New-York tribune., 1878-02-02

/. said TO- 25o) 10 have exhibited to Mr. Smith pro-
visona government would be necessary IN tie sue
cesful result OF the plan, OF the o'her the oeet
or both plans being the same, commonwealth OF rted
men The rs plan having been exchanged for the last
the time and place of the exchange material Wssi
made in January. of 1858, at the house OF Douglass
yhe1e the PAPER was written out" tp 239) Doug
laes says o. 255 Thai lie nothing OF the change TIL
he learned it at Chambersburg in the Fall Of 1859 Was
1T changed in the house OF Gerrt Smith, at Peterboro, In
February 1881 That the paper" was produced there
m 2S9J evidence that the plan changed there
for the paper has been shown, must be presumed
to have agreed well with the old plan with the new
But the testimony OF Douglass is positive that ii related
only TO the old plan. Having been written our at his
house. he must have known its details, less than MI
Smith at whose house IL was produced p 239)' But
Douglass, though familiar with "the paper" did not
know Of tho new plan til informed OF it at Chambers
burg nearly years aferwald (p 255 Tins very pa
per said (p 2iO to have been laid before seas ana
Howe Boston, and they swear that they knew Only OF
the Old plan tp. 255 The conversation between Smith
and sanbOrn quoted page $40. with reference to the
consultation between Brown and smlth, SanboTn ana
Morton. in Mortons room Of Cert smiths house, al
PeerbOro, i'll February of 1885, bears intrinsic evidence
tbSyc referred to ne old pan "You see how it IT,"
says Mr. smith, old friend has made up his mind to
nan to re 70 the mountains and invite the slaves
10 stand their freedom, to plan 10 invade Viz
gnia. Each plan involved the same dangers and each
wOud be attended by The clash OF arms That the an
guaee imports that smith there first learned Of tins de
Termination Of Brown, does not initiate against but
which he specified, he rerained from informing
Smith of the full particulars OF his plans The plan TO
fee to tle mountains and with escaped saves TO Win
stanG any effort 10 recapturc them, was to engage IN
danger efectuay as 10 move on iarpers Ferry, and
Browns life would he equally impcrlcd in both cases
Therefore Smiths words 1--WE cannot give him up
10 die alone; We must stand by him. cannot be appled
also to the old Of fleeing 10 the mountains bn ms
dollars fer him: yon must lay the before your
friends i'll Massachusetts and see II they viii do The
old Alor Il fnfTI la aW
one The new plan OF invasion would require thousands
OF dollars, where the old plan OF escape 70 lht noun
dscosrs that st0nd 10y Brown, to save his life by IN
surfing hs success he thinks 1t necessary To- I'iSe Cniy
that thinking, not OF an armed nvasion, but Of
was al TINS time In the fu enjoyment OF his strong pac
teal sense Eat 10 lmute TO him tue opinion inat an
cuted with military chest Of but few hundred dollars,
would be to charge lm with insanity greater thaH lhaI
which subsequently bcfcll him.
JOHN Browns TME>Ds.
sanborn when at PeteIboro did not know tha. Brown
had eXohang gcd his old Pan for the Ec was to
lay the case before his Massachusetts friends" p 2iO
He returned Boston and laid the matter before his
friends" Gd). These friends were SteaTns, Howe and
Parker. Parker dead, and stearps and Howe swore
that they knew nothing Of the plan (p 253) and to
their oahs the biographer gives credence i'll his state
ment at O.. 242 that "ony two on three men knew OF
Browns intention enter the Slave states at Hsrpers
Ferry" Sanborn, Morton and Ger1t Smith. GerTlt
Smith u. 25D: :" | lad not myself the snshltst
knowledge or ntmation Of Browns intended invasion
of Harpers Ferry" Tnen of the friends OF John Brown,
Gerrit Smith, stearns Howe Douglass, sanborn and
Morton all but the last proved by the biography
not to have known, at Pcterb0To. in February ls5s,
when it is charged John Brown communicated 10 Mr.
