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John Brown

A Caution.

Times-Picayune
New Orleans, Louisiana
10-9-1859
Democratic
These journals thus make themselves the agents, which abolitionism desires, for sending its tracts into the midst of the South, and, under professions of friendship, do the work of our deadliest foes.
John Brown

A Misnomer.

Daily Herald
Wilmington, North Carolina
10-26-1859
Opposition
'Twasno insurrection, and it is a libel upon the slave indesignating it as such.
John Brown

A Singular Enterprise.--

Frankfort Commonwealth
Frankfort, Kentucky
11-21-1859
Opposition
The greed of money-getting is not very particular in the way of accomplishing its purposes but the most singular instance we have lately heard of, is an effort to turn the execution of Ossawattomie Brown and his fellow conspirators to account, by getting up a monster excursion, from all parts of the country, of those who have a sufficiently morbid appetite for the horrible as to induce them to desire to be present.
John Brown

An Insurrection Without Negroes

Cincinnati Daily Enquirer
Cincinnati, Ohio
12-4-1859
Democratic
the negroes of Virginia are not insurrectionally inclined.
John Brown

Anti-Slavery Blasphemy.

Daily Patriot
Concord, New Hamphire
12-7-1859
Democratic
several lives, of unoffending victims, are without the least provocation and most wantonly taken away by lawless violence, yet not a word of reproof is heard from our pulpits.
John Brown

Brown and the Virginians.

New-York Daily Tribune
New York, New York
11-19-1859
Republican
Brown, however, escapes being ridiculous by faith, fortitude, devotedness, and unshaken confidence in his cause and himself with which, wounded, a prisoner, his followers slain or captured, and himself condemned to death, he still adheres to his project as a feasible and rational no less than a philanthropic undertaking.
John Brown

Brown Republican Sympathizers.

Illinois State Register
Springfield, Illinois
11-9-1859
Democratic
If abolitionism and republicanism are identical in New York, they are equally in so Illinois.
John Brown

Brown's Foray.

Times-Picayune
New Orleans, Louisiana
11-8-1859
Democratic
Now that John Brown's foray upon Virginia is over and the surviving ringleaders are under doom for their crimes, the agitation which has greatly subsided at the South continues to grow and increase at the North.
John Brown

Don't Like Their Own Medicine.

Cincinnati Daily Enquirer
Cincinnati, Ohio
10-29-1859
Democratic
he was backed up and sustained by money and arms obtained from Abolitionists and Republicans of the North
John Brown

EXECUTION OF JOHN BROWN.

Semi-weekly Raleigh Register
Raleigh, North Carolina
12-3-1859
Opposition
In all the Noo England towns and villages, we may expect to hear that mock funerals have been celebrated, and all kinds of nonsensically lugubrious displays made.
John Brown

Execution of the Four Conspirators.

Semi-weekly Raleigh Register
Raleigh, North Carolina
12-21-1859
Opposition
It will bring to an immediate solution the question as to whether the Union can be preserved, and the right of the South to hold property in slaves be maintained.
John Brown

Forewarned, Forarmed.

Natchez Daily Courier
Natchez, Mississippi
11-18-1859
Opposition
Perhaps there never was a wilder or more foolish enterprise -- leaving entirely out of view the atrocity of the thing -- than that undertaken by Brown and his confederates at Harper's Ferry.
John Brown

From the Philadelphia Press.

Albany Evening Journal
Albany, New York
11-30-1859
Republican
Our own belief is that he should not be executed
John Brown

Gerrit Smith's Insanity.

Times-Picayune
New Orleans, Louisiana
11-11-1859
Democratic
None of these are improbable effects of the Harper's Ferry events on a man of Gerrit Smith's temperament, history frailties and fanaticisms
John Brown

Gov. Wise and the Harper's Ferry Banditti.

Semi-weekly Raleigh Register
Raleigh, North Carolina
11-5-1859
Opposition
Is not the New York Times ashamed of itself?
John Brown

Important Disclosures -- Seward and Chase -- Harper's Ferry.

Cincinnati Daily Enquirer
Cincinnati, Ohio
10-28-1859
Democratic
the leading Abolition Republicans of the free states were privy to it
John Brown

Inciting To Insurrection.

New-York Daily Tribune
New York, New York
10-29-1859
Republican
The Virginian Chivalry seem to be bent on proving that their Ancient Dominion was, and is, in danger of being taken away from them by foreign invasion and domestic insurrection.
John Brown

John Brown's Insanity.

New-York Daily Tribune
New York, New York
11-25-1859
Republican
It is abundantly shown by these affidavits that on the mother's side Brown belonged to a family in which insanity was hereditary.
John Brown

Kansas Fruits.

