Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-10-31
Further Developments.


. New York, Oct. 81.
The New York Herald publishes series of
letters from Col. Forbes, the author of in
struction books for guerilla warfare found AT
Browns house, to various Republicans, prin-
cipally to F. B. Sanborn. Secretary of the
Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Society, and Dr.
S. G.. Howe, of Boston. One letter addressed
to the latter. dated May 1858, is prefaced by
the following memorandum
Please show to Sanborn, Lawrence & Co.
Copies are TO be sent to Gov. Chase. who
found money, and Gov. Fletcher, who con-
tributed arms to others interested as quickly
as possible. The letters give plans of Forbes
and Brown for an insurrection. Forbess
plan was to have carefully selected white and
colored persons organized along the northern
slave frontiers of Virginia and Maryland, es-
peel lily series of stampedes of slaves, each
one of which operations would carry off in
one night and at the same place twenty to
fifty slaves. This was to be effected once or
twice Il month, and eventually once or twice
a week, along noncOntiguous posts of the
line, if possible, without conflict, only resort
ing to force If attacked. Slave women accus-
toned to fi''ld labor would be nearly as useful
as nsen. Everything being i'll readiness to
pass on the fugitives, they could be sent with
such speed to Canada that pursuit would be
hopeless. In Canada preparations were to be
any disaster which ght befall 4 stampede,
would at the utmost compromise only those
who might be engaged in that single one we
therefore were not bound in good faith to the
AboitiOnsts, as we did not j opardiZe that
interest to consult more than those engaged
in the very project, against the chance of loss
by occasional accidents should be weighed
the advantages of n series of successful runs,
the slave property would thus become unten-
al, no
be pushed more and more southwad, and 1t
might reasonably be expected that the excite
ment and irritation would impel the pro
slaveryites TO commit some stupid blunder.
The Missouri frontier being so far from the
babitable part of Canada and the political
parties. anti and pro-savery, being IN that
State (MissourD 20 nearly balanced. suggest
peculiar action in that quarter. which would
depend in great measure on affairs in Kan
sas
Brown made different scheme. He pro-
posed, with some twenty five colored and
whites mixed, well armed and bringing u
vuantity of spare arms, To beat up slave
quarter in Virginia. To this Forbes object
ed; that no preparatory notice having been
given to the slaves, none could with pru-
dence be given. The invitation TO rise IN ght
unless they were already i'll a stale OF aglta-
ton, meet with no response or feeble one.
| To this he replied that he was sure of re-
spouse. He calculated that he could get on
| the first night, from 200 to 800. Half or
whereabouts of this first lot he proposed to
keep with him, mounting 100 or 80 of them,
| and maxi dash at Harper's Ferry manufac-
| tory. destroying what be could not carry of.
| The other men. not Of his party, were TO be
subdivided into or 5 distinct parties, each
under 2 or 3 of the original band. and would
| beat up other slave quarters, whence more
! would be sent to join him. The burden OF
| FOrhes's letters are. grievous complaints for
! not receiving the aid promised for bis ser
| vices. which was to be sent To Paris for the
support of Forbes's family. In one letter he
! says. ION the lst of May. 1858, l had an
interview with Senator William II. Seward,
of New York. | went fully into the whole
| matter in all its hearings. He expressed
! regret that he had been told, and said that
| he in his position ought not to have been IN
| formed of the circumstances. In part agree
| with him and in part | differ. regret that
| the misconduct nfthc New Englanders should
| have forced me to address myself To him, but,
| being now enlightened on the SUBJ CT. he
! cannot well let this business continue in its
present crooked condition. a cotton specu-
lation was devised 10y Brown. but objected to
| by Forbes. Brown told him that Amos
| Lawrence, of Boston. has promised him ST.
! 900 when hostililies had actually cummenc-
| ed. All these letters were written in 1858.
CHARLFsTowN. Oct. 81.
John Copeland the mulattO prisoner from
| Oberlin. Ohio, has made full confession to
the u. S. Marshal. Mr.. Martin, of Va. and
! Mr.. johnson, OF the Northern District of Ohio.
| He has given the names of the parties at
! Oberlin who induced him TO go to Harper
| Ferry. who furnished him the money for his
| expenses, &c. He also states that move
! mcnt of a similar character was contempla-
| ted in Kentucky about the same time. Many
| persons in Northern Ohio, whose names have
| heretofore been mentioned, are directly i'm
| plicated. His confession iswithhrld from the
| public until the trial is over by order of Gov.
| Wise
Mr.. johnson was shown to-day a large
| number OF letters duplicating Gerrit Smith
aud a numbr of prominent men of Oberlin,
| Cleveland, and other points in Ohio. Among
| the letters in one sighcd Horace Greedy IL
| CO., that had enclosed S5l from seven letters
| from Kansas and two from Ohio. 1t was di-
! rected to j. ii. kagi, one of the killed. but
| as he had been a correspondent OF the 1rI-
bine, this evidently enclosed his pay. Anoth-
| er letter tro Capt. Brown tn one of his
sons, dated April l6, 1859; details vsi, to
| Gerrit Smith, at Petersboro. n. Y, which
the writer regarded highly encouraging;
! that Smith gave him 500, and that he also
received ut his house a note which he consid-
cred good for 5000 more: also. that Smith
had written To his friends at the East that
$1,000 must he raised for Brown. OF which he
would agree TO furnish one fifth himself
There il also n notice of draft from she
Cashier of the New York State Bauk sent
him by direction Of Gerrit Smith, dated Al
bany, Aug. 20. 1859.
Marshal johnson also has list Of officers
of the provisional government. and also
list of the contributors to the project.
Marshal johnson left Tor Cleveland last
evening, taking copies with him. The ex-
animation made by Marshal Johnson settles
the fact that this movement had long been
threatening; that many prominent menin the
Northern States lave given money and intiu-
enee 10 its BEHALF aud when the facts are