Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1902-09-11
sHEPHERDSTOWN W. VA THURSDAY SEPTEMBER IL. 1902.
For the shepherdstOvn Regiserl
THE CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR.

THE CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR.
John Brown, known in Kansas as
Ossawottomie, had for ten years been
employed by the abolitionists, with a
lot of outlaws called "Jayhawkers, to
rob and to murder every man from
the South that attempted to enter that
territory with his slaves. Many OF
the best and most enterprising young
men of the South who went to settle
in that territory were murdered and
their slaves set free. Brown and his
outlaws, backed by some of the wealth
lest and influential sbolitionists Of the
Northern States, were so successful IN
murder and robbery and had escaped
the penitentiary and the gallows so
long that they thought they could try
their hands on the people of the State
Of Virginia. 1t was well-known that
their efforts were secretly aided and
abetted by such abolitiOnists as E.
Lloyd Garrison, Truman Smith, Ed
ward Everett and many others. They
were furnished with money, guns and
boxes of the deadly javelins that they
intended to put into the hands OF the
negroes, with which they were tomur-
der their masters and their mistresses
and their children. These implements
of death and murder were made in
the Northern States expressly for this
purpose, and secretly shipped for
Brown and his "Jayhawkers" to a va
cant house on the Kennedy farm in
Washington county, Nd, about two
miles and a-half from Harpers Ferry.
This was their place Of rendezvous
from which they visited Harpers Fer
ry, Halltown, and the farms in Jefer-
son county.
The Browns, Cooks and COPpic made
Louis Washington's place, near Hall
town, place of frequent resort to en-
joy the hospitality Of the gentleman
whose murder they were plotting
while eating his bread and salt. With
a treachery that would disgrace the
Bedouin Arab, they were enjoying and
sharing the hospitality of his accom-
plished wife, while their accomplices
were fitting handles to iavelins by
which she was to be murdered by her
servants on the following or the next
evening. The blacks failed to re-
spond to their murderous designs,
their insurrection failed old Brown,
and Cook, the son of the governor Of
Indiana, were captured and paid the
penalty of their crimes on the gallows
at Charles Town. Young John Brown
and Coppic escaped. The former fed
to the Oberlin district Of Ohio, then
represented by Joshua R. Gittings;
the latter fled to Iowa. Dennison was
then governor of Ohio, and KirkwOOd
was governor of Iowa. The governor
of Virginia was Henry A. Wise, who
made the demand on Dennison, Of
Ohio, for the delivery Of Brown, and
on Kirkwood for the delivery Of Cop
pic. The answers of these two men
Governors Dennison and Kirkwood
two Of the sovereign heads Of two Of
the sovereign States Of the Union,
who, upon entering upon the duties
of their offices, had sworn before high
Heaven that they would obey, protect
and defend the Constitution Of these
United States, was the mosC evasive,
the most contemplate and pusillani-
nous specimen of subterfuge that was
ever employed by weak officials to DIS
grace the archives Of a nation. But
they refused to deliver the criminals.
Many times before had the rights of
the South been ignored by the citi-
zens Of the North, but this last act Of
two of the sovereign heads of two Of
the sovereign States, told the people
of the South plainly that they had no
rights under the Constitution of the
Union that would ever be respected or
obeyed by the people Of the North.
If the South chose to secede, Massa-
chusetts had already set them the ex-
ample. L. +.
About Pennies.