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The Daily Dispatch: April 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
totype, John Brown, when he proceeded to "occupy and possess" a Southern stronghold. When Gov. Wise heard that Gen. Brown, with pikes and men, had invaded Virginia, he ought to have sent a deputation and inquired what he meant by it.-- Brown would no doubt have informed him that he meant peace, for he always protested that, if the slaveholders would lie still and be plucked without remonstrance, he wouldn't hurt a hair of their heads. The legatee of John Brown who now has possession of Harper's Ferry and Old Point, means no more harm than his testator. He is only adopting means to come into peaceable possession of his estate, and, unless he is resisted as old John was by Gov. Wise, not a drop of blood will be shed. Captain Meigs, U. S. Engineer, who goes out from New York with the peace-making deputation of three thousand, was asked what it meant. He replied, "In about ten days you will know." That is about the length of time of the voyage by sea from New York to Pensacola.