, 1859-10-24
The narper's Ferry Tragedy.


1He AepuuHcuuS HafG uEiGE CuuuaEIIeA Ut
countenanced violence, either in respect to s!ar-
cry or any other subject, but they hnse resisted
aud rebuked it, on all occasio as, and with All
their might. Those inw1ess schemes and deeds
which huye disgraced tue nation for some years
past, hare not been their work. ltWas not they
who invited the Missouri maEauders into Kan.
Bas, to outrage and butcher innocent settlers.
1t was not they who perpetratcd the sack Of
Lawr. ice, burning the hotels, destroying the
prin presses, and shooting the women and
chil. Il. Nor hare the Republicans sustained
the ms Of The tilll5uster Walker in bis a.
tesnI :, to land bodies Of armed cut.throats upon
the shoes Of n pcnceful and unot1ending nation,
10 piundcr its property. murder its citizens, and
oserturu it's political government: Neither have
they endearored 10 produce an invasion Of the
territory Of Mexico By United States troops, in
order to stir up evil war in sister Kepublc
and seize her provinces. Much less have they
recommended rhe forcible seizure Of the ialaud
Of Cuba justlfiablc and necessary part Of
our public policy.
Osawatomie Brown is disciple of the Fill
buster school. He has thought it just as right
aud proper 10 invade Virginia as it was for the
pro-stavcry party to invade Kansas, Nicaragua,
Mexico. OF Cuba. His reasons hare been pro-
bully the same: 4 great evil, in his opinion:
exists in Virginia; il is bis manifest destiny"
to abate it; and, following the examples TINT
hare been set him, be has undertaken 10 abate
it With fire and sword. Mad as the act was, and
dep1orabfe as lie consequences of it might have
been, it proceeded from the same atrocious prin-
ciples which dictate Kansas forays, Central
American tillbuster1sms, and Cuban invasions.
We defy tho champions Of those schemes to
show tho least difference ia the several cases.
We call upon them TO a!!ege single reason in
just ficatiun Of their measures, which Brown
might not with equal propriety allegc in behalf
of bis. If he is IN incendiarJ, 80 are they; If
bis plat wis diabolicat, 50 were their plots; and
the tnos, alrocious they mike his conduct ap-
pear, the more they expose the atrocity Of their
OWE cntthuct. Brown, moreover, had the e1-
cuse Of his personal grievances for bis crimes;
hs hus been stung into fierce ami unreaectins
rsncor By his wrongs; whereas the abettors Of
Atchison aud Walker projected their ontrnges
selfish purposes.
That Mr. Buchanan will be prompt in the sup
preston of the Virginia disturbance we hare
no doubt; although he has dealt 50 iaxiy with
tue tilibnsters md slave traders: neither haze
Es any doubt that 1r. CHASE, Or VI. St1pord, j
Efficient. Nothing in the public life Of those EN-.
inent men has ever glTen warrant for the sus-
ricion That they would sympathise with disor-
der and bloodshed. They arc opposed to the
extension Of slavery, but they have atways made
that hostility known in q legitimate wuy.
The weapons OF their warfare have been truth
and justice, and not The rifle aud the bowie
knife. Their hopes Of success in rcscuing the
territories from the curse Of bondage, and put
tiu. a stop TO tile spread Of q pefnlcious social
system, rcpose upon their confidence in the
good sense aud nobler instincts OF the American
people. R<rots insurrections and c7rl tears, th<y
art fully arar<, al er<ry stnsi1!e man must b,
.cM not Jurther f<;r ojtets, schilt they eaa OILY
produce incatculabts misekiJs.
The Sta!<s, the journal Of Commerce, the
Htrald, aud other Democratic newspapers know
this perfectly well; but they cannot resist the
temptation Of trying to turn the odium WHICH
properly attaches to tempeEing with dawes to
hut the public are not so atrnat fool as these
journalists imagine 1t has sense enough 10
discriminate between truth and falsehood. 1t
knows the precise position assumed By the Re-
1ubscans On all the questions Of the dag, andit
will trace to the true sources those doctrines uf
violence on which Brown mud his fanatical as-
sociaies have acied- Meanwhilc, let us caution
the southern prints, which persist in calling
the Republicans Abolitionists, and which never
refer to them but as banded together for the
purpose Of ovcrtLsowing slarcrS in the States,
to beware Of the effects Of such representations
on the sersIle population.
lFsoa the National 1ntsl1ecneezl
This outbreak, coming without my premoni-
tion, and reused By no proyocation, has been as
sudden as it is mysterious in its origin and OBJ
jects. No longer assuming the proportions Of
q local riot, It now appears to hare been
phseuzied movement, Conducted without precon-
cert, as without any definite plan Of operations,
designed to stir up the fell spirit Of serrile re-
volt in the bosom OF peaceful community.
It seems, iudecl, diiicul. to conceive that any
number Of persons, however malignant, could
deliberately embark in an enterprise 50 fool
hardy as this appears to have been, from the nc-
counts thus far received, which represent tue
whole number ofpersons originally engaged in
the 1noy cment not to hare exceeded twenty two,
111$ $AtI 11.1f {rhnfhtAr prn harn Imam he
character or extent Of the conspiracy, its prompt
suppression should serve to point \ Lesson in
warning againat any attempts Of q nature 50
criminal, aud which must ever be destined to
an overthrow at once signal and sumE1ary. The
time surely has not come when it is needful to
psint tho cnornity Of such proceeding as that
which has Just come to an end so isnoble and
DISASTROUS 10 the misguided men WHO precipita-
ted this outbreak, and for whose fate, u iaeir
.not,rts and o14cts trert snch a. Il riprtstnf<d,
M<rt triI BE- no +ympdthy t1ttTtaintd ia any part
eftAt land.
IFroe, tie y. Y. ncsald1
We have thus before US some Of the ripeuing
f1uits Of that m,schicvous re-openiuc Of the
slavery agitation in 1854, commenced b. Doug
las aud Pierce os Presidential candidates for
the decisive vote Of the South in the Ciucin-
natl Convention, There would have been NO
war. iu Kansas between Southern pro-slaEesy
adyepturers aud Northern an.i,slarery emf
10 them to fight out the slare1y issue, face to
face, on the soil Of Kansas. And this man
Brown was only discharged guerilla free-statc
soldier from the border rui1ian scenes Of that
bloody Territory. Flushed with the success Of |
the war for freedom there, and rendered daring,
reckless, and m Abolition monumanisc, BY the
scenes Of violence and blood through which he
passed, he believed the time at hand for the |
carrying df the Kansas war for freedom into the
heart Of the Southern States. He has met with |
the fate which he courted.
[Fzozn Tho Albany Evening Journal]
If the conspirators were guilty Of but half |
what is attributed to them, Tia 1ulaorsts did no
more tAaa thtsr duty in dea1iaq seiAa them a
4:rn1Y and sun.n.arRy as tA<y Aac r done.
The lealer III the conspiracy is ssated to be |
Capt brown, Of kans's ~ nosoristy; Ta's 81 f.et
wise ine1plcabte. Brown was one OF the VIC,
tins of The Border Rufdnn In.asion from Mi4-
souri. Hcwas robbed Of his property maltreated
his house was burned. aud two Of his sons we're
murdered in cold blood. It is not strange that
these wrongs kipdled in him thirst for revenge,
amounting 10 monomania. Broodiug orer them
he haa conceived the widest plans for repayiux