempt to over throw
the Government. which had been maturing
for years, and that Brown and his followers
were urged on and encouraged in their trea-
| sonable enterprize, by Gerret Smith and 9TH
| er prominent Abolition leaders. He also ac
knowledges that the doctrines promulgated
by Senator Seward d, other distinguished Re-
publicans, contributed not little towards en-
couraging the ultra Abolitionists in planning
and attempting to successfully carryout
this insurrection.
There can be no doubt. that when Brown
commenced operations at Harper's Ferry,
he anticipated that it would terminate in
different manner from that in which it did.
He acknowledged to Governor Wise, that he
expected large reinforcements from different
States, and that he had sufficient number
of Rifles Spears &C., in his possession, for
arming 20OO men. He expected that the
Slaves in Virginia and Maryland would at
once rebel against their masters, that the in
surrection would soon extend to all the South
ern States, and that the ST. Domingo Trage-
dy with all its horrors, would be reanac.ed.
H$pily for the country, the Slaves were not
willing to play the part assigned them Con
sequcG:!!y tic rebellion was put down with
out any difficulty, and Brown is now on trial
before Jury of his countrymen. charged
with the highest crimes, that human being
is capable of committing He is Traitor
and Murderer, and we sincerely hope be
will not escape the punishment which his deep
g1lt merits But W hat shall we say of such
men as Gerret Smith Giddings and Fred
Douglas, who gave Brown laid and com fort"
in his reasonable enterprise. but who kept
at respectable distance when the time for
action hal arrived? AS traitors, they are
his equal But in one respect they are his
interiors; he is brave man, they are cow
ards
In order to show our readers the tone of the
article in the Star, we clip the following ex-
tract from it
This attempt was unsuccessful, not be-
cause it was premature, but because they
mistook the elements with which they had to
deal The slaves did not rush to their sup
port as they anticipated, and in stead of have
ing thousand arme dnegroes a. their backs,
with hourly augmenting numbers, with which
they could march Southward ard light the
fires of rebellion, they found themselves a
lone and unassisted, and crushed out after
few hours of feeble resistance. That this
was a preconcerted movement, and not mere
ly the freak of a madman is proven, besides
the documentary evidence found with Brown,
by the cautionary letter written to Secretary
Floyd mouths ago, and by Smiths letter to
the Jerry Rescue Celebration, in which he
predicts this very attempt saying at the
same time, that telegraps and railroads could
oe rendered useless In moment that the
whole South would be paralyzed and horror
stricken the moment the blow was struck
chat they would make but feeble resistance
to the uprising of their slaves but that their
whole aim would be to hurry their wives and
daughters from the inevitable fate that await
ed them These are not Gerret Smiths
words, but the substance of them. What
was at that time considered the clustering of
a mad Abolitioniss, has now a seeming of
reality. But Mr. Smith has not proven to