tes that an insurrection has broken out at Harper's Ferry, where an armed band of Abolitionists havek.
It is apprehended that the affair at Harper's Ferry is more serious than our citizens seem wil been received from Monocacy, this side of Harper's Ferry:
The Mail Agent on the western-bound ttelligence was that of blank incredulity.
Harper's Ferry being the seat of a National Armory, at whldren, of whom three sons were with him at Harper's Ferry, two of whom lost their lives there, and ty prophecy, found among the manuscripts at Harper's Ferry — is a brief and clear statement of John Be your own, then make sure work of it.
Harper's Ferry was then a village of some five thousand ihe passenger train that sped eastward from Harper's Ferry, by Brown's permission, in the early morni about his premises; but, if so, why seize Harper's Ferry at all?
At all events, if his doom was ed false; saying he had never sent Cook to Harper's Ferry, as he had stated.
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n starting for Kansas, he moved his family back to their own home at North Elba, where they remain, with his grave in the midst of them.
In 1854, his four elder sons — all by his first wife, and all living in Ohio — determined to migrate to Kansas.
They went thither, primarily, to make that a Free State; secondly, to make homes for themselves and their families.
They went unarmed, having a very inadequate idea of the nature and spirit of the fiend they were defying.
They settled in Lykins County, southern Kansas, about eight miles distant from the present village of Osawatomie, and not far from the Missouri border.
Here they were soon so harassed, threatened, insulted, and plundered, by gangs of marauding ruffians from Missouri, that they found it impossible to remain without arms, and they wrote to their father to procure such as they needed.
He obtained them; and, to make sure work of it, went with them.
Nearly all others went to Kansas in the hope of thereby improving thei
led considerably over Europe, and learned something of the ways of the world.
In 1849, he removed with his family to North Elba, Essex County, New York, to some land given him by Gerrit Smith.
He went thither expressly to counsel and benefit the s and managed the farm of a friend; but, in 1855, on starting for Kansas, he moved his family back to their own home at North Elba, where they remain, with his grave in the midst of them.
In 1854, his four elder sons — all by his first wife, and a
In taking the Shenandoah bridge, they killed one of the insurgents, and captured William Thompson, a neighbor of Brown at Elba, unwounded.
The rifle-works were next attacked, and speedily carried, being defended by five insurgents only.
These atte Thompson, whose husband fell here.
Whether she is a mother or not, I cannot say. All these, my wife included, live at North Elba, Essex County, New York.
I have a middle-aged son, who has been, in some degree, a cripple from his childhood, who wou
