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Aaron C. Stevens (search for this): chapter 2.43
ever did. Bystander. You did in one instance, at least. Stevens. (To the inquirer, interrupting Brown.) You are right, sirBrown.) Captain, the gentleman is right. Bystander. (To Stevens.) Where did you come from? Stevens. I lived in Ashtabula Stevens. I lived in Ashtabula County, Ohio. Mr. B. How recently did you leave Ashtabula County? Stevens. Some months ago. I never resided there any lengr. V. How far did you live from Jefferson? Capt. B. (To Stevens.) Be very cautious, Stevens, about an answer to that; it mStevens, about an answer to that; it might commit some friend. I would not answer it at all. Stevens, who had been groaning considerably, as if the exertion neStevens, who had been groaning considerably, as if the exertion necessary to conversation seriously affected him, seemed content to abide by the captain's advice. He turned partially over, win Southern Ohio? Capt. B. Not very much. Mr. V. (To Stevens.) Were you at the convention last June? Stevens. I was.Stevens. I was. Mr. V. (To Capt. Brown.) You made a speech there? Capt. B. I did, sir. Bystander. Did you ever live in ~Washington
E. B. Stuart (search for this): chapter 2.43
ght, and that others will do right who interfere with you, at any time, and all times. I hold that the golden rule--Do unto others as you would that others should do unto you --applies to all who would help others to gain their liberty. Lieutenant Stuart. But you don't believe in the Bible? Capt. B. Certainly I do. Mr. V. Where did your men come from? Did some of them come from Ohio? Capt. B. Some of them. Mr. V. From the Western Reserve, of course! None came from Southern Ohi and had consented to surrender for the benefit of others, and not for my own benefit. (Several persons vehemently denied this statement. Without noticing the interruption, the old man continued :) I believe the Major here (pointing to Lieut. Stuart) would not have been alive but for me. I might have killed him just as easy as I could kill a mosquito, when he came in ; but I supposed that he came in only to receive our surrender. There had been long and loud calls of surrender from us,
Joshua R. Giddings (search for this): chapter 2.43
rlin rescuers. I was sick part of the time I was in Ohio. I had the ague. I was part of the 41me in Ashtabula county. Mr. V. Did you see any thing of Joshua R. Giddings there? Capt. B. I did meet him. Mr. V. Did you converse with him? Capt. B. I did. I would not tell you, of course, any thing that would implicate MMr. Giddings; but I certainly — net with him, and had a conversation with him. Mr. V. About that rescue case? Capt. B. Yes, I did. I heard him express his opinion upon it very freely and frankly. Mr. V. Justifying it? Capt. B. Yes, sir. I do not compromise him, certainly, in saying that. A Bystander. Did you go out t of the Emigrant Aid Society? Capt. B. No, sir; I went out under the auspices of John Brown, and nobody else. Mr. V. Will you answer this? Did you talk to Giddings about your expedition here? Capt. B. No, sir! I won't answer that, because a denial of it I would not make; and to make an affidavit of it, I should be a gre
John Brown (search for this): chapter 2.43
inquisitors. As soon as it was known that John Brown was not dead, and that three of his followerio. The result of these visits was one of John Brown's greatest victories. From the three publisublication, some, who subsequently eulogized John Brown, with fervor and surpassing eloquence, as wwith the gallows staring him full in the face, Brown lay on the floor, and, in reply to every questwho furnished money for your expedition? Capt. Brown. I furnished most of it myself. I cannot ilast June? Stevens. I was. Mr. V. (To Capt. Brown.) You made a speech there? Capt. B. I dioot any body; but when they were fired upon by Brown's men, and one of them had been killed, and an were obliged to return the compliment. Captain Brown insisted, with some warmth, that the marinrm any one not in arms against us. Q. Well, Brown, suppose you had every nigger in the United Strate either the man or the conspiracy. Cap. John Brown is as brave and resolute a man as ever heade[11 more...]