New-York Daily Tribune
New York, New York
10-28-1859
Republican
Those who are now straining every nerve to make party capital out of Old Brown, are careful not to look back so far as to see how and why he became a monomaniac.
John Brown

Military Aid to Virginia.

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
11-28-1859
Democratic
We are satisfied that every intelligent man in the South has been completely disgusted at the broad and pathetic farce that has been played off before the public about the hanging of that hoary villain, "OLD BROWN."
John Brown

Mr. Wendell Phillips

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
11-5-1859
Democratic
Avarice alone keeps them in association with us -- avarice gratified at our submission to their policy of plunder and [sic] aggrandisement.
John Brown

MURDER AND TREASON vs. PATRIOTISM.

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
11-4-1859
Democratic
the Tribune considers the act of Brown as the act of a patriot
John Brown

No False Issue.

Times-Picayune
New Orleans, Louisiana
11-3-1859
Democratic
Giddings and Smith would desire no better position -- for giving them a strength, beyond that which either can hope to possess as Abolitionists, within the free States -- than to be made the subject of a formal demand for transfer to Virginia
John Brown

No Pardon or Commutation of Sentence for Old Brown.

Semi-weekly Raleigh Register
Raleigh, North Carolina
11-9-1859
Opposition
The conduct of these Northern people presents a most extraordinary compound of villainy and impudence.
John Brown

No Title

Albany Evening Journal
Albany, New York
12-2-1859
Republican
the mad men of the South who, to bolster up Slavery, are ready to abrogate the most sacred rights guaranteed to a free people.
John Brown

No Title.

New-York Daily Tribune
New York, New York
10-18-1859
Republican
A most extraordinary telegraphic bulletin startled the whole country yesterday -- one importing that an Insurrection had just broken out at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, and that it was the work of negroes and Abolitionists!
John Brown

No Title.

New-York Daily Tribune
New York, New York
10-19-1859
Republican
The Insurrection, so called, at Harper's Ferry, proves a verity.
John Brown

No Title.

New-York Daily Tribune
New York, New York
10-26-1859
Republican
Rather than be complimented in this back-handed style, we imagine that the military would have preferred not to have been mentioned at all.
John Brown

No Title.

Daily Pittsburgh Gazette
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
12-3-1859
Republican
millions of curses were uttered against the hellish system which so mercilessly and ferociously cried out for his blood.
John Brown

No Title.

Frankfort Commonwealth
Frankfort, Kentucky
10-24-1859
Opposition
We are pleased to observe that the Northern press, without the distinction of party, express the most unqualified condemnation of the wicked and insane projects of Brown and his hairbrained associates.
John Brown

No Title.

Frankfort Commonwealth
Frankfort, Kentucky
10-28-1859
Opposition
[Pointing Finger] The Harper's Ferry affair continues to attract more attention than all other matters combined, and we therefore yield most of our space to the telegraphic reports of the examining trial of Brown an his confederates.
John Brown

No Title.

Frankfort Commonwealth
Frankfort, Kentucky
10-28-1859
Opposition
[Pointing Finger] The Richmond Enquirer is fearfully distressed lest Kentucky may be made the victim of a "descent" of the class of Abolitionists of whom Brown is a type, and lest, being at a greater distance from the forces of the Federal Government, the attempt at exciting a general insurrection among the slaves of this State may be successful before the assistance of the Federal troops can be obtained.
John Brown

No Title.

Frankfort Commonwealth
Frankfort, Kentucky
10-31-1859
Opposition
[Pointing Finger] The public are busy conjecturing whether or not Gov. Wise will demand from the Executives of Ohio and New York the bodies of Gerrit Smith, Giddings, and others, who may be implicated in the Harper's Ferry affair; and speculations are indulged as to what will be the course of those Governors, and as to the probable results of a refusal on their part to deliver up such citizens of their respective States as indictments may be found against by the Virginia authorities for aiding and abetting the recent act of invasion of that Commonwealth.
John Brown

No Title.

Frankfort Commonwealth
Frankfort, Kentucky
10-31-1859
Opposition
[Pointing Finger] We cannot but regard it as unfortunate that Judge Parker has seen proper to refuse the delay asked for by Brown, in order that he might procure his own counsel and not be compelled to rely upon the gentlemen furnished him by the Commonwealth.
John Brown

No Title.

Frankfort Commonwealth
Frankfort, Kentucky
11-11-1859
Opposition
[Pointing Finger] The following article from the Richmond Whig in the main expresses our own views so exactly that we adopt them.
John Brown

No Title.

