JOHN BROWN'S RAID.
Something About the Man and the
Attack on Harpers' Perry, Made
Forty Years Ago.
The Baltimore Sun adverts to the
fact that forty years ago on Octo
ber 17tb, 1859, to be accurate
Baltimore and the surrounding
country was in a state of intense
excitement over the news of the
John Brown raid, at Harper's Fer
ry, and over 200 of the Baltimore
military were hurrying to Camden
Station to take special trains for
the scene of trouble, while the
streets were crowded with excited
people. Harpers Ferry had been
captured by the invaders late the
night before.
While John Brown, and his raid
occupy a prominent position in
American history, the average man
vaguely regards the event as more
remote" that it is. The tremendous
happenings of following years seem
to have shouldered Brown further
into the past, to be dealt with solely
by history, yet there are a number
of men who distinctly remember
the stirring events of October,
1859, and some who participated
directly in incidents connected with
the, raid.
JOHN BROWN'S EARLY LIFE.
John Brown was born in Tor
rington, Conn., May 9, 1800. His
ancestor, Peter Brown, came over
with the historic party in the May-
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of age John Brown was taken by
his parents to Ohio, where he be
came familiar with the Indians,
who were dwelling all around.
Early in life he married
Diana Lusk, a widow, and they had
seven children. His second wife
was Mary Anne Day, who died in
San Francisco7 itt" 1884. Thirteen
children were born to them.
Brown engaged in various under
takings, living in Ohio, Pennsyl
vania and Massachusetts, from the
last named state making trips to
England with cargoes of wool. In
1848 he purchased a farm at North
Elbra, N. Y., and settled there.
During all this time he was active
ly engaged in various abolition en
terprises. In 1854 five of his sons
removed to Kansas, and Brown
joined them the next year, settling
near Ossawattomie. There all the
family became mixed up in the
.fierce factional contests over slav
ery, and finally had to leave the
state. Brown led bands of men in
several bloody fights, and was
charged with the murder of five
prominent pro-slavery men, who
. were called from their beds at night
and killed.
- For many years Brown had been
working on schemes to cause a
wholesale release and flight of
slaves in the Southern states. The
plan finally settled upon was to
make an armed incursion into Vir
ginia, release and arm a number of
slaves and send these out to release
and arm others. In this way he
expected the wave of insurrection
to grow and spread as he advanced,
until an irresistible - movement
would sweeD on to the Gulf. Brown
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couecieu cuusiuerauie money irom
sympathizers An the North, and
. purchased quantities of firearms
and other weapons.
PLANNING THE RAID.
That the raid on-Harpers Ferry
was a plot of long standing is evi
denced by the fact that for some
time before making the attempt
Brown had his emissaries looking
over the field. In the guise of book
agents, stock dealers and prospec
tive farm buyers they roamed
about" the country surrounding
Harper's Ferry, even then secretly
inviting elayes to revolt.
In the early autumn of 1858 a
stranger went to the house of Dr.
Thomas Waddox, in the Tilghman
ton district of Washington county,
and sold a copy of HeadleyV Life
of Washington. . He said bis name
was S. Stearns, and asked to stay
all night, which request was cheer
fully coin plied with. At supper he
pronounced an inordinately long
"grace," fad after the meal disap
peared for several hours. It was
afterward learned that he bad been
in the kitchen urging the slaves to,
kill their master and obtain -their
freedomr The proposition was re
jected with horror by the slaves.
This man was John E. Cook,
Brown's lieutenant, who afterward
suffered the fate of hrs leaW
One day in July, 1859,Jacob
Fiery, who lived three miles south
an elderly man with a gray, grizzly
beard, and ayoung man. Mr. Fiery,
as administrator of the estate of
Dr. R. F. Kennedy, had charge of a
farm near Maryland Heights, three
miles from Harper's Ferry. The
old man introduced himself as I.
Smith, and said he wished to pur
chase the Kennedy farm, believing
there were minerals there. Mr.
Fiery said he could not sell the
place at that time, so Smith who
was in reality John Brown rented
it, paying the first quarter's rent
in advance in gold. Brown at once
took possesion of the farm and was
joined by several of his men. His
daughter Anne and his daughter-in-law,
the wife of Oliver Brown,
kept house for them.
Almost immediately mysterious
hoTes bezan to arrive from north
ern cities, some coming by way of
Chambersburg, Pa., and others by
Shepherdstown. Brown said the
boxes contained mining tools, but
thev reallv contained firearms and
pikes. Soon Brown had in the
house 200 Sharp's rifles, 200 May.
nard's revolvers, and 1,000 pikes
or spears.
