New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-13

TIE HIRPERs FERRY INVESTIGATION lRD jon
Browns PLAss.-Borsce White OF me GaEeg
Press end Tribune, who was summoned TO Washms
ton TO testify before the Senate Committee Of lnvesu
paticn into John Browns sfsirs, presents the IoDcW
ing conclusions from bis observations and nysstYar
tons:
/. That this Government lie not administered on ~S
nomcal principles. This morning Senator MAJ
banded me an order on the Secretary OF the 5eaa
for two hundred and ten dollsrs-in return Tor WIG
be has twenty pages of foolscsp notolng Ten sos
equally valuable rubbish Richard Raelf eoliared ovs
six hundred dosrs, Federal currency. Angmtq
Wattles took about three hundred and hfty soilan
mileage; Amy like amount; and 80 It goes Inc ~
yesgation will not cost ess than one hundred thod
sand dollars when the bills all footed and Me nee
resu ia will not be worth enc hundred red cents.
H. That the Committee will not be ready 10 rspon
before the Presidential elecaon. All the ey'denoc
tai en- thus fer washes the Republican party ELAN "a
John Brown and HaIpers Ferry. This is not the en-
tertainment TO which the Investigators invited th"ra
selves. They will manage to staye oil the printing OF
TIE testimony on ore plea or another, t next WINTER;
They will pretend that important witnesses are stiD
wanting. They viii not give the country ghnps, o.
their report this They will not coatriouse hA+
eectonse ring document to the Republican ssde 4
the Court understsnd herself"
pose was to get together four or i've hHa0fse
slayes put Iiies into the hands Of the more inel-
ligent and pixies into those of the remainder,
and iDtrerch himself in the mountains. IN
have maintained himself fer thirty days agailG
any force which could have been sent sgsas
him. TIE news Of the resurrection would h,i
spread ike wildfre North and South i wqn
have pens traied through the thick dsrkSea
which envelopes the slave population. II wdald
have carried understandable panic 10 every
Southern PLANTATION and freGde. IL wouio
have cent him reeuforcements from hundreo OF
negro quarters. When troops were sent Nou1
70 cut off his retreat 10 Canada ne " a.
have marched South His presence in Tennessee I'd
the Caroliuas would have created pandeuom0 n
whose confusion snd terror he expected thai SIS by
would somehow, in some underlined way have On az
II he Brown should happen to lose bis life m TN mr.
MOL that would be of the least possible conseqe oe
He would trust 20 the elements brought into cont "
work out the problem by natural laws. am mo- IRE
pared to say that the result would have dsspD y
his expectations If he had got away from Be e
Ferry with FIVE hundred well-armed negroes,
movement was precip'sted at least a week eeio
time be had chosen. Various theories are adsSn
account for this fatality, bat the most int . .
one lie that Of bis men deserted the day be-, -
bow was struck and hat Brown had reason %
leve he intended 10 betray him. Another ther,
that he and his men were suspected by the citizens
Harpers Ferry and that If they had remained jnac
anotl er dsy they )uld have been arrested. Eet-
tain that something mpened him Ia strike bSfor 10
had plsoed himself en- rapport with the elavss No
met his fate with the calmness of who WI cs1-
scious that he had ruined no else by his &c n
was man whe travelled on his own muscle.
lie buttoned his coat be covered the whole resorpea3
for his deeds. And for this reason Senator Mac
Committee viii catch nothing though they hsh hh Hs
crack Of COON.