The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-05

The animostty between the sections had been strained. nurtured and cultivated until 1t had eliminated into personal en- counter, each side defying the other until 1t required very little to bring the excited combustibles together.
 During the administration of : MT. Buchanan, which began the 4th of March. tso', the people of the United States of ooth political parties were kept wrought up by the angry debates and discussions In Congress over various and numerous suessons pertaining to the interest of The Southern States. ts
 The Missouri Compromise, the Slavery Question in the Territories,' the Abolitionlst, afterwards became the anti havery or Republican party, fought against slavery in all its aspects Dr. Minot Savage of New York on the race question which he says threatened the future of the republic. Slavery would have continued. he said, to exist in the North as 1t did In the South if it had been profitable here. To add to this bit- terness of the North against the South, Senator Sumner of Massachusetts, a vim dictive mouth-piece of the Abolitionists, In the heat of debate, let all his vitupera- lion and venom of hatred of the Southern people fall upon the shoulders of Sena- Tor Butler of South Carolina, the Nestor shat body being more than four score gears of age. His nephew, Preston S. Brooks. a member of the House of Rep resentatives resented this tirade of abuse
 If the venerable old man by chastising Sumner with a small cane, just after he .ame out of the Senate chamber, at the loot of the steps of the capitol Both Ides, the North and the South were then m bad temper. The Southern people did aot condemn Brooks, he was looking apon as champion defending the rights Ind privileges of the South accorded them by the constitution. Sumner returned to his Eastern home, played the martyr for political effect. The Northern people grew furious at this indignity imposed upon their chosen champion.
 Instigated by this old John Brown went 10 Virginia at HaNper's Ferry to excite and lead the negroes to insurrection. He failed in this mission of vandalism and murder; he was captured and hung to the regret of his Abolition sympathizers.
 We find in the North American Re- view of the 18th ult., 1860. a remarkable article; remarkable in a scatching expos- ure of John Brown and remarkable for Its source. coming from a Northern abo- ltionist, Rev. David N. Utter He says, "He has taken pains to get at the truth of John Browns raid upon the South and exhibits him as an exponent of the doc- Urine of the devil, a coward and boast tul liar against his people: his own people repudiated him. and denounced him as a common murderer" The reader of this fxtract from the article which we append, will bear In mind that MT. Utter Is Northern man and opposed to slavery, a downright Abolitonist. Yet he was con- Servative. made of better material than this assassin. John Brown was a dis turbing influence in Kansas from the first On May g. 1856 on Ottawa Creek, he ealled for volunteers to begin the war in rarnest against slavery; there was no response to this call; the old fanatic was not to be baffled. He had four sons present and a son-in-law; these. at least, he could command. The sons, Owen, Brown. Watson Brown, Frederick Brown. Oliver Brown and his son-in-law, Henry Thompson, went into camp on Thursday md spent the next day. Friday, in grind ng and sharpening their sabres.
 John Brown procured a wagon and team 10 go to Potowatomie. At o'clock Shey started with rifles and revolvers all