THE FAMOUS RAID.
Sunday evening, October 16,
1859, Brown announced that the
time bad arrived for' the attack on
Harper's Ferry. This place had
been selected because it was not far
to send freed salves across the
narrow strip of Maryland into
Pennsylvania, and because Brown
knew the United States arsenal
there was not well guarded.
Cook was left to guard the Ken
nedy farm and the weapons there.
The night of the start was cold and
dark, ending in rain. The little
party marched across the bridge
and -into Harper's Ferry at 10.30
o'clock. They broke into the ar
senal gate, overpowered the watch
men on duty and seized the place.
Before midnight th village was
quietly patrolled by Brown's men,
and six had been sent to bring in
certain neighboring planters and
their slaves.
While they were gone some others
of the party were busy arresting
prominent citizens of the town. A
small but strong brick engine house
near the railroad was selected as
headquarters, and into this the
prisoners were placed. Eight or
ten slaves were seized, given spears
and made to stand guard about the
place. Bv midnight Monday thirty
or forty of the leading citizens had
been captured and imprisoned, as
well as a number of workmen who
were seized while on their way to
work early in the morning.
News of the attack on Harper's
Ferry caused intense excitement
throughout the country. The first
reports were that there had been a
general uprising of slaves, headed
by 250 abolitionists, and the exact
number of the raiders was cot defi
nitely known until they were cap
tured early Tuesday morning. The
first information of the affair was
brought by Conductor Phelps, of a
Baltimore and Ohio train, who was
allowed to come east after having
been held up from 1 to 5 o'clock
Monday morning. Phelps, who was
a Baltimorean, had several confer
ences with Brown, who was then
called Anderson.
Curiously enough, the first vic
tim of an enterprise intended to
free negroes was a colored employe
of the railroad, named Hay ward
Sheppard, who was shot Sunday
night because he did not surrender
quickly enough. "
Upon receipt of the news Presi
dent Buchanan sent a company of
United States marines from Wash
ington to Harper's Ferry, and
Maryland) and Virginia state troops
were also ordered there. The ma
rines were in command of Lieuten
ant Green, and Col. Robert E. Lee,
who had been living in Baltimore
several years, while superintending
the construction of Fort Carroll,
was sent to take command of all
military operations at Harper's
Ferry. With him, as aide, went
Lieut; J. E. B. Stuart, afterward
the famous Confederate cavalrv
leader. - -
It was found that 'the raiders had
been surrounded in their impro'
"vised fort since 3 o'clock in the
afternoon. The town people had
in a measure recovered from their
fright, had armed themselves, and,
reinforced by a number of railroad
men from Martinsburg, under Cap
tain Alburtis, had given battle to
the raiders and driven them into
the engine house.
The .United States marines ar
rived at 2 30 a. m. Tuesday morn
ing, the Baltimore troops who ac
companied them being left on the
Maryland side of the river to pre
vent the escape of any of the raid
ers. At 7 a. m. Colonel Lee called
upon Brown to surrender. He re
fused, and an attack upon his fort
was at once made. The marines,
under Lieutenant Green, battered
down the door with ladders, and
after a j fierce fight, captured the
surviving raiders. Only six were
alive, all the others, including
Brown's two sons, having been kill
ed. Several were killed while try
ing to escape across the river. John
Brown and several of the survivors
were badlyl wounded, j
The surviving raiders were Brown,
Cgpeland, Green, Coppee, Haslett
andSlevens.
JOHN BROWN 6 TRIAL.
The trial of John, Brown began
October 28, at Cbarlestown. Judge
Richard Parker, who presided, died
a few years ago, in Winchester, Va.
The jurors were Richard Timber
lake. Joseph Myers, Thomas Wat
son, Jr., Isaac Dust, John C. Mc
Clure, William Rightstine, Jacob
J. Miller, Thomas Osborne, Geo.
Wj 3oyer, John C. Wiltshire, Geo.
W. Tapp and William A. Martin.
Mr. Boyer is the only svrviyor of
the 12. He lives near Shenandoah
Junction, W. Va. i
Lawson Botts and Thomas C.
Green, of the Charle6town bar,
were assigned to defend Brown.
Later, George H. Hoyt, of Boston ;
Hi1 Griswold, of Cleveland, Ohio,
and Samuel Chilton, of Washing
ton, D. C, arrived and took charge
of the defense. After a trial last
ing six days the prisoner was con
victed of treason, insurrection and
murder. The other prisoners were
subsequently convicted.-
Cook, who was a brother in law
of Got. A. P. Wiliard, of Indiana,
had! been captured in Pennsylvania,
a few days after the raid. Gover
nor j Wiliard brought some of the
best counsel in Indiana to defend
him. The appeal of Daniel W.