Frankfort Commonwealth
Frankfort, Kentucky
12-17-1859
Opposition
[Pointing Finger] It is pleasing to observe the reaction which is rapidly taking place in Northern sentiment.
John Brown

No Title.

Times-Picayune
New Orleans, Louisiana
11-1-1859
Democratic
if this man should be caught, and made to suffer the penalties of his crimes, we suppose he would be elevated to the rank of a "martyr" in the calendar of Abolitionism, where Marat, Couthon, and Robespierre ought to stand.
John Brown

Our Harper's Ferry and Charlestown News.

Cincinnati Daily Enquirer
Cincinnati, Ohio
12-3-1859
Democratic
We rejoice that old BROWN has been hung
John Brown

Pardon for John Brown.

Times-Picayune
New Orleans, Louisiana
11-16-1859
Democratic
Some such answer will Virginia give to the clamorous outcry that comes to her from the free States for mercy to John Brown.
John Brown

Prayers and Sneers.

Illinois State Register
Springfield, Illinois
12-6-1859
Democratic
a scoundrel and traitor has paid the just penalty of the laws.
John Brown

THE "IRREPRESSIBLE CONFLICT."

Republican Banner
Nashville, Tennessee
10-25-1859
Opposition
while we unhesitatingly condemn the Republican party for the part they have performed in this alarming tragedy, we should be untrue to ourselves and unfaithful to the public, were we to pass over in silence the conduct of a party nearer home.
John Brown

The Abolition Insurrection at Harper's Ferry -- The Irrepressible Conflict begun.

Federal Union
Milledgeville, Georgia
11-1-1859
Democratic
this was a regularly concocted, and premeditated attempt of Abolition Fanatics to overthrow the Government, and emancipate the slaves.
John Brown

The Abolitionists of the North Implicated in the Harper's Ferry Insurrection.

Cincinnati Daily Enquirer
Cincinnati, Ohio
10-20-1859
Democratic
the Northern Abolitionists are implicated and are at the bottom of the Harper's Ferry conspiracy.
John Brown

The Cloud in the Distance No Bigger then a Man's Hand" - The First Battle of the "Irrepressible Conflict."

Cincinnati Daily Enquirer
Cincinnati, Ohio
10-19-1859
Democratic
It was an Abolitionplot to free the negroes ofMaryland and Virginia at the point of the bayonet.
John Brown

The Democratic Party and Old Brown.

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
11-8-1859
Democratic
To weaken, subject and use the South, but not to lose her, is their policy.
John Brown

The Execution of Brown.

Semi-weekly Raleigh Register
Raleigh, North Carolina
12-9-1859
Opposition
Much very silly ridicule has been aimed at Gov. Wise
John Brown

The Fatal Friday.

Chicago Press and Tribune
Chicago, Illinois
12-2-1859
Republican
The man's heroism which is as sublime as that of a martyr
John Brown

THE HARPER'S FERRY AFFAIR.

Boston Evening Transcript
Boston, Massachusetts
10-24-1859
Republican
the panic Mr. Brown with his handful of deluded followers created in Maryland and Virginia was not at all creditable to the people or authorities of the vicinity.
John Brown

The Harper's Ferry Affair.

Daily Patriot
Concord, New Hamphire
10-26-1859
Democratic
the dangerous tendencies of the pernicious doctrines which, during a few years past, have been so zealously taught and advocated by political leaders and partisan preachers here at the North.
John Brown

The Harper's Ferry Affair.

Times-Picayune
New Orleans, Louisiana
10-25-1859
Democratic
The whole affair dwindles into utter insignificance as the literal facts are brought out from the uncertainty peculiar to the first demonstration.
John Brown

The Harper's Ferry Insurrection.

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
10-19-1859
Democratic
a concerted movement of abolitionists and their black victims in southern States
John Brown

The Harper's Ferry Insurrection.--

Arkansas State Gazette and Democrat
Little Rock, Arkansas
11-12-1859
Opposition
The great mass of the people, both in the North and the South, condemn Brown's treason, and rejoice to know that law and justice have been so promptly administered to him.
John Brown

The Harper's Ferry Invasion as Party Capital.

Richmond Enquirer
Richmond, Virginia
10-25-1859
Democratic
The vile clamor of party, the struggle of Republicanism for power, has given an impetus to the abolition zeal of old Brown and his comrades
John Brown

The Harper's Ferry Riot.

Republican Banner
Nashville, Tennessee
10-24-1859
Opposition
This attempt to excite an insurrection among the slaves is one of the natural results of the agitation of the slavery question
John Brown

THE HARPER'S FERRY RIOTS.

