Weekly Trinity journal., 1859-11-19
Eoo,.hardiness of Mntlmen.

rho most crazy and reasonable attempt ever
.ao on this continent, was enacted at Harper's
rarrv on the Virginia side of the Potomac, on
i .bo nirht of Sunday, the 10th of October; an
:, which can only tend to widen the breach be-
d ,,,oon the North and South. A band of traitors
~ their country, led on, or rather headed by an
Il IA crazy-head named Brown, who it will be re-
membered rendered himself wlfully conspicuous
in the insurreetion at Ossawatamie, Kansas, du-
RING the recent season of blood there, stopped
the trains of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad at
Uarper's Ferry, on the day above mentioned, took
Il possesson of the IT, S. Arsenal, and on the fol-
\ ,owing morning seized the workmen when about
4 TO resume their labors The reader will be anX-
ious to know what object was to be attained by
the mischievous and devilsh outbreak, emanatng
from men who, according to the record, from
General to Corporal were from the Northern
States. The explanation is given in the answers
Of the crazy leader of the rebel gang. who was
cbatechised when he had sufficiently recovered
frsm his wound. which, Providentially, we trust
he will survive long enough to get his deserts
given by Brown:
Are you Captain Brown, of Kansas y
| am sometimes called so'
Are you Ossawatomie BrownY
Il tried to do my duty there
What was your present object?'
ITO free the slaves from bondage
"Were there any other persons, but those with
you now, connected with this movement
mo-
Did you expect aid from the North"
mo. There was no one connected with the
movement but those who came with me-
Did you expect to kill people in order to carry
your point"
, | did not wish to do so but you forced us to it.
1t will be seen that party of white men, pos
scssed of less sense than their leader, with the
negroes of one or two adjacent plantations. who
had been forced to join them, had concocted this
insane scheme to liberae the slaves of the entire
South, expecting as soon as the first blow was
struck, there would be general uprising of the
slaves, and that millions of observation-disclosures
.oud hasten to their assistance They took pos
session of the Z. S. Arsenal without the knowl-
edge of anybody the news spread, and in "a
hours one thousand military were concentrated
on the spot On the night of the day following
lac rebels were assailed and routed-iftecn Of
their number killed two of them sons of the
dcmcntcd Brown. Six citizens of Harpcr's Forty
were killed in the combat. Brown received nine
wounds, none of which are fatal. The insurgent
force was said to number 500 or G00 but at no
time were more than fifty engaged, including
negroes.
We have particular desire TO record the
names and nativity of these foohardy mon, with
their titles under the Provisional Government
which Brown proposed to institute. 1t should be
cbrisened the 'traitor roll -
General John Brown, Commander-n chief
woUnded, but will recover Captain Oliver
Brown, dead; Captain Watson Brown, dead ;
Captain John kiege, OF Ohio, raised i'm Virginia.
dead Captain Aaron G. Stephens. of Connecti-
cut, wounded badly-has three balls in his body
and cannot possibly recover; Lieutenant Edwin
Noppie, of Iowa, unhurt Lieutenant Albert
lIazlctt, of Pennsy syvana, dead Lieutenant Jcr-
fmiah Anderson, Of Indiana, dead Lieutenant
Wm. Leman, of Maine, dead Captain John f.
Cook, of Connecticut, escaped privates Stewart
REayiof, Of Canada, dead Charles p Todd, of
Maine, dead William Thompson. of Nav York,
.Geql Dolph Thompson, Of New York dead
The whole affair suggests serious reflections.
SThe leader, driven from Kansas, settled in Ma
syland, and there attempted IL crime which should
be punished at the gallows. The position of the
slr9ivors is an unenviable one ; they will be ar
|raigned in the State of Virginia for the crime of
murder, and before the chief tribunal of the ma
ton for treason, The punishment should be such
Jas to forever awe the fanatics of the Smith, Phil
u ps and Garrison school. They should be dealt
with without mercy. The admirably modelled
Constitution of the renegades should be read.
With it we close
" The preamble sets forth that slavery is none
other than the most barbarous, unprov oked and
|unustiliable war Of one portion of its citizens
upon another portion, the only conditions of
which are, perpetual imprisonment and hopeless
Iservitudp, or absolute eXterminaton in utter
disregard and violation of those eternal and self
evident truths set forth in our Declaration of
Independence. Under this Constitution, the
Provisional Government was to be divided into
three branches, Legislative, Executive and Judi
|cal--the former represented by House of Rep
resentatiyes composed of not less than five or
|nore than ten members, to remain in Office for
three years, The other branches were modelled
after our own constitution. Then followed some
twenty-six miscellaneous articles"