The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-01-27
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oasssripstoa prtcs 81 per AMMAN In advaac,
old Mrs. JeAn Drevn.
These Who aSgusd 1tom her murderous =.
Of ~ Qassas Easlhh, aud her incapaeitv i
wrtss Asr own Aame leeihsy, bosh which fact
were pretty clearly ascertainsd q Char,es
town, that ~ old woman wss aluost en-
air'ey insesatA were very much deceived
LOOK WAT hns letter she writes to Mas,
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seS - 1,sssissssat.s,ons ,aoa: in the coaasr,
~ @sdiuI Of small book, aaanely. that
h,sA vsts sls sWss Of Two mes. Wso.: s SSd.ss
Nho wivsel he bnrned to ashes to escape detection
sss 8 q ssrssss to NJ sast sassr, msn
s9osse 80 tass lavsaaive senius 6rea b, frenzy
ess I'd 81 aoat false sss.Sm.ass TO .re,est
ssas o. re ms@o.n Of the life Of one whose infu-
S.ts tass .. otners IN the scale Of iibsIty
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H...A zls s:. jazz LSs1; 4. ESQ., A'' ANN ssows.
OF course old Mrs. BRown did not write
this lstter. Whether she can read it since i,
has osen not only written for her, bat pub
lished In choice type, 10 another and wholly
'unimportant matter. The design is obvious
~ TO keep mp the impression that old JOHN
BROWN was saint. and that if he murdered
and fobsed, II was all for the glory of Gop.-
The Arst question that presents itself is. how
could old Mrs. BRowx, at North Eiba, in the
state Of New York, know what Captain
BHowH did on Pottawatomie in the Territory
Of Kansasl
NJ. BAows, as his widow modestIy desig.
mover been charged. 80 far as we know. with
murdering two white women and burning
their bodies. II there has been such a charge |
against him, 1t doubtless originated with some |
Of his associates, who made it for the purpose |
OF saddifng false accusation upon the pro. |
slavery party. 1t would be very easy to prove.
either that no women were murdered or that |
JOIN BROWN was somewhere else when il |
took plaza and thence to infer that ina.-
much - he had been slandered in one in |
stance he might possibly have been 40 in |
others Such process is perfectly in keep.
ing with the forgeries published in the
1r'6sss during the war in Kansas, and while
Brown was prisoner Mt Charlestown.-
But 1t Will not answer before the tribunal of
the worio, how well soever 1t may succeed he.
lore an Abolition audience. who have but ono
mind, ana that inaccessible to the platnos, !
.v'dencs The true charge against JOHN
BRowH 10. that he murdered, in cold blood
I've ~es-not scomen-whom he and his co..
ook ont OF their beds during the nirbt Of
certain day In May, 1856. 1t is further chavez
hat this Internal deed inaugurated the Rai.
I BLOOD IN Kansas, having been the f%st ~
nat long series OF atrocities, the recolIe. !
u which sickens the soul Of any m.
AooIiuenist. 1t 10 alleged that -; NV ar
proved BY number of wit An ne |
srpstrated under tb' a;-.ot,on -. n -" 'e oeen
sROwH. II not bv' % odd JOHN |
handler OFF,. dis own hand he icing COM |
inc. .eassassins, and person ally rrescri-
I'D directing their operati' ms. The verv
xcuse ct up for Old Brown 'oy his abolition
ldmirers, and actually put Aown in print in
he memoir OF MS life and :.cts, compiled from
he columns OF the abolition newspapers,
proves IT, BROWN 10 there alleged to have
been stimulated to the preparation of this
massacre. Dy ootrag'Ss offered to certain mem
'ers OF his family No attempt is matte to
leny MS guii~Ihe Lawrence (Kansas) Her.
I'd, An abolitioA sheet, says it il not doubted
~ living soul In that Territory-but
his 10 the apology offered for him.
Vow. 1t 10 we'll known to every body who
Enows anything about the matter at all, that
not . hair Of tho head of any of JOHN BRowS,.
lamily Wa touched, until at least August,
1856 whereas these murders were perpetrated
in May Of that year. The effect, therefore,
was represented by these very truth telling
patrjots a. preceding the cause by about three
months. There was. in fact, no excuse for
hese crimes, IL crime can ever be excused or
wen palliated. Brown could not even allege
he plea OF expediency or necessity. The men
we're entirely undistinguished, and had it not
n their power TO annoy BROwN or in auy
way to interfere with his designs. It is true
hat one Of them had been summoned to serve
N the next Grand Jury. and might have been
inspected of design 70 present him and his |
ang to the Grand Jury; but that circum-
lance could have given him little annoyance,
or the whole tenor Of his life proves him to
ave had small respect for law, and little fear
4 it, o1aCers. The whole proceeding was that
4 . rudaan who murdered, because he had the |
'ower to do 20 with impunity, men who .
hought differently from himself, with regard
o . political question.
We are disposed to think Mrs. Marry {
sRowH. CHAT 10 the way she spelt her name
t Oharisstswn, writing the "BRows" di.
sctly uhder the "Mar,y"-we congratulate her {
'pon The Improvement in her photography, due. t
70 doubt "a the jealous instructions of the 8
'ost' aad philosophers that congregats at the .
Tissss ofnce) we arc disposed, We say. to +
hihk that Mrs. Marry DRowA has not been in | p
he habit of weighing testimony IN criminal, il