Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1894-06-21

i~Out oT1he portentious and menaeing
cloud Of anti-slavery sentiment which
long had brooded with sullen diseon-
tent, a baleful meteor above the North,
John Brown sprang like terrific thun-
derbolt whose lurid glare illuminated
the continent with its devastating
flame, and whose reverberatiOns among
the splintered erags Of .Harper's Ferry
were repeated on a thousand battle
fields, from Gettysburg to the Gulf"
While this is somewhat eccentric IN
the way OF metaphor, it has the trade
mark of ingalls,, and generally would
pass for eloquence.
Another sentence from his address
recall:
''In any age or country, or under any
system, where abuses existed which
needed correction, he would have been
a reformer in politics and Puritan in
religion. He would have gone with
Huss to the stake or with Sidney to the
scaffold.
stood alone during this afternoon il
early April looking at this monument
/ to a great hero OF former generation.
was the only one of all our passengers
who even inquired about Brown, not tc
mention hunting up his monument. l
fancy that the sentimental will make it
a mecca in future years.
remembered, while looking at the
monument, little incident which hap
pened, as near as can recollect, in the
late summer of 1855. l think it was on
Browns last trip up from Osawatomie
through northern Kansas, southern
Nebraska and Iowa, thence to the East
and down into Virginia, where, it will
be remembered, he made his memora-
BILE stand in the December following. /
was in little town in Doniphan coun-
ty, known as Palermo, where the
Southern sentiment was pretty strong,
and where a plan was laid to capture
the old man, as report had reached
town that old John Brown and couple
of runaway niggers we're stealing North
dozen or fifteen miles back OF the
river and the town. All was excite
ment in few moments, and plan was
laid to capture the old abolitionist and
string him up. A scout came in, riding
recklessly, who reported the old man
and his two "niggers" asleep in a
school-house. They had tramped night
and day so far. and were all exhausted.
At this time, it should be remem-
bered, there was large standing re-
ward out for the capture OF Brown.
The governor OF Missouri offered re-
ward OF $4,000 for his capture and de-
livery, dead or alive, anywhere in the
state. and the United States govern.
ment-James Buchanan being presi-
dent at the time-offered $3.50.
Away went half dozen of the South
ern bloods, while the town waited in
suspense. l do not remember posi-
lively who were of the party, but think
it comprised, among others. a young
Richmond lawyer whose name was
Wood, and who wore his chestnut hair
hanging in mass of disordered ring
lets down his back, and who was re-
ferred to once by Sol Miller, the White
Cloud chief. as 'the man who flatters
himself that he looks like the portraits
Of our Savior"
Well, as l said, away rode the half
dozen Southern bloods, and the town
waited in suspense. Morning showed
up, but they did not. The forenoon be-
gan to wear away, and the patience Of
the people to wear out. Finally an
other party mounted and went in search
of the previous party: They found
them prisoners in the old school house,
into which they had been lured, bound,
locked up and left by Brown and his
two "niggers." The old man speeded
on to the North, and the next that wac
heard of him was when the country
woke up to hear the startling news OF
the attack on Harper's Ferry.
EARL MARBLE
Sometime ago was troubled With an attack
Of rhar1pnofispp d.