Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-02-29
VOL. XIX. NO. l3
The Hsrper's Ferry nquisition


The Chicago Press d Tribune says that
Senator Aason's Harper's Ferry Committee
is dragging its slow length along with no
certain results, SO far as the public can as.
certain. except the costs. Our readers will
remember that We long ago predicted the
utter failure of the iHuisition. The pro
gress Of the investiE alton has fully cou
frmed our opinion Scores of men have
been summoned from all parts of the couu-
try, whose uniform testimony has been that
the knowledge of Browns plot against
Virginia was confined to the handful of
men who there precipitated themselves up.
on destruction. All attempts to connect
the Republican party, or its prominent
members, with Browns crazy raid, have
been futile. The utmost efforts of the in
vestigators have failed to establish a con-
secutive history of Brown from the battle
of osawatomie to the fight in the engine
house OF the Virginia arsenal. Every thing
tends 10 the conviction that Brown kept
his own counsel, made no confdents ex-
cept among his Immediate followers, COW
cred his tracks carefully as be went along,
travelled under all the names in the diree-
tory, did enough business with fictitious
signatures 10 be entitled to fifty indict-
ments for forgery. and kept himself in
stnctively free from connection with the
Republican party The upshot Of Senator
Mason's movement will prove that while
Brown was engaged in fighting the Border
Rufians out of Kansas. he had frequent
interviews 18th members of that party,
and from some Of them perhaps received
material aid; but that when he determined
to invade Virginia, be cut off the whole
list of his Kansas acquaintances. aud went
forward absolutely on his own RESPONSE
bility. The Investigation will be failure
In SO far as the investigators hoped 10
damage their political opponents. That
chicken W i'll not fight
Where the Responsibility Belongs.
The Rockport Democrat, one of the
staunchest Popular Sovereignty papers in
the State, and edited by a man who dares
to speak the truth even at the risk of
shamiBg nameless parsonage, and whose
Democracy does not appear plisble enough
TO accommodate itself to sxpediency, thus
alludes to the organization of Congress by
the election Of Mr.. Pennington, and the
attempt of the Democrats to force Know
1 Nothing into the Speakers chair: as
The whole country will rejoice that the
loDg-protrscted aud bitter wrangle, in Co.'S
gress, has at last ended. For better than
two months, the Hall of the House Of Rep
/ resentatives, at the \ ational Capitol, has
been the scene of bitterness and confusion
unparalleled in the history of a free peo
pie. Fanaficisn, treason and disunion have
held carnival there, alike disgusting to
every conservative man in the nation, and
siekening TO the friends ef free institutions
throughout the civilized world. The blame
of this burning disgrace upon the Nation
al escutcheon, must rest where it properly
belongs. Southern disunionists, aided and
abetted by Western Democrats, lGod save
the mark) will have to give an account to
thinking and reading people for their trsa.
son to the hopes Of freedom. in the new
world. -
In The attempt to
/, force such Kno,o Nothing disunionisfsss Bo-
!, teller and Millson, of Virginia. MAY nard. OF
Tennessee, and Smith, of North Carolina.
into the Speakers chair, We see that West
ern mer, who were elected upon their
avowed hostility to the proscriptive tenets
Of Know Nothingism, lending themselves.
among whom We are truly sorry to be com
pelled to record the names of Niblack and
/ English, Of Indiana. How can they explain
, their votes for those Know Nothing, dis
union, slave code advocates, to the salts
faction of their thousands of German and
d Irish Union. loving gconstituentsf We douo
: their ingenuity and ability to do so. A.
- we'll may they attempt te make peopi'
|, believe white is black, and uiee uersa.
. The Democrat thus speaks of the elec
7 tion of Col. Forney as Clerk of the House
Colonel John W. Forney, the patriot, tn
sound Democrat, and accomplished Edito
: Of the Philadelphia Press. was elected o'
h the first ballot, Clerk of the House Of Rep
resentatives. This is just and fitting re
l. buke to the slaUe code disunionists Of tn
South, headed by James Buchanan, JEFF
sr Davis, Sildell, Gwin, Bright a Co.
20 1t will be seen that il does not altogethe
{. agree with the Sentinel, and other promi
d nent exponents of Popular Sovereignty Il
ID this section Of the State, as TO the characte
p of Mr.. Forney's Democracy.
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