Jefferson County West Virginia USGenWeb Archives News.....Insurrection November 1, 1859
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Western College Reporter November 1, 1859
Western College Advocate, Western College, Iowa, November 1, 1859

INSURRECTION

It appears from our exchanges that Capt. John Brown of Kansas celebrity has 
been making himself more than ever famous at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia. 
Collecting at that place a band of desperate men-17 whites and 4 negroes; on 
the 17th of October he took possession of the U. S. Arsenal and the town and 
making a most determined resistance to the troops sent against him was taken 
only after he was severely wounded and nearly all his men were shot down.
Capt. Brown has shown for a long time that the aim of his life is to liberate 
the slave and avenge the death of his offspring. We cannot deny that he has 
done some good service and had his efforts been confined to giving aid to 
escaping slaves without causing bloodshed, we should say “God speed him.” And 
notwithstanding we most emphatically condemn such outbreaks as this at 
Harper’s Ferry, and hope the law may have its course with him we can hardly 
consider him more guilty in the sight of God, than thousands of slaveholders 
whom the laws of the land do not reach.


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