The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-08-11

gust 7th, appears n long and ,weii-written
communication by -. II. Panniu, Of Chat
ham, Va. purportlng TO give run
account or the John Brown Iald ana lts
article commits himself 10 palpaDle error
when he SAYS: ITO preserve a complete
and accurate knowledge OF g nlemotaule
transaction. / have prepareh the foii1Mu
Ing connected narrative OF the rdld-t iuli
and accurate account OF the whole trans
action, having. | believe, never yet DC"
published" $50
Probably no events OF past history nave
been more fully and accurately pII11ns,n's
to the world than those of John brown
raid and its sequel. long before Mr.. fah-
Mills article appeared. rs soon Is 80
facts were ascertained they were ha ., the
IN elaborate newspaper arucles ar,can
New York papers; ba r s,.1,,, We're We're so
significant and important that the n
lature Of Virginia appointed co..aadnahIe
who gathered all the evidence Az a con-
and made careful report; enIns NM ,-oid.
nected narrative Of this John brv H. pan.
far more full and accurate th.! ,ai ~ the
nlTs. This appears in the Jourha' ~ - and
Virginia Senate $780, Document 81, az" 80
IN The Southern Literary 1s ,re,rhans
April, lse2, pp. 2S-Ao, We rnncrt of the
whole matter that has yet appear ~ ~ ~
print. Moreover. we naIe IN ~" -2i
American CyciOpaedia, Vol: L. di,,,,dpIHl,abIe
735, a narrative 81 the rdiu - snlrit.
for its Impartiality and historic sptt,,lli
which Mr., Pannill might have consulteo
with ADVANTAGE as IL would nav Va 49,,
ed some Of the errors anu supPiiIu tic
OF the omissions Of his own - 10 ,r,,a
General Marcus J. wright, ~ I,,i 1bSji and
the facts in an admirable paiInP d,.rottve
I feel al liberty 10 say that the narratl1e
Of the John Brown raid and It's c0nselnel'ss
cess. given in the otudehts u.s. 1901
the United States Up. ''9-,vo - 80 ,,i,.es
on the most reliable authorizes, a'Ir liz ~,
all the facts which have materlal Ie.at'"'
u the true history Cf the whoi' ~, ~.
Mr. Pannll's narrative omits 'everai yery
important facts. such as the lvt..N,t ' -,
viz. That the first mUrder c"luull ecu ~
John Brown and his co-cOnspirators was
on the person Of an ignorant negro slave
the faithful Hayward sheppard VINO WaS
employed by the railroad COMPANY an,
fell into the hands Of the muFderers' anu
seeking TO escape was shot dead IN coiI
blood. that Fnntaine Backham, Mayor OF
Harpcr's Ferry. ard Captain George W.
ucr. formerly Of the United States army,
We're both slain by them mat lnau9rn7
Hyatt Charles sumner W iHiam -. ~
ard and salmon T. chase had an nr ,, w ~
formed Of tho intended outrage on II
ginia and not one Of them gave any Wdrn-
ing: and finally. and most important Oh
all. he omits ali statement 81 me .preche9'
proceedings and letters Of the Northern
people after the raid All these are mar
rated carefully I'm the students /. =.
ending with the following sentence: NO
state holding slaves had any guaranty
against n similar inr0ll Of murderers. as
sassins. and robbers from the Northern
States. upheld and urged on by the coun-
tcnauco ana sympathy Of q large part
Of the people of those Northern states"
In details Mr. Pannill Is equally inaccu-
rate. "Slelgo hammers dil not break
down the door Tho wielders Of sledge
hammers would have been shot down from
the inside, a heavy ladder was used as
a hattcrine-ram by twenty marines. The
true things I'm Mr. P.'s narrative are rot
true things and il is very doubtful Wheth-
er his new things are true things. He
probably construed literally what the ge-
NAL stuart adorned with some dramatic
features. n seems highly improbable that
an officer so Intellectual and competent as
Colonel Robert T.. lee. who arrived with
his force IA the evening ard had fully
twelve hours 70 talk with the 900 armed
men from Maryland and Virginia who had
assembled around the armory building
and who knew all about John Brown and
his band-who had for some time been
tenants II n farm III the neighbOrhood-
should have been as ignorant as 20 the
chief conspirators as Mr.. Pannill would
have us to believe.
But the corrections thus made all tend To
increase the adherence with which tho
proposition % erect q monument - John
Brown ought 10 inspire US. r. L. H.
NfloIIct H. 1891