Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1859-12-08
An un.urrcrtion yyt,nou, Negroes.

Is reported among the other doings ofthe late .Od
Brown" in his last hours that he severely rcprchended
Cook for having falsely informed him that the negroes
Virginia ready rise Tho prominent idea conne-
ted with tins piece of information is that Brown mis-
taken in respect the disposition of the negroes and
that but for this mistakcwhich the result Of false
intelligence received through one of his associates-he
would not have embarked in the Affair." 1t rather
late in the day to produce such pretense According
to Mrs Brown. the notion OF slave instructions
that had for many years been familiar her husband
Ii he who selected the place where the first semp,
TO b. made. Before Cook became associated with
HIM rising determined upon Like all men Of his
order, he assumed fundamental fact that all the
srocs of the South grooming in servitude and only
wanting invitation throw Of their shaces and de-
clare for liberty death We agree with the Cincin.
natl ERgEirsr that IL is upon this assumpon-to the
proof of whose lsi;y they refuse to isenhAt all Abo
iiiou, Autsavery and Frcesoil operations based
from such Instructions that OF Brown the infam
mAtory aud equally wicked harangues of Beccher whec
lock, Phillips and Emerson and the mlder but less
insidous adurations Of Greeley Gidding Seward Chase
and their associates aud colaborators.
What reply the subordinate made TO his commander
the production OF this charge does appear
i, of much importance. There is however thing in
the circumstance that is not without signfcanee-,be
admission by the leader of the movement that the ne
groes of Virginia not ENTHUSIASTICALLY inclined.
Old Brown had spent his life in the contemplation Of
scrvle instructions. He had selected the place and de-
voted many months the accumulation OF means to |
give absolute certainty his first attempt He had
veil supplied with money, and had been able to sccumu
lite all the necessary material He had many follow
he deemed necessary, and far appears, en-
c)untered impeachment in his choice and improvement
OF the calculated 10 insure He had been
able without exciting the slightest suspicion TO place
his and munitions precisely where he desired them
be- and any before giving the signal to be-
GIN could have retired free of all danger disturbance
In every element but he the master Of the cir.
instances and if that only propous he had the
right TO expect a complete and triumphant eonsum-
nation.
Yet the failure utter and unmitigated. There was
only Instruction but signs nor symptoms Of
one. The parties in favor abor lse and
rsk undertaken all this danger encountered and all
this pain, iguominy and death suffered apparently
the only that took of interest in the affair
Tae negro stood by an uncoaccrned spectator Of pseu
ioinsurreetion in which according to the programme
be should have played the leading character 1t is this
fact; which, however 1t NAV be obscured by multiplied
y Of philtnthropc commonplace will give the Har-
er's Ferry tragedy the aspect OF farce remain in
history the btierest possible satire upon the aumme-
- grandloquenee and submAted trash Of Anii-savery
Efforts and literature.
\ negro instruction without negroes will have to
sand OF the great inventions OF modern philAn-
.hrOpy. Whether our phlanthropsts have discovered
is full length and breadth the intense aud unmitga-
ted abssrdiy of the thing and throwing in few e1
IA hONls TO keep OF sigh; of others or whether
It has hot yet broken upon their understandings is
, i. Il.