The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-03-12

chaser occupied what he .couia or the
property. TN al length BLOWN and his
iurst original Northern Army foulyI
II was no use to resist further He
finally gave NJ aud moved away. His
swlnderling operations in Franklin,
Portage county, Ohio. would nake
another CHAPTER The last time saw
hini was at Brockway's ifotel% In
cleveland. where ha had u largo SunG
OF Missouri horser selling them. Brock
way tolu mo they were stolen and y
heard the question pu. TO Brown him
sell. and he did not deny It,"
Abraham Lincoln In his Cooper IN
stftntc speech said: John Browns
EFFORT was peculiar. II was not slave
instruction II was sn attempt hy
white men TO get UP II revolt among
the slaves, in witch the slaves re
fused TO participate. III fact, II was
so absurd that the SLAVES, III all their
ignorance, SAW plainir enough that it
could not succeed $ Orsinia (the
Italian assassin) attempt on Louis Ma
poleon and John Browns attemp: at
Harper's Ferry were III their rh.ioso-
ply tho same
Ell fhaycr. tho organizer aud pro-
note: OF tile Emlgrant Aid society,
VINO did much 10 make Kansas q free
state, in his Kansas Crusade saye:
Tho Chicago Republican Convention
which nominated ar. Lincoln for The
- E"-ucHcS III loo" UNANIMOUSLY re-
noived that Brown was one of The
greatest of criminals Thaddeus Ste
vens said: Brown ought 30 be hung
Tor attempting to capture Virginia
the way he did Henry Wilson said
John Brown is d 49, old fool, When
Brown made his invasion of Virginia
ana during his trial. conviction and
execution, ! was member Of Congress
ana had the means Of knowing The
opinions Of the mem bers. There was
not one member Of that body that con.
sidcred his punishment unjust. a few.
however. were OF the opinion that Il.
would have been better to have put
him IN madhousc for life. This mo
thod would have prevented the gro
tesque efforts Of few OF his sympa-
thlzers and supporters 10 parade him
before the country as martyr. 1t is
charity 10 rank Brown as a mono
maniac In the same list with Orsini.
Guiteau Booth and Freeman Blu,
his admirers did not allow this, for It
would rnin him as a saint and a mar
Tyr, They contend not only that nc
was sane. but that no was a great
moral hero. Ii wa admit his sanity
we must then regard him either as a
felon or fiend. But what did John
Brown do? In Kansas lie dragged
from their bedg 81 midnight three men
and TWO boys and hacked them IN
pieces with two-edged clcvers in such
a way that the massacre was report
ed to be tho work Of wild Indians. II any
butcher in New York City should hack
ara slash to death his own hogs and
slashed TO death these men and boys
In Kansas, he would be imprisoned
without delay. After this Brown slew
an unarmed, inoffensive farmer in
Missouri In his murderous raid at
HarPer's Ferry the first men he slew
was negro engaged In the discharge
OF his duty at the freight station
there"
In reference TO this work Of sectr-
ing things for Kansas ELL Thayer says
in his Kansas CRUSADER" Amos
Lawrence furnished hin, money which
enabled him TO pay his fare to Kan
sas late In the year 1855 Subsequently
he contributed for his use in the Ter.
ritory. and for travelling outside OF 1t,
many important sums. IIe also fur
nfshed about $1,000 10 pay mortgage
on Browns farm at North Elba n
Y. For one or two years he regarded
Brown SIS an honest man and useful
aid TO the Free State cause At length,
however. he learned how his CONT
dence had been abused. and from tina
time no one ever denounced the
Potawatomie assassin in more vigor-
GUS English. - He entered into a
contract with a blacksmith at Collins
Vile. Conn, to manufacture for him
1000 pixies of n certain pattern. to be
completed IN ninety days, and paid
$3.50 on the contract There is no re-
cord that he mentioned this matter 10
any committee His proposed Kansas
minute men were only 100 IN number
and the pixies could not be for them.
Ills explanation to the bla cksmtn that
they would be q good weapon OF do
tense for the Kansas settlers was
clearly a subterfuge. These pixies.
ordered about March 2S.5iS57. were
without doubt intended for his Viz
Einfa invasion; ana, in fact, the identi-
cal lot, finished after long delay un-
der the same contract, were shipped TO
him In September, 1859, and were
actually used in his Harpcr's Ferry
attempt. He came TO mo In
arms for the defense OF some Kansas
settlements which he said he knew
were soon 10 be. attacked by parties
already organized in Missouri for that
purpose. Not doubling his word, }
gave him all the arms I had, in value
about $500 Under tho same false pre-.
tense he secured another contribution
from Ethen Allen & Co, manufacture
turers of arms in this city. These arms
also were never brought to kansas,
but were captured at Harpcr's Ferry
Conctsely stated, the facts are as
follows: John Brown was never in
any proper sense citizen OF Kansas
nor was he "Osawatonie Brown" that
appellation IN the early years having
been applied to O. G. Brown. who
founded the town and gave it its name
compounded from the names OF tho
two streams that unite there, the
Usage and the Potawatomie. He never
engaged in any legitimate business or
empioyment while here; nor did he
aid In any In the Improvement or de-
vclopment of the country. With the
instincts of an anarchist and the hand
Of an assassin. his career in Kansas
was one Of lawless Ass and crime
the ono indelible blot on the otherwise:
fair free State record.
Ills body is molding in the grave.
but not in Kansas. He is buried where
he lived al North lIlba, N y
What / am saying may naturally
enough provoke the inquiry: What
then, does IT mean, this sentiment that
is abroad that holds John Brown 10 be
hero and martyr?" I answer that