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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)
viency to the Slave Power. Its removal, as the special anti-slavery duty of the hour, was called for by the abolitionists before Lib. 29.146. it was set up, and petitions were quickly put 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