Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1859-10-28

We htisfy alluded tlss week % the attempt
od iosurreceon, by II whites and 5 negroes, at
Harper's Ferry We this week devote large
portion Of eur paper to the details iu relation
to this afAir. These few mad fanatics, led on
by the insane John Brown, Of Ossowa iamie,
Kansas, memory, attempted to get up an 10
surrection. and dearly have they paid for their
attempted treason a. ainst their country. Brown
himself was verg severely wounded, one Of
his sons killed, aud another has since died of
bis wounds. Seventeen we're killed and woun
ded, two taken prisoners, and 3 sscsped-a
terrible, but just resribntion for the crime of
treason and murder, of which they we're guilty.
Acts of this kind viii always be condemned by
the people of every sec,ion of the Union
North and South.
We are sorry to see determination eyince1
By number Of the Locotoco press 20 blame
the tragedy upon the opposition party. This
is all false. N6 party condemns this affair,
aud all such, more than DO the opposition OF
the North. They oppose the extension Of
slavery into cur free territories from principle,
but they totally oppose aEy inteIfereacs With
il where it now exists 1t it is an evil, as the
South says it is, let them get rid Of M 10 their
own way, as best they can. We of the North
oppose slavery in the free States and Tergito-
ries, because it leads on to just such affairs as
this and other evils We have not yet seen an
A,uerisan or Republican paper bus condemns
this Whole affair in the strongest terms. We
eupy the following extracts from the Baltimore
.dmeficdn aud the Richmond Waig, ono pub
lished n Virginia, where the occurrence took
place, and both Southern paptrs 1t siIl be
seen that they ridicale the idea that the Re-
publican party should be blamed with this out
rage, by score of crazy faratics, probably in
cited to it BY few Abolitionists like GiddinRs,
Gerrit Smith aud Others, wbo are amoue the
greatest enemies the Republican party ever
had. Ii any party is to blame, it is the Loco
foco party. If they had not repealed the Mis-
souri, Compromise; if it they had allowed the
people of Kansas to make their owu laws, and
govern themselves and if they had not allow.
ed tie border ruffaus to coma into Kansas, and
murder her citizens, tanlong the lumber two
of Old Browns sons this affair would not
have happeuol:
The Baltimore .fmer,can says:
''But it is perfectly idle, to say the least. to
turn such an event into political capital. No
party would dream Of endorsing these or SINH
lar atrocities; aud 1t is poor and unworthy
class Of tactics that wonld seek 10 fasten the
responsibility anywhere else than uron the
misguided actors themselves. Whstever NAV
be the tendency Of their avowed principles, no
organization, worthy of the uame, has ever
counseiled violent resistance Of the law in
slave territory. There are few demen.ed
persons scattered over the Northern States--so
few shat we mght almost enumera,e them
G-rrii Smith, Fred Douglass, Melien, if he is
sill alive, and two or three more But thore
Is no party Of respectable dimensions that has
plsnk in is platform uron Hhioh the late mao
foray could be iasti6ed''
The Richmond Rhig says:
We are grati6ed to observe, as we antici-
patcd would be the case, that, withouta solita.
.ry exception SO tar, the Northern press con-
demns the affair IN as becoming and Indignant
atone as we of the South Aud this Groves 10
Ds bat these Abolition inceodiaries aud iuya-
ders OF onr domestic peace will receive no
sympathy or coGaieusnoe 10 the North, except
from the handful of Garrison Abol:tionists
who have aisays infested that region OF the
Union.''
The insurrection was originated BY C.pt.
Brown, who ha,. acquired notoriety in the
scenes of violence in Kansas. More than /.
year ego, be visited Harper's Ferry in company
with two sons, under the assumed name of
Smith. After surveying the country round
about he left, but in few months reappoare3
and rented farm abont four miles Distant
His chief aid was john L. Cook, who had rais-
ded near TIE Ferry for some years, and who
had been an acquaintance of Drowu's in Kan
sas. These men were the only whites connect
cd With tue insurrection that had been seen
ABOUT the place previous to the occurrence.
The rest were supposed to be brought from
distance. The first active movement in the
lnsurrection was made about halt. past 10 on
Sunday night. The watchman on the Ferry
was seized, and carried to the Armorv. and
imprisoned, bur in the morning was released
The TatchmaD who vas to relieve him. WAS
ssugbi, but escaped The next appearance Of