The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-20
Bill Hrp on th8 MOrnnOn8 Six NOtabI8 GarOIinian8
He Regards Them as Set of Dangerous and Undesir-
able Tramns
able Tramps.

Fanatics and trampS have their nuf-
sery in New England. We see that the
bones of the seven lieutenants of old
John Brown have recently been removed
to North Elba and are to be reburied with
honors, and that Mckinley was invi-
ted. That shows the animus of that peo
pie. They still make a demigod of that
old fool John Brown, whom Giddings
and Beecher and Garrison made a
cat's-paw of TO incae the slaves of Vir-
ginia to insurrection and TO provoke
them to murder and arson and rape.
They furnished him with $500 in gold
and all the rifles and ammunition he
wanted, and so he took up his residence
near Harperis Ferry and for two years
lived there ami planned his bloody
and reasonable scheme. Fred Douglas
visited him there and advised him
to wait for the fruit was not ripe. But
the old fanatic believed the Lord was
with him and wouldn't wait any longer,
and so one dark night he and his lit
tie band of twenty-five deluded fol
lowers surprised and oyerpowered the
guards and took the arsenel and then
calmly awaited the uprising of the
negroes. But the negroes would not
rise Most of them We're attached to
their masters and their families and
would not join the traitors. They soon
came to grief. John Brown was wounded
his son was killed and most of his fol-
lowers. For forty long years the graves
of seven of them have been mmolested,
but John Browns soul, they say, keeps
marching on and so it does seem to,
with the second and third generations
of those who have hated us SO long and
so bitterly. They sent Brown to Kan
sas during the dark and bloody days
and there he and his followers, among
other outrages, called five leading South
erners from their beds one dark night
and assassinated them. Brown said it
was Gods will. For twelve years he
never lost sight of his chief aim, which
was to start an insurrection in Virginia
and let it spread all over the South,
until every Shareholder was murdered
And this is what the North made a
martyr and a demigod of him for.
Our own Robert K. Lee, n United
States army officer, officiated at his
capture and trial. jefferson Davis and
John NJ. Mason, of the United States
Senate, were appointed committee to
make report upon the invasion and de-
clared II of no significance except as
showing the animus Of the North toward
the South.
A friend writes me who wishes to
know where he can get a true history
of John Brown and his Virginia raid and
execution. Nowhere! No Southern man
has written his history. Three have
been written from a Northern standpoint
by enemies of the South. The faifest ac-
count will be found in "Appleton's Bio
graphical Encyclopedia, but even this
one, which was written by Higginson,
is tainted with the same old animus that
exists against the South. 1t does look
| like that forty Years of time and the
| freedom of the negroes ought to have
modified our enemies and retired old
John Brown and his followers into OBJ
| livion, but it has not, and now they are
| transferring their bones to a more con-
| genial soil and vii have grand ceremo-
| nies over their burial.
Mckinley has been invited, and as two
| of the seven We're negroes, | reckon he
win go. Maybe the devil has got them
keeping postoffice somewhere in Hades.
BILL ARP.