The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-11-07
THE HARpER's FERRY INVASION.
Haziitt Given Up to the Authoritie. of y,r.
sinin-Reply Of Gov. Wise to Lydia Ma.
ria Child-BfowD's Execution 10 be slh.
served as bay Of Mourning. &c.

1 a
ria Child-Bfown's Executia., a. \. an.
served as Day Of Mourning, &c.
The telegraph announces that ON Saturda
last Hazlitt alias VIM. Harrison. In prison a,
Carlisle, Pa, was surrendered to the authori.
hes OF Virginia, on the requestion of Governor
Wise. The prisoner left there at o,c,oc,, IN
the afternoon, in charge of eficers en- route
for Charlestown, Va, via Chambersburr The
Enquirer of Saturday publishes the follow.
ing:
INTERESTING GcoRREspoNDEyoE BETWEEN MRS
/ CHILD AND GOV. WISE
WAYLAND, MASS, Oct. asth. 1850.
Governor WISE: have heard that You were
| a man of chiyalrons sentiments and know
| you were opposed to the iniq quitous attemnf to
| iorce upon Kansas 4 Constitution abhorrent
10 the moral sense of her people. Relying upon
.nose indications OF honor and justice in your
aracter, venture TO ask favor of YOU En-
| closed is letter to Capt John Brown. will
you have the kindness, after reading il your
| sell to transmit it to the prisoner
i, ana all my large circle of abolition ac-
| quaintances We're taken by surprise when
| news came of Capt Browns recent attempt:
nor do know of single person who would
nave approved OF it, had they been apprised
% .! ms intentions. But L, and thousands of
Others, feel natural impulse of sympathy for
| the brave and suffering man. Perhaps God
| VINO sees the inmost of our souls perceiyes
some such sentiment in yom heart also He
| needs mother or sister to dress his vounds
| and speak soothingly to him. Will Won allow
me 10 perform that mission of humanity If
| deed!
have been, for years, an uncompromisinr
aboiitionist and l should scorn to DENY it, or
apologize for it, as much as John Brown him
| sell would do. Believing in peace principles
ueepIy regret the step that the old veteran has
TAKEN, while l honor his humanity toward
| tlOSe VINO became his prisoners Rut heeauSa
IL Is my hablt to be as open as the daylight
VIII also say that if / believed our religion
Just'neu men In lighting for freedom, should
CONSIDER the ens!ayed. every where as best en-
'itiea 10 that right. Such an avowai is a sim
PIE, frank expression of my sense of natural
J9stiee. But should despise myself utterly,
II any Clrcums stances could tempt me to seek
to advance these opinions. in any way. directly
OF iuairectIy, after your permission TO visit
virginia had been obtained on the plea of sis
teriy sympathy with a brave and suffering
man. give You my word of honor-which
was never broken-thatI L would use such per
MISSION solely and singly for the purpose of
nursing your prisoner, and for no other pur.
pose whatsoever. Yours, respectfully,
L. MARIA CHILD.
Then follows the letter of Mrs Child to
"Dear Captain Brown in which she saws
that she does not sympathize with his s.meth-
| cd" of liberation but ..reyeres'. his motive.
and good deal more of the same style. Gov.
RICHMOND, Oct 90. 1859
MADAM: Yours of the 26ih was received bv
NE yesterday, and at my earliest leisure re-
sprctiuiiy reply to it, that l will forward the
letter Tor j ohm Brown, a prisoner under our
laws, arraigned at the bar of the Circuit Court
Tor the county OF Jefferson, at Charlestown
Va, for the crimes of murder robbery and
treason, which You ask me TO transmit to him
L Will comply with your request, in the only
way which seems to me proper by enclosing
ii u the Commonweaith'sA Attorney with the
REG Dest that he will ask the permission of the
Court to hand it to the prisoner. Brown, the
prisoner, is now in the hands of the j judiciary
not IF the Executive, of this Commonwealth
You ask me further To allow you to perform
The mission sol mother or sister. to dress his
wounds and speak soothingly 10 him.' BY
this of course, you mean to be allo ed 70 visit
him i'll his CELL, aud II minister TO him in the
offices of humanity. Why should YOU not be
SO allowed, Madam Virginia and Massachu-
setts are involved in no civil war; and the Con-
J tuition, which unites them in one ConIede-
racy, guarantees to you tie privileges and i'm
munltieS OF q citizen of The U.ited States in
the State of Virginia. That Constitution
am sworn to support, and am, therefore, bound
TO protect your privileges and immunitie as
a CT riZen of Massachusetts coming into Fir-
gina for any lawful and peaceful purpose
Coming, as you propose, 10 minister to the cap
tive in prison, you Will be met, doubtless all
our people, not only in a chiyalrous, but in Il
Christian spirit You have the right to visit
Charlestown, Va, Madam, and your mission,
being rntrciful and humane, will not only b..