Sharpe (search for this): chapter 2.43
like of us. Who, then, were his constituents? Read his words, understandingly, and you will find out. In his case there is no idle eloquence. Truth is the inspirer and earnestness the polisher of his sentences. He could afford the loss of his Sharpe's rifles while he retained the faculty of speech-a rifle of far straighter sight and longer range. It is seldom that men of views so opposite meet together, either in the events themselves, or in their subsequent views of those events, as met estions were now put in by almost every one in the room. Q. Where did you get arms to obtain possession of the armory? Capt. B. I bought them. Q. In what state? Capt. B. That I would not state. Q. How many guns? Capt. B. Two hundred Sharpe's rifles, and two hundred revolvers -what is called the Massachusetts Arms Company's revolvers — a little under the navy size. Q. Why did you not take that swivel you left in the house? Capt. B. I had no occasion for it. It was given to me
Gerrit Smith (search for this): chapter 2.43
n, and the only thing that prompted me to come here. Bystander. Why did you do it secretly? Capt. B. Because I thought that necessary to success, and for no other reason. Bystander. And you think that honorable, do you? Have you read Gerrit Smith's last letter? Capt. B. What letter do you mean? Bystander. The New York Herald of yesterday, in speaking of this affair, mentions a letter in which he says, that it is folly to attempt to strike the shackles off the slave by the force he direction of negro emancipation will be an insurrection in the South. Capt. B. I have not seen a New York Herald for some days past; but I presume, from your remarks about the gist of the letter, that I should concur with it. I agree with Mr. Smith, that moral suasion is hopeless. I don't think the people of the Slave States will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light until some other argument is resorted to than moral suasion. Mr. T. Did you expect a general rising of
Biggs (search for this): chapter 2.43
the negro, (Heywood.) Mr. V. What time did you commence your organization over in Canada? Capt. B. It occurred about two years ago. If I remember right, it was, I think, in 1858. Mr. V. Who was the secretary? Capt. B. That I would not tell if I recollected; but I do not remember. I think the officers were elected in May, 1858. I may answer incorrectly, but not intentionally. My head is a little confused by wounds, and my memory of dates and such like is somewhat confused. Dr. Biggs. Were you in the party at Dr. Kennedy's house? Capt. B. I was the head of that party. I occupied the house to mature my plans. I would state here that I have not been in Baltimore to purchase percussion caps. Dr. B. What was the number of men at Kennedy's? Capt. B. I decline to answer that. Dr. B. Who lanced that woman's neck on the hill? Capt. B. I did. I have sometimes practised in surgery, when I thought it a matter of humanity or of necessity — when there was no one else t
Sherrod (search for this): chapter 2.43
t. B. And I think you are fanatical. Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad; and you are mad. Q. Was your only object to free the negroes? Capt. B. Absolutely our only object. Bystander. But you went and took Col. Washington's silver and Match. Capt B. O, yes; we intended freely to have appropriated the property of slaveholders, to carry out our object. It was for that, and only that; and with no design to enrich ourselves with any plunder whatever. Q. Did you know Sherrod in Kansas? I understand you killed him. Capt. B. I killed no man except in fair fight. I fought at Black Jack, and at Ossawatomie; and if I killed any body, it was at one of those places. During this conversation, the wounded Liberators, we are told by pro-slavery writers, lay stretched on miserable shake-downs. John Brown's long gray hair was matted and tangled, and his hands and clothes all smooched and smeared with blood, and begrimed with dirt — the effect of continued exposure
June (search for this): chapter 2.43
far from Wheeling. Mr. V. Have you been in Ohio this summer? Capt. B. Yes, sir. Mr. V. How lately? Capt. B. I passed through to Pittsburg on my way, in June. Mr. V. Were you at any county or state fair there? Capt. B. I was not there since June. Senator M. Did you consider this a military organization in this a boy. His father was Henry Brown, of Irish or Scotch descent. The family was very low. Mr. V. Have you ever been in Portage County? Capt. B. I was there in June last. Mr. V. When in Cleveland, did you attend the Fugitive Slave Law Convention there? Capt. B. No. I was there about the time of the sitting of the court e Free States. Mr. V. But are you not personally acquainted in Southern Ohio? Capt. B. Not very much. Mr. V. (To Stevens.) Were you at the convention last June? Stevens. I was. Mr. V. (To Capt. Brown.) You made a speech there? Capt. B. I did, sir. Bystander. Did you ever live in ~Washington city? Capt. B. I
May, 1858 AD (search for this): chapter 2.43
milies, and the community at large. Mr. V. Did you not shoot a negro on the bridge, or did not some of your party? Capt. B. I knew nothing of the shooting of the negro, (Heywood.) Mr. V. What time did you commence your organization over in Canada? Capt. B. It occurred about two years ago. If I remember right, it was, I think, in 1858. Mr. V. Who was the secretary? Capt. B. That I would not tell if I recollected; but I do not remember. I think the officers were elected in May, 1858. I may answer incorrectly, but not intentionally. My head is a little confused by wounds, and my memory of dates and such like is somewhat confused. Dr. Biggs. Were you in the party at Dr. Kennedy's house? Capt. B. I was the head of that party. I occupied the house to mature my plans. I would state here that I have not been in Baltimore to purchase percussion caps. Dr. B. What was the number of men at Kennedy's? Capt. B. I decline to answer that. Dr. B. Who lanced that woman
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