The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-01-07

Mrs STEPHENs TO Victor HUGo.-Our
| readers are aware that Mrs. Ann S Stephens.
| of New York, has written a spirited reply TO
Victor Hugo's defence Of Old Brown, The
| following is an extract:
Virginia, sovereign State, has main tanned
| her authority. John Brown is dead. PROVEN
guilty of treason-condemned for atrocious
murders--he has atonad for these crimes on
| the scaitold. 1t is impossible for man 10
stand upon the verge OF eternity, into which
| he must be launched by a violent DEATH with
ont filling every good heart with grief and
compassion; but when he is braVe-when his
path of blood has been lighted by the lurid
torch OF fanaicism or insanity-such minds
as yours, afii uent, earnest and poeical may he
expected TO close his crimes in white garments,
and forgetting the murderer in the brave man.
sing pieans to the martyr OF vivid imagina ion
only.
am of a sex and of a nature to whom these
feelings are kindred. cannot think OF old John
Brown upon the scatiold without a shudder
through all my being. 1 cannot think of IA
man made in the image OF his God, suffering
an ignominiCus death, without thrills of pain.
But find ii impossible to fix my mind on the
scaffold of this OLD man. 1t goes back to his
victims at Harper's Ferry-to the women
made widows by the out tbreak of single morn
ing--to the orphans, who had never wronged
him. SO cruelty bereaved by his crimes. / see
the two sons who bIindiy followed his lead
fall artyrs to his rebeliious spirit.
l look beyond all this. far away into the
beautiful South, and instead of an cid man on
the gallows l see thousands of my own cuun-
trywOnen, gentle, good aid lovely, given up a
prey to wild instruction see those rder-
Gus pixies, manufactured with such crnel fore
thought, piefcin their bosoms-l hear the
cries Of children calling for mothers who Will
never answer them again-i seq proud, strong
men struggling against the brute strength OF
their own household servants. This picture
strikes my compassion dumb, and can only
cover my face and pray God to have mercy on
the old mans soul
John Brown was tried, condemned, and exc
cuted as traitor--a guard of American citi-
zens ST cd around the scaffold. sad at heart
but steady in their devotion TO the laws. The
Legislature of a great Common wealth sat- de-
liberia tely, after his sentence and pronounced
il lust. The Federal Union, in which thirty
millions of souls throb, stood by IN solemn si-
lence while the Treason of this man was expi-
ated.
THE RE-iNrERnENr OF CoPPIR.-The re-
mains Of Edwin Coppie, one OF the Harpsr's
Ferry insurgents, were disinterred on Mon
day the Goth uli., from the burying- ground
had been quietly buried by bis Quaker rela-
tiyes. for a more imposing burial by his SYM
rs thixers In the ghborhOod, on Friday the
5Oth nit. The body was placed in the hands Of
experienced persons to prepare 1t for the oc-
casion. The wooden coffin from Virginia was
renlaced by a handsome metallic one, the body
being robed in white flannel, and taken to the
Town Hall in salem, where, OF Friday, it was
exposed to view for four hours Ihe hall ac-
commoda ting six hundred, was filled, and then
some four thousand persons, was esumated ,
passed through the room TO view the corpse,
several ladies, on seeing the blackened face.
bursting in TO tears. monument u TO bo erect.
ed 70 the memory Of tho deceased
The bark Greyhou nd which was ashore on
nn>f fa. & Il has n riV VeA Savannah.