Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1860-04-02


EXPLANATIONS OF JOHN BROWN, JR., AT AsHTABULA.
A meeting was held few days since, at Ashtabula
Ohio at which John Brown, Jr., and brother OF Edwin
COppc were present. Brown made a speech in refer
ence to the fugtyes from Harper's Ferry. lie said:
Merriam, CUppic and owen Brown were at the time
Of the outbreak the Ferry place called the Ken
nedy Farm hye miles distant, in the State OF Maryland
Whatever then may have been their object purposes
they that time engaged in other business, not in
Virginia, but in Maryland Virginia the
track of these fugtyes had pursued young Coppc to
the State OF lowa-to the home o: his mother, Qua
keress, in the neghbOrhoOd OF Quakers, where among
non-res,taut be found no rest for the sole of his foot
Under the treaty stpuatous between Canada and the
United States he learned that the GOvernOrGenera of
those Provinces would be required 70 surrender him to
Virginia. Where then should he 60 Had he been en-
gagged in the affair at Harper Ferry, he had done moth
ing which any of would have dsapproved had he
gone there behalf Of any friend ours either father
mother husband wife, brother sister He had come
70 Ohio-to Asbtabula cOunty-where he had resolved
sell his life dearly possible, in the of at
tempt to arrest him. 81 do not" said Mr. b.. wish
that our friends should put themselves in jeopardy
We may, perhaps is best that We should
stand alone.
81 am not, Mr. Chairman. weak enough to think that
we cannot be arrested by State Federal power We
may be overpowered or taken but whether sink
SWIM survive or perish" have resolved to fall or
flourish together. have said that may stand alone
No let Us not forget that "She with the Right is
jorty anywhere"
ANorHER-IxvAsIoS THREATENED
James Rodpath WHOM mixed up with Old Brown
in every thing except danger, also made speech, in
which he predicted another raid which authorizes to
predict another hanging He said:
"Aaron d. Stevens is dead His brave life was chok-
ed out Of him for presumng without asking Senator Ma
sons permission to believe in the Declaration Of indie
pendence and thus beying for still further daring, TO
use his Captains words Ito put that thing through"
or in the words of God as rendered by Isaiah, for at
tempting to proclaim Liberty throughout all the land
unto all the inhabitants thereof Many OF you knew
him; shall he die in vain and unavenged?
'To those of you who friends of the saye-driver
have nothing'to say-my duty is with men whose
hearts large to be sufocated by the dust raised
by party mounebanks and whose gaze IS too steady to
be dazzed by the glare of the false and fatal spendor
OF the despots court. To those Of you who are ready
to initiate Stevens this only need be said BE prepar
ed; bide your tme ere long you will be called For
tell you men of Ashtubua that the stranging OF John
Brown was not the death of this cause and that, ere
many moons revolve the slave will be again offered
Six months before the blow at Harpers Ferry,
stated that it would be made and even indicated by
whom and again. give the slave driver solemn warn
ing TO set his house in ORDER for his doom Is pronounc
ed-'he shall die and not live Money will be needed
to execute these plans of liberation. Those ofyou who
approve it must aid it by your money
DOUGLAS DEMOCRATIC EDITOR ALSO SPEAKS.
Deacon Gray, Of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, who had
report the meeting for his paper, loudly call
ed for. He arose and said
He could not believe after the courtesy he had met in
Jefferson, that this audience called him out for the pur
pose Of kissing him down (Cries of no no. 90 on, &c)
If they could his heart they would know that he
not so far in feeling from any Of them, as they might
think He had nothing to object to in the remarks of
John Brown, or in the quaint odd speech OF Owen and
although he could not ndorse the position OF Mr. Red
path, he had quarrel with him. He would not make
speech but ask TO be let off by telling story They
might know that there were two araysl. W. Gray, of
the Pandealer and himself Deacon Gray as people
called him. Laughter. He tthe speaker was once
Deacon Of the Presbyterian Church at Pitsburg. One
day he negro lmplng along and white man fol.
lowing with a drawn revolver in his hand Now, said
the speaker mind you I'm not talking of my theories
but practice, lLaughterl This negro was fugitive