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Important Disclosures Respectin: the Uar-
per.s Ferry Plot.
The extracts which we make this morning
from the letters Of Col. HUoH FORBES TO r.
S SAsBoRSE OF Concord, Massachusetts, DIR.
HOWE OF Boston. aud other aboiitionists,
sneak for themselves. They were first pub
lished in she New York Herald of Thursday,
the 37th inst. We gather from that paper the
following particulars with regard to FORBES {:
lie is q Scotchman by birth, and first came to
this country about ten years ago, after the
revolutions in Europe had been put down.
He served some years in the British army,
aud became . companion of GARlBALDI, in
his defence OF Rome. lie was, for a time,
translator and reporter for the Tribune, and
established an Anglo. American paper in
New York, which he was conducting when
he was first introduced to OssAwAToMIE
BsowS, hy the reverend Mr.. LEAvITT, one OF
the editors of the Independent, (BEEcHER's
organ } and great believer in SHARPs rifles
As panacea for all evils, religious and polti-
cal. From the language of the correspondence
we gather that the Hsmdai'ariaaS, as he calls
engagements, to remit certain sums monthly
to FORBES family in Europe, and to support
them after they had come to New York
These terms We're, in the sequel, not complied
with GREELEY and other leaders among the
humaniiarians pleading that they were not
responsible for contracts entered into by Os-
sAwAToMIE BROWN. However, before FORBES
had discovered the utter unreliability of such
promises, and such men, he went 10 Kansas for
the purpose of drilling BROWNS men. 1t is
easier We are disposed 10 think in general, for
rascals to agree than for honest men. This did
no: prove to be the case in the present associa-
ton, however, and Brown and FORBES were
soon at dagger's drawn. FORBES had plan OF
his own for making war upon the South. 1t
was TO organize an army of stampeders all
around the slave States, and by continually
running off the slaves. to drive the frontiers Of
slavery gradually back to the South
Browns plan distinguished in the correspon-
dence "the matured plan," was that which
he adopted and attempted to carry out at Har-
uer's Ferry. FORBES foresaw that this plan
must fail, and to prevent its being attempted,
he put himself in communication with SRw =
AID, SUMNER, HALE, WILSON, CHASE,
EfCHER, &c, and pointed out to them the
deieets OF BROWNS plan, and the superior ex-
ceience Of his own. Some of the Northern
Journals affect to think that SEWARD was IL
nocent of all knowledge in the premises. But
there can be no doubt of the fact; he knew of
the design of OssAwAToMIE Brown as long
ago as May, 1858, when it was communicated
to him ill person, by FORBES at Washington
city for the purpose of enlistIng his infiu-
ence TO prevent its being carried out
The oaly reply he made when thi. intelligence
was communicated to him by FORBES, who,
to use his own expression, event into the
whole matter in all its bearings was (after
the expression of regret that he had been
told.l to the effect that "he in hi, position,
ought not TO hare been informed 9th circnna
eesr FORBES, himself, regrets that he has been
compelled to tell him, and lays the blame on
the New Englanders, who refused to pay him.
"Butm he adds, ''being now enlightened on the
subject he cannot well let this business con-
tinue in its present crooked condition, instead
of causing it to be put straight both as re-
CARDS my children's situation, us well as the
cotton speculation OF the humanitariansn
The cotton speculation here alluded to is
fully explained in the correspondence. Il
seems that BROWN wanted to ''raise a sum by
coming to an understanding with some COM
mercial house (Which to make its own
profit also) by specializing the principal
English and American exchanges for the rise
In cotton which would assured!y result from
the diminulion of the usual supply through
our projected movement" FORBES saws that
he Indignantly rejected this proposition; but
the disclosure of the transactions connected
with the So, 0JU free wool affair, reminds him
OF this proposition, aid induces him to guess
that Brown Is not the only New England hui
manitarian VINO entertains peculiar notions of
Speculation. Indeed" says FORBES, ''greedi-
HeSS 10 i"fn hNrTteiten 10 pteKhidTy Proht mag
not aarsasoHabiy be regarded as the grand motto.
JoF iha! projected mOrem>H! South Of lIaSon's and
Di20n lac, achteA Increment looked upon nntii
Ia:eiy as Lssmg purely ph'lanfhropic. Judging OF
the probable march OF future events By those
past, say to the colored people, as and others
have been duped, viii be the slaves; and il
they rise at lie call of New England HUMANE
iaIlans, they viii undou btedly shed their blood
1or .ile benefit of New England SPECTATORS
Ia these extracts we have the whole secret
OF tnis altempt. 1t was a speculation-a specu-
Iation ia the blood OF Southern men-a cold
biooaed calculation in dollars and cents, OF the
value OF Sou thern lives. II any thing could
Gdd ~ tie unutterabie horror OF such con-
ceplion, it must be the attempt which is now
made by these baiiied spectators, TO exalt the
mercenary scoundrel who was employed u
carry out their schemes, into a hero and a
martyr. OssAwAToMIE Brown, the man who
cooiiy sits down and calculates how much
money he can make by numbering a given
NUMBER Of men, women and children, we are
told is not only both these but lie is very
pious character TO boot, and says his prayers
ne regularly HENRY WARD BEEcHRR, or
the reverend Mr. LEAyIrT. DIR. JOHNSON was
strongly tempted 10 define "patriotism" "the
last refuge OF scoundrel." Ia the name OF
virtue aud religion, we protest against ascrib-
ing any portion OF either to such a cold blood
Cd, nnailoyed, unredeemed unregenerate.
uniimiied, and iiiimitable villain Us OssA-
wAToMiE BROWN. Courage he may have:
but IL is the courage of savage. His
eornrade, FORBES, in his letters relieves
him fully from the charge Of possessing any
other virtue whatever He describes him a.
nercenary and treacherous to the very last
degree, and charges him, in addition, with
brutality and stupidity in many words
One OF his chosen associates was man who
h&d robbed him in Kansas and his reason foi
choosing him was that he had plundered two
houses in Missouri, thus proving, by the seiec
tloa OF a burglar and thief for his bosom friend
that he Is altogether destitute of any claim &
respect, from the professions Of apure motiv,
which his admirers are so ready to claim fol
NM. He lisa bold, determined, bloody despera
40, operated upon by no sentiment higher than
sns nope OF gain, and differing in no rsspec
"hsieser from any other house breaker ant
murderer, whom the officers Of the law are q
ltsnes, called upon 10 daaI ,vtth 1890.