Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-02-06
Palace of the Tuilleries, Dec. 81, 1859"
Mr.. Giddlngs and DR.. Howe before the In

Palace of the Tuilleres, Dec 81, 1859"
Mr.. GIddIngs and DIR. Howe before the In
vestgatIng Committee.
Hon. Joshua r. Giddings and Dr. S. G.
Howe appeared before the Harper's Ferry In
vestgating Committee, on Friday. Mr.. Gid
dings made the following statement, with ref
erence to the interview which he had in JEFF
ferson, Ohio, with John Brown, to which ref
ercnce was made in one of tue letters found in
Browns carpet bag;-
tFrom the New York Trbune.I
John Brown came there on Saturday after
noon, while gentlemen of the village were play
ing ball. He Mr. Giddings) was called aside
| from the play and introduced to Brown, and
consulted as TO the arrangements for lecture
next day. Brown did so the following after
noon, in church where Mr.. Giddings wor-
ships. After the lecture, Mr.. Giddings appeal
| ed to the audience, reciting the prosecutions
to which Brown had been subjected in Kansas,
the murder of his son, and the fact that he
then was an object of sympathy, having no
regular business on which to rely for support
satisfactory sum was contributed. Brown
accepted an invitation to tea, and remained
| three quarters of an hour afterward. These
were the only occasions when Mr.. Giddings
had seen him. Brown, in his lecture, spoke of
the duty of Christians to aid the slave in re.
! gaining the natural rights which God gave
him, and Of doing unto the slave as we would
have him do unto us. From the fact that
Brown had carried slaves from Missouri into
Canada, and his arguments in favor of aid to
| slaves to gain their liberty, and that he had no
established residence or business, Mr. Giddings
concluded Brown would aid slaves to escape,
| if opportunities offered
Mr.. Mason stated that John Brown had said
in letter that Mr. Giddings would endeavor
to form societies to raise funds, and asked an
explanation.
Mr.. GiddIngs answered that he was unable
to say what Brown thought; that John Brown,
Jr. called at his house one morning and said
his father was in want of money. He was lust
starting 10 deliver a lecture in Portage county,
and the following day had agreed to be in Ra-
VIENNA, where one .. p Brown, who had been
a senator, and was man of Influence lived
that he understood society existed there for
charitable purposes, such as assisting fugitive
slaves to escape; that in his hurry Mr.. Gid
dings mentioned this fact to John Brown, Jr,
and said he would ask 0. p Brown to assist
his father that, owing to indisposition, he re-
turned home, without going to Ravenna, and
was, therefore, unable to fulfill his promise.
Mr. Mason desired to know if Mr.. Gid
the institution of slavery.
Mr. Giddings replied they all referred to the
fundamental principles of human govern
ments, to the imprescriptible right of man to
the natural law or will of the Creator, as de-
fined by publicists and philosophers in Chris
tendon for the last two centuries. Those
teachings assert the rights of every human
soul to enjoy life, liberty, and happiness.
DIR. Howe of Boston declined to take the
oath to testify unless he was permitted to pro-
test against the whole proceedings. He pro.
tested against it-1st. Because the tribunal
was secret and inqusitorial I'd. Because it
was created for purposes beyond the legitimate
scope OF Legislative inquiry; Sd. Because it
usurps powers nowhere clearly delegated by
the federal constitution to either branch of
Congress; 4th. Because it is dangerous as a
precedent and liable to abuse in the opportun-
ity it gives for perversion of the great power
of the Union to the qualification of vindictive
party passions in various ways, to the peril of
private right and personal liberty, as by drag
ging citizens from their homes in any part of
the country, and rendering no man secure in
his own house; and 5th Because testimony
by deposition under the jurisdiction of the
respective states is fully adaquete He then
testified that he had known Brown during the
troubles in Kansas, and that he had sent him
money and arms they were raised by contr-
buttons made for the aid of the inhabitants of
Kansas; that he expected Brown would repe
armed invasion by armed resistance that
Brown had gained his entire confidence that
he was man of tried honesty as well as cour-
age; that after the troubles had ceased in Kan
saS, Brown continued to devote himself TO
advance the cause of practical anti-savery !;
that IN 1905 Forbes wrote to DIR. Howe claim
ing money for past services, informing him
that Brown had arms, &C., belonging to the
committee, and intended a hostile demonstra-
ton IN some slave state, and that he was in
competent to it, that unless the management
OF affairs was taken from Brown, and given to
him. Forbes, he would expose it; DIR. Howe
had never known Forbes that Senator Will
son, about the same time wrote to DIR. Howe,
stating that he had been told Brown intended
using arms and means belonging to the
committee for unlawful purposes, warning
Howe against Brown, and advising that the
arms be taken from him; that in conse.
sequence of such information, orders were
sent to John Brown to take the arms
and property of the committee, then stor.
ed i'll Iowa, into Kansas, and to be used
only in defence of Freedom there He
said he was not privy to the attack on Harper
Ferry, and knew nothing of any organization
or society in aid of Browns plans. He be.
llSNtu IIUWn u NC " CONSCIENTIOUS anu UOneSL
man, determined upon practical anti.savery,
but opposed to exciting Instruction or shed.
ding OF blood, except in selfdefence. He had
given him aid and comfort as such. Witness
being asked to state what he meant by spread
ing practical anti-slavery doctrines, Tor which
purpose contributions were made, illustrated it
by comparison with efforts to spread the Cos
pei among heather, etc.
James Redpath received notice, last week,
from the hands of Watson Freeman, Esq, U.
5. Marshal, to appear before the committee on
or before the 9th inst, today when, if he
failed to appear, measures would be taken to
enforce the order of the Senate. Mr.. Redpath
has accordingly decided to take leave of his
friends for a season, and disappoint the ex-
pectations of the committee.
The following is n copy Of an order to an
express man, received day or two since =
"Send me 10 gallons of your best gin for $40.
| want it for my mothers wake and funeral.
She is on her last breath. Sometimes she
knows us and sometimes she don't Send il
this evening precisely"