Smith, his exchange OF his old plan for the new one.
that John Brown had determined upon any such
course. Yet more When Brown was at Chambers
burg in tue Autumn Of 1869, he requested Frederick
Douglass his mos. intimate friend TO have an interview
with hlm there Cp 255l. Z" had IT, says Douglass IL.
255 and in that interview lie informed e that he had
determined upon that INVASION instead OF carrying out
his old plan Of going into the mountains" Frederick
Douglass John Browne trusted Douglass. called hy him
frOm Rochester to Cham5rrsbuIg u be toid i-at ne
had adopted new pan-nohiug more. Inc inieGtnce % Is
rresistibe that Brown then tor the INST lme had deter
mined upon the change and sut Tor Douglass 10 iei @
of H. and through him ms friends IN The Moth II
changed then GeIr Smith c0uld not have known Of the
change PcferhorO III the Spring OF le3- ana Ms b"k-
raplcr does not charge mat ne learned IL Whlu @
might turn from hlin tiOWp as visionary HHu
Gus man" NOW Browns wish was 20 retain MI Smths
Friendship and profit by his assistance He knew ms
abnorrcuoe Of violence and boodshed, ana therefore
would not inform HIM Of tie particulars, even 0 the od
possible bioodshcd should turn him from him"
1t is prcpostcrous therefore TO suppose ihat the
OF comparatively innoouous plan ahd one t!'l ne
knew 1i' III % :, H. cioe a nlan saiuraod win
blood and horror 80 that the assertion OF John Brown
OF his Old Plan Mr.. Smith, j. the equivalent Of his
es.erting hat Mr. smith never at any knew Of the
on is 81 Gerif sti doubt whether any person III tue
whole North knew any hing o. Bl9wns & nen,iGa; ana
friends the North outside OF his own family knew VI
WHIT now becomes OF sanborn and Morioni
FrstThey Oyerborne by smith. Douglass, steans
Howe, and lastly by John Brown himself
Secondly" The paper" produced al Peterboro III Feb
ruary OF is5s is shown by Douglass M 300, smith o.
254 Howe and Searns ( 255l to have referred to The
TR%diyrhe conversation between Smith and sanhorn
% 24O appropriate to the old plan aud not 10 the
new ana must have referred by sanhon himself 10
old plan for lie communicated the plan spoken ot 10
SeaTns Boston who swear that they never
heard OF any other than the old plan p 23?h IN whcn
they are confirmed by he bogralers r. AZ statement
that the plan was known TO but sanDOih ana Morton
"' FourtLIv-sanborn nor Morton could have possibly
known al PetcrborO in February, lS5S Oi iuonded
invasion Of HarpeI's Ferry, first determined upon py
JOHN Brown long afterwards at ChaInheTspurg
The biography says that they fed. Does this fnrnsh
proof that tnry thought themselves implicated Stearns
Howe aud Douglass fled aud they are not even charged
with completely Fearful sOus would Ace conscOu. only
OF The od plan pt iealnf thn5 & !e eyare oD me ,5e
But If an inference OF their conscious siit OF
p 243l the fact recorded on tne same Page lat onr
Smith did not flee, but staid at home conspicuous
object of attack" proves AS concusivey his CONSCIOUS
Innocence.
THE THEORY AND THE FACTS.
Nov, II Is an accepted rule. that theory to be es-
tabshed must not only be adapted 10 the ac5 III the
case facts in the and every one Of thcm
must xc!ude the possibility OF every other theory Here
arc tso plans The first, Smith Gays that ne knew OF
the second he AYERS his ignorance He was MOrbldIy
averse TO boodshed. He Mortified by invasion, and
fell into insanity at the news. He deprecates being
a. 249) again drawn into the subject which once over
threw his reason and for the sufficient cause that It's
discussion he feared would renew his former malady.
and feared the poignanty that he knew that
although innocent yet censorous public would az his
boraplcr has, cOnfond his knowledge OF the Old plan
with completely IN the new one His pathetic prayer
(p 2l7l that the history Of the transaction might be