Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1859-11-30
CHARACTER OF JOHN BROWN, THE MUR
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CHARACTER OF JOHN BROWN, THE MUIR
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The following is a copy Of letter recently re-
ceived by prominent citizen Of this State sj'f -
......l ,..r g Kansas CRY, No., Novs 2,ilso9 "a
Although unknovn to- you. personally, tina mo-
tive which prompts me-a desire to see an unexam7s
pied villain receive his deserts at the hand Of justice
will hope, be my pardoned excuse for this letter:
By the telegraph see John Browns pluck as ex-i
hibited in his trial and the late disturbance at Har
per's Ferry, have excited in your breast, as would
naturally be the case with every chivaric man, an
admfring sympathy. MY purpose is to relate to
you a passage in Browns life that may place his
true character before YOU He stated in his CONVEX
saton with Senator Mason, Mr.. Valandigbam, and
others, that save in fair fight, he never shed human
blood. In June, 1856. series of the most bastard
murders were perpetrated on Potowatomle creek.
Mr. Wilkinson, an inoffensive and quiet farmer, VINO
had never taken up arms in Kansas, was dragged
from the side of his wife, who had been confined
but two or three days before and had his head split
OPEN his throat cut and his hands cut of, and his
body and members thus mutiated thrown rack into
the house at the feet of his wife On the same
night, the houses of two brothers, named Doyle,
were entered by the same band, eight in number;
they were taken from their beds and fouly murder
cd. That night five murders were committed by
that party of eight Kansas outlaws These muir
ders brought on the difficulties that devastated the
Territory in the summer and autumn OF 1886, as
you may remember. Mrs. Wilkinson. younger
brother of the Doyles and every one conceded these
brutal murders were committed by John Brown,
who has Just been convicted in Jefferson county, Va
Samuel Walker, who took Capt Titus, in 1855,
now sheriff of Douglas county, X. T., and promi-
nent Free State man. with Carmi Babcock, Presi-
dent of the late Council (Senate) of the Territorial
Legislature, on Sunday last had quarrel with
Thatcher, editor of the Republican" abolition
newspaper in Lawrence, who justified those muir
ders. Walker and BaLcock denounced them. Walk
er said he had large party, of men, Brown among
them: that late in the evening Brown car:e to him
pro-slavery men. Walker refused. Brown took his
son and six more men, making eight, and went off,
That night the murders above enumerated were
committed; and the next morning old John Brown
rode up to a wagon, and threw into it a sabre,
bloody from the hit to the point saying at the tme
with fendish smile, "don't that look like it had
done some work? ?" Walker said that nights hor
rors made lunatic Of Browns son, who is, l be-
lieve still so; that on his return next morning he
mad; that he rode day and night without heed;
and was perpetually starting from some terrible
Object. Walker added: these were the most bru-
tai murders ever heard Of; and when told Of them,
| expected the Mis>ourans would come over and
massacre every Free State man in the Territory"
These are simple facts, and will, hope, disabuse
your mind of any mistaken feeling of mercy you may
have entertained for this human fcnd.--Richmond
Enquirer.
NORTHERN SESrNESr-The New York Tribune of
Thursday assures its readers and the public general
" that the people of New York and New Jersey
"havc no mind either to dissolve the Union them
selves let it be dissolved by others" and that the
way which the said people" are going to follow is
to "take care" that after march, 1851 there shall
be President in the White House "atter the pat
tern of I4ndrem Jackson"
The Alexandra (Va.) Sentinel referring to the
above very properly says:-"If the Tribune wants
to save the Union, let it know that it can be DONE
only by taking care" that there shall be lin the
North, citizens latter the pattern of Andrew Jack
son." and Washington, and the men of the early
times, when men ,oho called themselves brothers
acted like brothers.
"If the Tribune is anxious to dissolve the Union
with the least possibedelay, let it continue to write
such absurd threats the above, and as that which
append from its neighbor and cu-laborer, the n.
Y Courier and Enquirer. These writer's surely
cannot be so rey dull and so incapable of estimating
the promptngs of manly instinct as to suppose that
the South can he thus intimidated If our people
were not so calm, these threats might arouse their
indignation. At present they scarcely awake the
smile of contempt because neither value nor re-
gard men who arc capable Of such things"
The New York Courier and Enquirer, edited by
Chevalier James Watson Webb, after general
flourish as to Northern suierings from Southern ar
rogance, INDUCES in the following gasconade:-
LET the South now understand that if any portion
of this great conederacy whether it lie the East or
the West North or the South, attempt to withdraw
from the Union, it will be promptly achipped-aye,
schipped into subsection. 1t is all idle to mince the
matter The fiat has gone forth and will be enfor-
ced let Washington, Oregon and California at the
NJ ov.l
chuSetts at the Northeast the agricultural States
at the North and Centre, the slave States of the
South and Soutwest-let any of them or any combi
nation of them raise the banner of rebellion against
the American Union-we care not what the pretence
for treason-as certain there God certain is
that the offending States will be 'chipped into obedi
ence and the traitors who encourage rebellion ter
inmate their career upon the gallOwS.
1.-The North, the Centre, and the West-the great
heart and efficient limbs of the Confederacy are all
true to the Union and the Constitution; and should
disunon raise its head at the South, John Brown
has taught the world how much opposition from
that quarter is really worth.
'If seventeen fanatics led on by mailman, could
hold in subsection town containing two thousand
Virginians and keep at bay whole Regiments of Vr-
ginia Militia, who even under the eye of their Gov
ernor dared not attack their invaders but stood by
and saw twelve T. s. marines make the assault and
capture in ten minutes; what would these boastful
soldiers do, when confronted by Northern valor,
banded together under the Constitution, and bear
ing aloft the banner of the Union? Why our Sew
enth Regiment alone, in such cause.-the cause of
the Union and the Constitution it would be,
by the good men Of tho slave States, would prompt
ly overrun every rebelious State Of the South and
compel them to return to their allegiance"
The Chevalier Webb is nearly as "crazy" as
old Brown, or he would never talk about aohip-
ping" southern men into submission to the practi-
cal realities Of the "rrepressible conflict But his
threatenings are simply ridiculous. The North will
never attempt to whip" the South or if it should,
it will certainly never succeed-that's all. But we
suggest to Webb and other Northern Sewardtes,
to stop their insolence to the South-Rich Whiq
MARRIAGE NoTIcE.-The Louisiana Baptist says !:
"No one ought to send marriage notice to an editor
without dollar or at least the name of the BRIDE
groom as subscriber. This is good Presbyterian