[326] The Court, as usual, refused the request, and referred, with some asperity, to the recent speech of the plain-spoken prisoner. “This term,” said the Judge, “will very soon end; and it is my duty to endeavor to get through with all the cases if possible, in justice to the prisoners, and in justice to the State. The trial must proceed.” Mr. Hoyt, after objecting to certain papers, (which were withdrawn,) and asking certain questions relative to the witnesses he had summoned, called on John P. Dangerfield, of Harper's Ferry, to testify. From the evidence for the defence, it is unnecessary to quote more than those passages wool refer to the object that John Brown had in view, and a few brief incidents of the conflict not elsewhere noted: John P. Dangerfield. Was a prisoner in the hands of Capt. Brown at the engine house. About a dozen black men were there, armed with pikes, which they carried most awkwardly and unwillingly. During the firing they were lying about asleep, some of them having crawled under the engines. From the treatment of Capt. Brown he had no personal fear of him or his men during his confinement. Saw one of John Brown's sons shot in the engine house; he fell back, exclaiming, “It's all up with me,” and died in a few moments. Another son came in and commenced to vomit blood; he was wounded while out with Mr. Kitnzuller, (carrying a flag of truce.) The prisoner frequently complained that his men were shot down while carrying a flag of truce. Mr. Hunter again tried to arrest the production of evidence so disgraceful to the Virginians; but even the barbarous code of his native State did not prevent the presentation of proof tending to show the absence of malice. The witness was allowed to proceed:
Brown promised safety to all descriptions of property except slave property. After the first attack Capt. Brown cried out to surrender. Saw Brown wounded on the hip by a thrust from a sabre, and several
