The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-12-09

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 John Brown and the Rebellion
 Born fin London.
 | There is now in London, on a mission
 from the United States government,
 and for literary purposes of his own,
 an American journalist of distinction,
 who was a member of John Browns
 conspiracy in the cause of the emanci-
 patton of the slaves and narrowly miss
 ed death at Harper's Ferry. This is
 Richard Hinton, dauntless old soldier
 of humanity, who, though he was twice
 wounded in the American civil war,
 and has taken his life in his hands in
 Cuban swamps, and once on secret ser- vice in the Southern states, is still a stalwart veteran, full of fire and val liant energy for new causes as well as | for old. It is enough to say that MT. Hinton looks the part he has lived
 ruddy and upright, with long gray beard and sweeping hair, decision
 marked in his clear eyes and heavy, well-arched eyebrows For all the share
 he has taken in American life he is
 Londoner born and bred, his father, a | Welsh workman of great skill, having been responsible for setting up the FL gin marbles in the British museum He has come to London after an absence
 of fifty-one years-driven out, as he says, by England, his hard stepmother, who denied him the thing that he chief ly wanted-education.
 Mir Hinton's association with John Brown was of a double character, as l
 learned (writes a representative of the Daily News) from his lips It began in Kansas in 1855, at the opening of the long struggle for free state as against
 a ve-holding community, and ended With the attempt at Harper's Ferry. Young Hinton went down as a corre- spondent of the Boston Traveller and
 Chicago Tribune to help fight the good fight against the border ruffians" of
 Missouri, who vamped up the Lecomp- ton constitution. and tried to rush the
 new territory into the circle of slave
 states. From journalism young Hinton
 drifted into acquaintanceship with
 John Brown, the Calvinist Zealot, and
 his associates-one of whom, by the
 way, was a nephew of MT. Gladstone
 and correspondent of the Times Their
 ardor was apt to outrun the scant
 measure of law that obtained in those
 wild days. North and South fought out
 a rough and tumble fight, in which the
 weapons were Sharp's rifles or rival
 constitutions. Brown clearly attract
 ed him, for there was fascination in the
 man whose stern, sef-centered charac-
 ter and absolute fearlessness made him a natural leader for hot youth. Still more was MT Hinton drawn to young
 Kagi, a lad of his own age, who was Browns lieutenant in the assault on Harper's Ferry Mr Hinton had vivid remembrance of this romantic figure. He was indeed hewn out of the same human quarry as his leader, the man who said, "One man in the right, ready to die, will chase a thousand" How ever, MT Hinton shall tell the story of his journey to Northern Virginia in his own way:
 T had remained in Kansas, as as- sistant editor of a paper, when I got my summons to join John Brown. The let ter, like the plot itself, was, of course, yelled communication. It stated that the mines were ready, the tools in the ground, and that if he adhered to his d6IeellltIlL lle WdS lO Jpltl lIle tOlllpEfly at once and report himself The let l ter was signed Isaac smith, Browns assumed name. I realized all my cash and started for the rendezvous at Fa- l gerstown, where I met Brown and Kagi. The latter was of Swiss extrac- tion, an Apollo in appearance, with l broad, high brow and splendid frame. | He had had a brilliant career at col lege. He was lawyer and mathema- tician, spoke Hebrew, Greek, Latin, French and was writer and thinker. He explained the plan of attack It seemed desperate. We shall all be kill ed,' l said. Certainly we shall replied Kagi quietly, but 1t always pays. The interview over, I went back to my quarters at Chambersburg, hidden in the fugitive slave-wagon which John Brown ran over the border into Penn sylvania. I had arranged to join the party October "A, 1859, when the as- sault was to begin. But Browns mys- terious cominss and goings had got abroad and three days after my interview with Kagi-October 16- he was suddenly forced to act The first news of the attempt which l re-
  rushed in to say that the country was up, and that I must leave at once. Years afterward I learned that Brown and Kagi had decided to spare me, that my work as journalist was essential to their movements A negro boy offered to guide me over the hills-a low pass in the Alleghanies- nto Pennsylvania. and later on I drop ped back into my old quarters in Kan sas. There l was presented with sum- mons to attend the Investigating com nittee of the senate at Washington. Don't serve that summons on me, MT. Sheriff, said, and he didn't. Perhaps ny revolver had something to do with t, and in any case my Kansas friends would not have allowed the government % take me. Later on I learned that young Haslett, member of the liar oer's Ferry party, had been hung in ny assumed name of William Harri- ;on.''
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