Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1861-03-02
Prom the Chicago Times Feb. 81.
THE OF RKDPATH J0Ek BROWN
JR.. FRED. DOUGLAS. cd NEGRO
ARMY TO BIZ rORMED-rARING

There are many facts which 20 to show that a
daring scheme is on foot among the free negro
population of the Northern States and the Cana
das; that, under the direction of such turbulent
~agitators as Redpath, Fred. Douglas, and young
John Brown, on whose shoulders has fallen most
fully the mantle of his fathers blood-thirsty fan
atheism, they ere proposing to take advantage Of
the FIRST outbreak Of war to consummate q raid
upon the South in which all the horrors contem-
plated by John Brown, sr., will find their full re-
a~lization. A few Of the facts leading to this con-
clusiOn have been already given by us, and others
have been furnished Us BY q gentleman whose
source of information is very near headquarters.
The facts already alluded to in this paper from
time to time are, some Of them, as follows: The
presence of Gerrit Smith and other ~agitators in
Canada, and the threatening language reported as
held by them there; the movements Of the noto-
rious Redpath, who has been fitting like a spirit
of evil all over the land for the past few months
now in Kansas, now in Canada, now on o mystic
rious voyage by sea, bound, in the opinion OF
some, for the coast OF Georgia or Florida, and
turning up unexpectedly in Hayti; John Brown,
Jr., among the negroes IN Canads, eating, living
anu bi6tpluR Will tucmJ uuu uoiuR ue ouOEto W
persuade them into some scheme the purport Of
which can only be guessed; letters have ap-
peared in various Northern papers intimating that
the negroes Of Canada were arming with q view TO
the invasion Of the South,-that they only awaited
the declaration of war 10 take up their line Of
march, and that they feared nothing so much as
compromise, and hope for nothing so much as Co
ercion. These, and other facts which have at diff.
erent times transpired, furnish ground for serious
apprehension.
That this apprehension is we'll founded, we
have reason to believe from additional information
received by US yesterday. Monmouth, Illinois. is
in this State, one Of the foci Of the eccentricity Of
Abolitionism-it is noted for the almost unanimi
ty Of it's radical sentiment, and matters which
even in Chicago, would be told and talked Of only
in whispers, are there discussed with impunity, il
being considered ell en- fdmile. We are informed
by a gentleman. a Democrat Of that city, that it Il
no secret there that such a movement as tha'
above intimated is fully determined on. In fact
many Of the details arc given with a circOmstan
tiality that leaves little room Tor doubt. A prom
inent Abolitionist of that place, who is in CORES
~pondence with The plOtters all over the country
says openly that an army Of 5000 Northern ne
groes, armed. equipped and well drilled. is read,
to march at q moments warning, and can be con
eentrated in forty-eight hours at any avaiiabl
point on the border; that they are in sympath
and concert with tie free negroes OF Canada. VII
will furnish several thousand more; that the me
who are at the bead OF this movement are. oster
sibly, Rsdpa.b. Fred Douglas. and John Brown
'Iir., bat that their ohjacts is known to and SYM.
tbized with BY prominent AbOliiionists Of Ii
North. and particularly Of the Northwest. in an
out Of Congress; that tho mission Of Rcdpath
Hayt 10 for the purpose Of obtaining a~ssistanC
ia his scheme irom Prerident Gearard, and SOUND
. ing the negroes Of that island with o view to raj
ing an army there; that the plan OF these gents
to strike the slave line, with their coiored cohorts
{ somewhere in the neighbOrhOOd Of the Mississippi
march in a body and directly for the Gull, tbroug
the portions Of the South mOst thiekly populate
Nth slaves. stir up instructions among these a