Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-12-03


Difference between their Exc.
cusion and John Browns.
The Czeceiand Herald tries to draw par
allel between the Fenian prisoners hanged
at Manchester, England, and JOHN Brown
who was hanged at Charlestown, Virginia.
for murder and for treason, and whose
soul, the Radical song says. is still march
ing OIL. The Irish, the Herald says, were
all in favor of Browns execution, and
hence that paper can see no particula:
reason why they should cry out against the
British Government for doing the same
thing to the Fenians.
The Herald does know, or if not it ought
| to know. there is wide and marked differ
ence between the two cases. The Fenians
are seeking to sever the connection be-
tween their own country and England
the latter being to them a foreign and an
alien Government-alien in religion and
alien in interest-which supports its power
in Ireland by the bayonets of its soldiers.
Ireland is a conquered province, held
against the consent of the people-the
laws governing her made by Parliament
in which her people has no fair representa-
tion. and makes that beautiful land but
q reservoir from which England can draw
supplies of men and money to fight her
battles.
JoNN Brown went to Kansas, and, while
there, was accused of murder. That he
passed over into Missouri and stole horses
and slaves he made public boast in the very
city in which the Herald is published. Nay
more, in that same city, he sold at public
auction, the horses and mules he had thus
become possessed of, making no attempt to
conceal the fact that he had taken them,
without leave, from their owners.
After this, he went to Canada, and there,
in secret conclave, composed of Negroes
and Whites, plotted to overthrow the Gov
ernment of the United States-selecting the
men who were to act as sProvisionalofficers
of the Republic after it was overthrown.
The man selected as Secretary of State
was Negro.
To accomplish his design, he went to the
valley of Virginia, one of the strongest
slave districts in the State, and there at
tempted to execute a servile insurrection.
With band he seized the National
Armory at Harpers Ferry, and while
holding it in his possession, fired upon
the people of the town, killing among
others, the Mayor of Harper's Ferry
while standing in his own door. Cap
tured. he was tried, condemned, and exc
cuted. On the day he was executed.
the Herald clothed its columns in mourn
ing, and at a meeting of the political
friends of that journal, on the same even
ing, the Radical member of Congress. rep.
resenting the district in which the Herald
is published, said that as the pearly gates
of Paradise opened that day to receive
the soul OF JOHN Brown, the purest spirit
passed in that had entered Heaven for the
last two thousand years.
We can see no parallel between the case
of JOHN Brown and the Fenians hanged at
Manchester, Eng, during the last week.
II, under any circumstances, capital pun
ishment is necessary to preserve society,
then it was rightfully exercised on JOHN
was no murder proven, no overt act COM
mitted. They but sought to rescue their
own, their native land, from tyranny that
oppressed the people and drove thousands
from its shores to find a new home beyond
the reach of English tyranny.
The Herald, differing from the rest of the
world. give the Irish race no credit for tai
ent. just before the JOHN BROWN raid in
Virginia, that paper, in its leading editorial
in substance, said that its editor believed
that seven-tenths of the Catholic foreigners
in the land are not as intelligent as the full
blooded Africans of Ohio and not as fitted
to vote, and believing this, we doubt not,
is the cause why that sheet can see no diff
ference between the hanging of JOHN
BROWN and the judicial murder of the Fe-
mans in England on Saturday week.