allowed but respected, if not welcomed
A few, unenlig gh tened and inconsiderate per-
sons, tanatIcal III their modes OF thought and
action TO maintain justice and right. might
modest you or be disposed to do 50, and this
might suggest the inprndence of risking any
experiment upon the peace of society very
much excited by the crimes with whose Chief
author you seem TO sympathlZe so much; but
still, repeat, your motives and avowed pur-
poses are lawful and peaceful, and l will, as
far as l am concerned, do my duty in protect
ing your rights in our limits. Virginia and
her authorities would be weak indeed-weak
in point of folly and weak in poat of power
If her State faith and constitutional obli-
cations cannot be redeemed in her own limits
10 the letter of morality as well as of law, and
if her chivalry cannot courteousiy receive a
lady's visit TO prisoner. Every arm which
guards Brown from rescue on the one hand
and lynch law on the other, will be ready to
guard your person in Virginia. l could not
permit an insult even TO woman in her walk
of charity among us, though it be to one who
whetted knives of butchery for our "mo1hers,
sisters daughters and babes. We have no
sympathy with your sentinents of sympathy
with Brown, and are surprised that you We're
'taken by surprise when news came of Capt
Browns recent attempt His attempt was
a natural consequence of your sympathy, and
the error of that sympathy ought TO make you
doubt its .yirture, from the effect on his con-
duct But it is not of this / should speak
When you arrive at Charlestown, if you go
there it will be for the Court and its officers
the Commonwealths Attorney, Sheriff and
Jailor to say whether you may see and wait on
the prisoner. But, whether you are thus per-
mitted or not (and you will be, if my advice
can prevail. you may rest assured that he will
be humanely, lawfully, and mercifully dealt
by, in prison and on trial.
Respectfully, HENRY A. w fsrr~~.
To L. MARIA CHILD.
A DAY OF MOURNING.
The abolitionists of Boston evidently regard
Brown as d" done for" and are making prepa-
rations for the "proper observation . OF the
day of his execution, as will be seen from the
following:
AT a meeting OF the Executive Committee of
the Amerit an Anti-Siavery Society, held i'll
Boston. Nov. l. the following resolution was
adopted:
Kesoirea. That ii is recommended to the
friends of impartial freedom throughout the
free States in case of the execution of Capt
John Brown, now on trial for his life in Eir-
gini2, TO observe that tragical event, on the
day of its occurrence, in such manner by
them may be deemed most appropriate in their
various localities-whether by public meetings
and addresses, the adoption of resolutions
private conferences, or any other unsuitable
mode of action-for. The turtherance of the
Anti-Siavery cause and renewedly to conse-
crate themselves to the patriotic aud Christian
work OF eiiecting the abolition of that most
dangerous, unnatural, cruel and impious sys-
TEN of slavery, which is the fruitful source of
all our sectional heart burnings and conflicts,
which powerfully and increasingly tends to
promote serviie insurree tions and civil war,
which cannot be more truly or more compre-
hensiveiy described than as ''the sum OF all
villainies," which is a burning disgrace and
fearful curse to the whole country, and by the
speedy extinction of which, alone, can the land
be saved from violence, blood and utter demor-
iliZation.
In behelf of the Executive Committee of the
American Anti-Slavery Society.
WIN. LLOYD GARRISON, President.
WENDELL PHILLIPS, tSr..r;a
CHARLES g. BURLEIGH.
A WARNING VOICE.
\ The following, says the New York Express,