Voorhees to the jury has even since
been spoken. of as a masterpiece of
eloquence. . - -
Brown was hanged at 11.15 a.m.
Friday, December 2. Over 1,200
military, under command of Gen.
W. B. Taliaferro, guarded the town
and! jail, and no one was allowed to
approach the prisoner. It has long
been believed that on his way to
the I gallows Brown stooped and
kissed a negro child. A well
known Baltimore newspaper man,
who reported the hanging for his
paper, says no such thing occurred.
Brown marched from his cell to
the j wagon between solid lines of
soldiers ; the wagon on the way to
the gallows Was surrounded by
soldiers, and no one except the
military was allowed to be within
several hundred yards of the gal
lows. At no time could a person
approach Brown. The body of
Brown was taken by his wife to
North Elba, N. Y., for burial.
Cook and Coppee and the two
negroes, Green and Copeland, were
hanged December 16, and Stevens
and Haslett were hanged March 16,
1860.
An investigation of the raid was
subsequently made by a committee
of the United States senate, headed
by Jefferson Davis, afterward presi
dent of the Confederate States:
Of John Brown's family, one son,
Jason Brown, is now living, in Cal
ifornia. He is lehding a hermit's
life land . is in poor circumstances.
Lost Package of Bonds.
Seventy-six thousand dollars ly
ing in an open field for two days,
and nobody stopping to pick it up!
This is what haDDened a short
time ago in Kansas. The state
school fund commissioners had ar
ranged to purchase that amount of
Reno county bonds. The bonds
were sent to be approved, but on
the appointed day they were not
returned. The Kansas City Times
tells the rest of the story :
Superintendent Nelson received
a telegram from the Reno county
commissioners asking why the
bonds had not been sent. Nelson
replied that they had been. The
Reno county people wired back
they had never been received.
that they had no trace of
Nelson called on the ex
press office for an explanation.
The express people searched their
books and said that a package an
swering that description had left
the Tbpeka office for Hutchinson
on Saturday.
The matter began to look se
rious, and the express company in
vestigated its records to ascertain
what messenger was on that train.
A telegram was sent to him asking
if he knew anything of a certain
package bound for Hutchinson
from Topeka.
He replied that he did not know
for sure, but that a little package
blew out of the express car door
as he was bound west on Saturday,
and might have been the one want
ed. He further told the company
to ascertain the value of the pack-
and he would pay, for it out of
his 8 alary. The company wired
back, "Seventy-six thousand dol
lars" and the express messenger's
hair stood on end. '
The first thing be did was to get
a "lay-off" and take the first train
for the station nearest the place
where he remembered the package
disappearing. He went out to the
exact spot, and after hunting for
some time found the missing pack
age in the weeds by the side of the
track, exactly where it had blown.
He bad had the car door open
on account of the heat, and a Kan
sas zephyr came along and whisk
ed the. package out of the open
door. The messenger did not
think it worth stopping the train
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A clergyman ; who has a large
country congregation in southern
Berks reports that Cain Kem merer,
aged 85. is now a mental wreck.
Kemmerer not only was named
Cain, but he gave his only son that
name also. So far as is known
they are the only two people in
East Pennsylvania who are named
after the slayer of his brother Abel.
The preacher was asked whether
be knew of any other odd names of
people in the same region. Hejre
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"inere are two other odd names
that always strike me. One is
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Ananias and the other Sapphira,
but the bearers are not man and
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ipuar Piligree, I think. There jare
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number of other odd Biblical names.
Not long ago a couple brought a
boy to me to be christened and
they bad selected the name of Ju
das. I kindly objected to this, and
told them the history of $he be
trayer of our Lord. Evidently they
did not know this. Thev were
charcoal burners from the back
woods. I told - them not to give
their boy such a name to carry
with him for all the remainder, of
his days. They finally agreed to
call him Joseph, after his father,
and I was glad to go on with the
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deliberately. He said it was short,
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way a few Sundays before the an
nual communion. and sot my prom
ise not to skip or pass him by if he
came to the communion table. I
required the old man publicly to
make his professions and confes
sions of bis religious belief, and. in
addition the old man knelt and re
peated 16 verses of German hymns,
with the statement of the fact that
his name Cain did not indicate any
disrespect for the Bible. "People,"
continued the preacher, "are so used
to those names that they don't give
them a thought. It is only the
stranger that is struck with the
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