The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-12-22
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/: Va. as follows:
II have been informed by the most
| reliable authority that Il secret council
/ or meeting has been held III a house cd
I John Browns tract. vast wilderness
/ in northern New York The Ilarper't
| Ferry affair called them together, and 4
t large number of desperate characters
volunteered to avenze the death of Bsowt
and party with revoivers. fire ana poison
THREAT oF POISON.
~ secret agent has been sent to Nor.
treal and other cities after strichnine
arsenic. acoaitc. prussc acid, etc. which
are to be put in wells, cisterns and il
the iIanas of disconnected slaves.
He says storm is brewing and 1t i
best for You to prepare at once for tht
encounter and avalanche pf midnight
cutthroats. house and barn burners and
poison distributors" lie adds that hA
obtained his informaticsJ from the wiz
OF d man who participated in the confer
/ cnce.
From Montreal F. W. Bower wrote II
Mr.. H,ater. describing the visit TO that
city of Fred: Douglass Douglass was cs
his way to England. He WAS ionized IN
Montreal. and stated that the JONI
Brown raids were against his wisdom.
Even the overthrow of the Federal
Government has been determined upon
ito accomplish their object said NJ
John L. Snow in a letter from Detroit
to Thomas c. Green. Mayor of Charles.
F.: town III speaking OF an attempt of S,Rt
men to rescce John Brown These rIelV
he said. we're desperate. and were STori
/ 10 save Brown or die. They were 10 rem
| devious near Chariastowu on the Goth 81
November. 1883
Each man is provided with two revalv
IjI1fI1 u
[ gives each man twenty-four shots.
/ large bowie-knife and IA short breccls
/ loading. Self-capping and printing @ar
/! birc which can be oaded and otscharssa
ten times in q minute.
FEARED ENCEsSES.
RE describes these earbines as beir,
! easily taken apart and very compact. and
| we're manufactured especially for Brown,
I expedition.
t Their object now seems to be only "a
| rescue old Brown and party htt beiaS
| successful in this and with arms IN theit
| hands, who Will imagine for one moment
! that they will stop short ot the liberia
| ton OF all our slaves?
| There is an organization here in thi
/ Ncrth now, numbering eight Thousand.
! who arc sworn TO know no rest until thef
/ see: an end of slater. III all the States 81
. the Union. I give this for what 1T -
| worth. but from what know OF the feei'
ms. of the people of these Northern States
| a,n much mere than half inclined to be-
/ live 1t is true. / know there is madness
i enough mere 20 FORM ten sucn organtzt.
/ tons, and ( feel that unless the SOUTH
is warned and armsd in time t;!at "a
shall have pne OF the most terrific c'tll
! vars that ever disgraced the annals u
t history, ancient or modern
! This letter is endorsed Important.
~ - e.. toll tYE4T,f1 4
/ one III the authoritative predictions oil TIA
i great civil strife
From Rochester. woman signing herr
/ self S, y B.. and presumably It sister,
wrote as follows TO brown:
Il have watched you. dear brother, wit4
/ moro than sisters love- as you Wers
taken from your cell to the place wheEs
| t;.e Judgment hai-tise sentence has pesa
i,assc,i-the work has been done-i SEA
YOU Wounded and weak in body. yer
! .;tronz, in trust-f invoke upon You ths
choicest a? Heavens benetactions. Sha
closes with "a sisters holy sympathy
u, WITH you 70 the portals of HeaveE
PLAN TO k!pNhr
what purpocfesI to he an attempt -
l;iGnap sIr Hunter aud other proninens
citizens Of Virginia was disclosed In
letter from = II. Nythe. written frofa
I tbt Merchants Hotel New York city.
/ He explained ltia ,ASttdtiS 'titS|S
jrto tho confidence OF q gang OF men who
were intent cr: :escuins Brown tie con-
| tinues:
,rhis gang row numbers two hundred
| members scattered along the line OF Eir-
4 GINA, not more than ten or twelve TO
/ town. They arc 10 corSregats ana Hiees
| at Charicstown. sisze you and your iu-
| fuer.tial citizens and carry you ali oic
| to some rendezvous and hold you until
the authorities comply with their de-
MAIDS, and Il this scheme is carried ont,
| and Dee. I'd passes against their wishes.
then yourself. son and etness opneSieus
to Their, q,lll be taken CIT and hung in
the mountain,
..,rhe names o, all car give are 3. ..
! Smith Ralph Wilkes. Jgo. Pennington.
Charles cowdown. Able Eulhneh. Jos.
Brown. Aadrsw. Lewis and Fred. S.cksl
He explains that Smith Is the leader
and onca gsrvet, in the Criiaea under :as
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