Republican Banner
Nashville, Tennessee
10-22-1859
Opposition
The causes of the riot, it is impossible now to determine.
John Brown

The Harper's Ferry Tragedy.

State Gazette
Austin, Texas
11-5-1859
Democratic
The bloody tragedy which we have endeavored to relate in our columns is at least some evidence of the influence of Black Republican agitation upon the masses of the Northern people.
John Brown

The Harper's Ferry Trials.

New-York Daily Tribune
New York, New York
10-25-1859
Republican
we do not see how they could be demanded for trial in Virginia.
John Brown

The Insurrection

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
10-21-1859
Democratic
It is a warning profoundly symptomatic of the future of the Union with our sectional enemies.
John Brown

The Insurrection at Harper's Ferry.

Frankfort Commonwealth
Frankfort, Kentucky
10-21-1859
Opposition
The details by Telegraph of the insurrection at Harper's Ferry take up so much space as to prevent their publication in our paper.
John Brown

The Martyr's Death and the Martyr's Triumph

New-York Daily Tribune
New York, New York
12-9-1859
Republican
no pull quote designated
John Brown

The New York Elections and their Meaning.

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
11-24-1859
Democratic
there are men whose minds are so blindly and determinedly fixed on preserving the Union, at all events, that nothing, short of the very fires of insurrection at their own homes, and the abduction of their property when Black Republican policy shall come to its consummation in the last grand catastrophe, can wean from vain hopes of northern magnanimity, or wake from the delusive dreams of future peace.
John Brown

The Patriarchal Tenure.

Chicago Press and Tribune
Chicago, Illinois
10-26-1859
Republican
The Slaveholders have evenless confidence in the "patriarchal tenure"than the "Abolitionists."
John Brown

The Plan of Insurrection.

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
11-1-1859
Democratic
Although BROWN'S effort at an insurrection has been silly and abortive, the developments are rapidly showing that a wide-spread scheme was maturing at the North for insurrections throughout the South.
John Brown

The Reign of Terror.--

Daily Pittsburgh Gazette
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
11-30-1859
Republican
Free speech is now denied at the South.
John Brown

The Rules of Ossawatamie.

State Gazette
Austin, Texas
12-3-1859
Democratic
no pull quote designated
John Brown

The True Lesson.

Times-Picayune
New Orleans, Louisiana
10-30-1859
Democratic
It is a very careless use of words to describe the Harper's Ferry outbreak as a "negro insurrection," or "slave insurrection," as is frequently done by presses
John Brown

The True Policy.

Chicago Press and Tribune
Chicago, Illinois
10-22-1859
Republican
In all this they are assisted by the bogus Democratic party.
John Brown

The Virginia Insurrection.

New-York Daily Tribune
New York, New York
10-27-1859
Republican
The slave-statutes of Virginia are but legislated, enacted, concrete fright.
John Brown

Virginia and the Fate of the Invaders

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
11-14-1859
Democratic
A question of policy to avoid giving occasion for their wailings and denunciations for the doom of their unfortunate confreres, pioneering the way to universal emancipation at the South!
John Brown

Virginia.

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
11-28-1859
Democratic
No one in the South could have watched the course of the Virginia statesmen and public presses since her sad fall in 1852, without marking her steady drifting to an anti-Southern nationalism.
John Brown

What is "Kansas Work?"

Times-Picayune
New Orleans, Louisiana
10-29-1859
Democratic
viewed in its true light, how there can be any question that it forms a part, and an important part, of the criminal transaction
John Brown

What Shall the South Do?

Daily Herald
Wilmington, North Carolina
12-5-1859
Opposition
It is useless to disguise the fact, that the entireNorth and Northwest are hopelessly abolitionized.
John Brown

Where is the Responsibility?

Times-Picayune
New Orleans, Louisiana
10-25-1859
Democratic
Reports speak of discoveries of correspondence with noted abolitionists and proofs of concert with notorious men in the Northern and Western States.
John Brown

Where the Responsibility Belongs.

Chicago Press and Tribune
Chicago, Illinois
10-20-1859
Republican
The Democratic party, however proposes toincrease the chances for insurrection, bloodshed and all the horrors of servile war, by extending the area of slavery indefinitely and by re-opening the African slave trade.
John Brown

Who Taught John Brown?

New-York Daily Tribune
New York, New York
11-12-1859
Republican
the champion of the slaveholding class will put to death the champion of the slave.
John Brown

Writhing of the Serpent.

Illinois State Register
Springfield, Illinois
10-27-1859
Democratic
The excuses of the black republican press are as various and conflicting as they are shallow.