Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1859-11-04
MISCEILANY Y.
From the New YORK Tribune
Capt. John Brown.

| observe that the extraordinary and la
men,able events of Harper's Ferry have
called out number of writer's upon the
history and character of the principal act
or, some Of whom are very wide of the
mark, particularly the correspondent Of the
NJ Y. Times. John Brown is an extraor-
binary man, and although all right minded
men must condemn his last mad exploit,
there is no reason why justice should not
be done him. He was born in New Eng
land. which be left at an early age, and has
lived most of his life in Ohio and Pennsyl-
vania. He emigrated from Pennsylvania
to Kanzas, and settled in the Usage coun-
w. He was decided Anti-Slavery man
"a religious enthusiast, rigid Presbyte-
rian-correct and conscientious in all his
relations and conduct, and modest and un-
assuming in his manners. At the same
time he was a man of iron will, of untiring
energy and of unbounded nerve. All who
know him are impressed with the belief
that he never knew fear, and that no man
ever lived who excelled him in cool and
daring intrepidity. In all his affrays in Kan
zas he embarked in the most dangerous and
apparently desperate enterprises, and en-
countered the greatest odds with a cool self
posse ssion and an unbounded confidence IN
his own success. He was made the object
of the most cruel prosecutions of the Mis-
sourians, and all the bitterness and stern
determination of his nature were stirred up
from their very depths in retaliation. One
of his sons was met alone on the road by a
large party of invading Missourians, and
cruelty. brutally murdered without cause.
| Another son was for no cause but hls po
l;tical opinions, loaded with chains and
driven on foot before the horses of his cap,
tors from Osawatamie to Tecumseh, under
such circumstances of cruelty as to destroy
first his reason and next his life. His own
house and the house Of his son, were botb
fred and DESTROYED The women of the
family were grossly insulted, and COM
mittee appointed at public meeting (toi'
lowing the example of the Pro-Slavery
men under Emory, who killed and drove
ont the Free-State men of Leavenworth)
notified Brown ard other Free-State mer
ON Potawatamie Greek that if they did moi
leave the Territory in three days they would
be hung. His friends and neighbors were
murdered around him he was forced int
n war of self-defense, and finally price
was publicly set on his head. The effect o
these things. in connection with all the othei
Ioutrace. oppression and murder perpetratet
around him, upon man of Browns tenn
perament, may be conceived. He became
fighting man, and developed qualities tina
excited the admiration and surprise of hi
friends, and made him the terror OF his enc
mics. Though remorseless and relentles
as death itself, he did everything under
sense of duty and high religious excite
ment. The more fervent his prayers, tn
harder fell his blows. and the more sigma
and bloody his victories, the more hearth.
did he return thanks to the Lord after tn
fight was over
A Committee of five called on him o1
one occasion, and informed him that he mus
: leave the Territory in three days or die
that they would come to bis house with
sufficient force at the end of that time, an
, if they found him still there they woul
hang him. The old man thanked them TO
the notice, saying. very coolly: You tr''
not find me here then, gentlemen Beior
the next sun rose the five members OF tha
Committee were in the other world
Whether Brown killed them or not, Is IN
: known, but il is certain, had they lived, tha
they would have killed him, and no ma
knew that better than he On one oeca
sion the well-known Henry Clay Pate star
ed out from Westport, Missouri, with
party Of SO men, full of boastings and pror