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James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 7: the blow struck. (search)
utions levied on the Citizens! Troops despatched against the insurgents from Washington and Baltimore! Such were the headings of the first telegraphic reports of John Brown's brave blow at American Slavery. Before briefly describing the events that they foreshadow, it is necessary to speak of the place where they occurred. The standard Virginia authority of the day thus writes: Harper's Ferry is situated in Jefferson County, Virginia, at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers, on a point just opposite the gap through which the united streams pass the Blue Ridge on their way toward the ocean. The Ridge here is about twelve hundred feet in height, showing bare, precipitous cliffs on either side on the river, and exhibiting some of the most beautiful and imposing natural scenery to be found in the country. The town was originally built on two streets stretching along a narrow shelf between the base of the bluff and the rivers, meeting at the point at nearly