The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-11-10
mo thief e'er felt the halter draw
With GOOD opinion of the law"

The Hash uthors have all been struck will
this eculiar trait in the family character anC
all their heroes are sure 10 sentimentalize upol
the cruelty of the law in depressing men o
their vast pretensions, and opposing bstacle
to their lofty aspirations. BROWNS admirers
however, and BROWN himself admit no proto
type in the JONATHAN WILDEs, JACK SHRP
fARDs, PAUL CLIFFoRDs EUGENE ARAMs
DICK TURPiNs and GUY FAwKES of the novel
lists. The former find a w onderful resemblance,
between him and certain characters in the Ole
Testament, such rs MOSES and JOSHUA ant
he himself says he is like ST. PETER "Yor
know" he tells the q uaker lady, "that Chris
once armed PETER. &c. also, in my case
think he put sword in to my hand and there
contin ued it SO long he saw best and then
Kindly took it from me- and he goes on TO ex-
press wish that she could see how he is now
welding " the sword Of the spirit"
tits q psychological fact, net yet accounted
for by any philosopher so far as we know, that
convicted criminals are, above all other mer,
anxious to excite the admiration of the world.
This sentiment account. for the pertinacity
with which many of them stick to lies once
uttered, even at the foot of the gallows. ITO
die game" is the great object of the felon
when he has no other on this side of the grave
1t 10 melancholy TO think how much this
spirit is encouraged by the notoriety which
their crimes and their punishment are sure to
attract. In order that he may live for a week
or a month in the mouths of the multitude,
this man, instead of seeking pardon where
alone it may be had, for the horrible crimes
with which he has loaded his SOUL persists in
representing himself as martyr, in a cause
which he affects to consider the most pure and
holy that ever enlisted the svmpathies of man
Yet nothing is more certain than that he doe.
not believe one word of what he is so anxious
to make others believe. There is not one par
ticie Of truth in all he or his friends assert
with regard to the motives which first prompt.
cd him to take part in the civil broiis of Kan
sas. He was enlisted to go there, by men az
INSCRIPTIONS as himself, but more cowardIy.
by the promise of pay. They knew well enough
what he was, when they bought his services.
They knew he was a bold, bloody, determined
villain, a horse-thief by profession, and man
who would sickle at crime TO carry out
bis purposes. His career while there is like
any thing rather than the life of saint. In
one night with a band of seven armed men, he
took out of their beds, one by one five individ-
uaIs, murdered them in cold blood cut their
threats aud otherwise mutilated them in a
manner shocking to think of, and left them on
the highway, prey to dogs, hogs, the beasts of
the Aeid and the birds of the air. On another
occasion, he crossed the river into Missouri
murdered slay ehoi der stole his money and his
horses, and carried off his negroes to Canada
With cold blooded atrocity he formed the de-
eign to waylay the members of the Lecompton
Convention singiy, and murder them one after
another. For more than two years past, he
has been parading the free States and Collect
ing means for raising an insurreetion in the
South, the grand object of which was to make
. fortune by raising abe price of cotton. In
the Cous tuition which he drafted, he express
ly aaade the wealth in watches and jewelry
which he was to acquire, a main object of the
prujecied war. Such man is no enthusiast,
And it Ia In vain to represent him AS such
Those who employed him knew what he was,
and what kind oi work he would be certain TO
a., II coin saissioned by them.
The following letter, addressed to the ed-
tors Of the Charleston Courier, with the intro
dpctory remarks OF The Courier, gives the lie
direct TO the imputed motive of Old BROWN,
for lhe murders at Harper Ferry:
[Frou the Cnar,es ton Courier OF Monday, Novem-
fer lst
"a yaiiant friend row rosIdins on James lslar d
Who scr = ed faithful tour m Kansas. on behalf OF
the south, inform, that the lie and state
u. mis- when are reported as found anon. Old
BAoWA paps rs. are IN tans r. spects false Tn [
II end, whose name MAJ be ,lven hereafter, il be
ysso. nlz-d b, nsn NJ readers, who will gladi, re
COVE tho staten, nus and ex planat "a Promised
Meanwhile we be. attention to the following let
ter" James leland, 5. c., Oct. 18th 1889 - II
- stated by Northern papers that Old Baowx was
led to the POI petfaon oil MS cate acts, IN retalfa
ton oil us Treatment at the hands of the border
Teh.ns IN Kansas PARTICULARLY the killing of h =
son Fl HnEEick. am well posted on Old t5Rowh's
lille IN kansas and II Is truthful statement OF the
ssihe desired -, you, will devote an hoar to In.
euueet. a.ass as Jdet, tadl hts SON Bca, ktLled
~ AassdA, ~ a Free state man, citizen Of III
Nos@, and a MIN sTEE OF THE GOSPEL IA nan
10y report, murdered by pro- slavery
ne Nofthefp papers, particularly the New YORK
2 Irftsat, VAT renol nixe the man, when | declare
thr Poor Martin " hte was the man that shot
I'd BkDWA'r son. IL done and the Same
d.. 1 shot Old Bsows. and nov rearet that did
I'm " Nea merely cloak 20 MS THE yias pro
tsss!sssss % hAviHs eseI the leader Of sang Of