Named Entity Results, John Brown

ve, have any serious hope of conquering the South. But they do hope to hold their present line — to make Maryland a Yankee State--to keep a firm grasp upon Alexandria — to run the kingdom of abolition deep into the heart of Virginia — to make Virginia the border State, in any negotiation for peace which they may hereafter present — to render negro property valueless in that portion of the State--to drive slavery gradually back, according to the plan of Col. Hugh Forees, as developed after John Brown's unsuccessful attempt to produce an insurrection — to render Virginia a Yankee State, and to clear it entirely of negroes, as they will do in less than thirty years, if they be allowed to make it a frontier State There lies our great danger, and we deem it highly proper to point it out. It is the fear of this consummation that renders the whole population of Virginia so uneasy. It is this which induced them to hope — while there was yet room for hope — that an advance would be mad

The Santa Rosa victory. correspondence between General Bragg and Col. Brown. The following is the correspondence between Gen. Bragg, at Pensacola, and Col. Brown, Commandant at Fort Pickens, alluded to briefly heretofore in connection with the Confederate victory on Santa Rosa Island: Headquarters Dep't Florida, Fort Pickens, Oct. 9, 1861. Sir: --I observe this morning, for the first time, a yellow flag hoisted over a large building directly in front of my batteries. I also Col. Brown, Commandant at Fort Pickens, alluded to briefly heretofore in connection with the Confederate victory on Santa Rosa Island: Headquarters Dep't Florida, Fort Pickens, Oct. 9, 1861. Sir: --I observe this morning, for the first time, a yellow flag hoisted over a large building directly in front of my batteries. I also understand that officers' wives and children are in the adjoining buildings. I do not make war on the sick, women, or children. The buildings will necessarily be exposed to my fire should there be a bombardment, and they are besides subject under this flag to be used as protection to any of your troops that may take shelter behind or before them. I therefore give you this notice — that the sick, women, and the children, may be removed, so that if fired on the responsibility may rest w