The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-02-27
From the Chicago Times. Feb. 21st.
THE DESIGNS OF REDPATH, JOHN BROWN,

NEGRO ARMY TO BE FORMED DARING SCHEME.
There are many facts which go to show that
daring scheme is on foot among the free negro pop
ulation of the Northern States and the Canadas:
that under the direction of such turbulent agiaors
as Redpath, Fred Douglas, and young John Brown,
on whose shoulders has fallen most fully the mantle
of his fathers blood-thirsty fanaticism, thew are
proposing to take advantage of the first outbreak
OF war to consummate raid upon the South in
which all the horrors contemplated by John Brown
ST., will find their full realization A few of the
facts leading to this conclusion have been already
given by us, and others have been furnished us
by gentleman whose source of information is yery
near headquarters. The facts already alluded to
III TINS paper from time to time are, some of them
as follows The presence Of Gerrit Smith and other
agtators in Canada, and the threatening language
reported as held by them there; the movements of
the notorious Redpath who has been fitting
ike spirit OF evil all over the land for the past
few months-now in Kansas, now in Canada now
on mysterious voyage by sea, bound, in the opin-
ION OF some, for the coast of Georgia or Florida,
and turning up unexpectedly in Hayti; John
Brown, Jr., among the negroes in Canada, eating,
living and sleeping with them, and using his efforts
TO persuade them into some scheme, the purport of
which could only be guessed; lie tiers have ap-
| peared in various Northern papers intmatng that
| the negroes of Canada were arming with view to
| tho invasion of the South-that they only awaited
the declaration of war to take up their line of
| march, and that they feared nothing so much as
| compromise, and hope for nothing much
ercoD. These, and other facts which have at diff
|
| apprehension.
| That this apprehension is we'll founded, we have
reason to believe from additional information re-
ceived by us yesterday. Monmouth, Illinois, is in
the Stats of the foc of the eccentrcity of Abb
olitionsm-i is noted for the almost unanimity of
| its radical sentiment and matters which, even in
Chicago, would be told and talked of only in whis-
| pers, there discussed with impunty, it being
considered all en- famile. We are informed By a
| gentleman, Democrat of that city, that it is no
secret there that such movement as that above in
tmated is fully determined on. In fact, many of
the details given with a circumstantiality that
leaves little room for doubt prominent Adolf
zionist of that place. who is in correspondence with
the plotters all the country, openly that
| an army OF 5000 Northern negroes, armed, equip
| ped and we'll drilled, is ready to march at mo-
ment's warning, and can be concentrated in forty
| eight hours at any available point the border;
that they are in sympathy and concert with the
| free negroes of Canada, who will furnish seve-
raj thousand more; that the men who are at the
head of this movement are, ostensibly, Red
path, Fred Douglas, and John Brown, Jr but
that their object is known to and sympathzed with
| by prominent Aboitionists of the North, and par
| ticulary of the Northwest, in and out of Con-
gress; that the mission of Redpath to Hayti is for
the purpose of obtaining assistance in his scheme
from President Gefrard, and sounding the negroes
of that island with a view to raising army there;
that the plan of these gents is to strike the slave
line, with their colored cohorts, somewhere in the
neighborhood of the Mississippi, march in body
and directly for the Gulf, through the portions o.
the South most thickly populated with slaves, stir
up instructions among those as they 60, force OIL
induce the slaves to join them, pillage, plumber
murder and burn, leaving their track as desolate az
the desert and black with ruip reaching the Gulf
they will veer to the Southwest, ravage the Gull
coast, pass through Texas, skirt along the Mexican
| coast, and make themselves home in Central
America, where they are prospec ting for the loca
| ton of their colony.