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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 19: John Brown.—1859. (search)
in motion; Lib. 29.146. Wendell Phillips attacked it in one of his most trenchant Lib. 29: [158]. Orations—but without avail. A larger agitation was impending, and interest in the brazen image of a Doughface Lib. 30.19, 34. was suddenly transferred to the living likeness of a Man. On the night of October 16-17, 1859, John Brown, with Lib. 29.167; Sanborn's Life of Brown, p. 552. eighteen companions, seized the United States armory at Harper's Ferry, Va. Twenty-four hours later, Col. Robert E. Lee, despatched from Washington with a company of marines, retook the building, and found Brown's band reduced to six, and the chief, a wounded and apparently dying prisoner. The Liberator of October 21 contained this brief editorial reference to an event which filled the South with consternation, and drove to its highest pitch the wave of anti-slavery sentiment in the North: The particulars of a misguided, wild, and apparently insane, though disinterested and well-intended effort by