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John Brown
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. |
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John Brown
Daily Herald Wilmington, North Carolina 10-26-1859 Opposition 'Twasno insurrection, and it is a libel upon the slave indesignating it as such. |
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John Brown
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. |
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John Brown
An Insurrection Without Negroes Cincinnati Daily Enquirer Cincinnati, Ohio 12-4-1859 Democratic the negroes of Virginia are not insurrectionally inclined. |
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John Brown
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. |
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John Brown
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. |
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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. |
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John Brown
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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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John Brown
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. |
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John Brown
Albany Evening Journal Albany, New York 11-30-1859 Republican Our own belief is that he should not be executed |
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John Brown
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 |
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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? |
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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 |
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John Brown
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. |
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John Brown
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. |
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John Brown
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. |
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John Brown
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." |
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John Brown
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. |
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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 |
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John Brown
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 |
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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. |
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John Brown
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. |
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John Brown
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! |
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John Brown
New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 10-19-1859 Republican The Insurrection, so called, at Harper's Ferry, proves a verity. |
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John Brown
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. |
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John Brown
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. |
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John Brown
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. |
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John Brown
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. |
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John Brown
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. |
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John Brown
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. |
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John Brown
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. |
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John Brown
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. |
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John Brown
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. |
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John Brown
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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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John Brown
Illinois State Register Springfield, Illinois 12-6-1859 Democratic a scoundrel and traitor has paid the just penalty of the laws. |
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John Brown
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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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John Brown
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. |
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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. |
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John Brown
Semi-weekly Raleigh Register Raleigh, North Carolina 12-9-1859 Opposition Much very silly ridicule has been aimed at Gov. Wise |
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John Brown
Chicago Press and Tribune Chicago, Illinois 12-2-1859 Republican The man's heroism which is as sublime as that of a martyr |
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John Brown
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. |
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John Brown
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. |
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John Brown
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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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John Brown
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 |
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John Brown
Republican Banner Nashville, Tennessee 10-22-1859 Opposition The causes of the riot, it is impossible now to determine. |
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John Brown
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. |
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John Brown
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. |
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John Brown
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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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John Brown
Chicago Press and Tribune Chicago, Illinois 10-26-1859 Republican The Slaveholders have evenless confidence in the "patriarchal tenure"than the "Abolitionists." |
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John Brown
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. |
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John Brown
Daily Pittsburgh Gazette Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 11-30-1859 Republican Free speech is now denied at the South. |
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John Brown
State Gazette Austin, Texas 12-3-1859 Democratic no pull quote designated |
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John Brown
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 |
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John Brown
Chicago Press and Tribune Chicago, Illinois 10-22-1859 Republican In all this they are assisted by the bogus Democratic party. |
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John Brown
New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 10-27-1859 Republican The slave-statutes of Virginia are but legislated, enacted, concrete fright. |
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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! |
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John Brown
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. |
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John Brown
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 |
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John Brown
Daily Herald Wilmington, North Carolina 12-5-1859 Opposition It is useless to disguise the fact, that the entireNorth and Northwest are hopelessly abolitionized. |
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John Brown
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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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John Brown
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. |
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