A voice from Harper's Ferry; a narrative of events at Harper's Ferry : $b with incidents prior and subsequent to its capture by Captain Brown and his menAnderson, Osborne P. (Osborne Perry)
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A voice from Harper's Ferry; a narrative of events at Harper's Ferry : $b with incidents prior and subsequent to its capture by Captain Brown and his men
Anderson, Osborne P. (Osborne Perry)
Brown, John, 1800-1859; Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) -- History -- John Brown's Raid, 1859
I yesterday received a letter from John Smith, containing nothing of
any particular importance, however, so I will keep it until you come
up.
Respectfully,
J. HENRIE.
CHAMBERSBURG, Pa., Friday, Sept. 16, 1859, }
11 o’clock, A. M. }
J. SMITH AND SONS,--I have just time to say that Mr. Anderson arrived
in the train five minutes ago.
Respectfully,
J. HENRIE.
P. S. I have not had time to talk with him.
J. H.
A little while prior to this, * * went down to ----, to accompany
Shields Green, whereupon a meeting of Capt. Brown, Kagi, and other
distinguished persons, convened for consultation.
On the 20th, four days after I reached this outpost, Capt. Brown,
Watson Brown, Kagi, myself, and several friends, held another meeting,
after which, on the 24th, I left Chambersburg for Kennedy Farm. I
walked alone as far as Middletown, a town on the line between Maryland
and Pennsylvania, and it being then dark, I found Captain Brown
awaiting with his wagon. We set out directly, and drove until nearly
day-break the next morning, when we reached the Farm in safety. As a
very necessary precaution against surprise, all the colored men at the
Ferry who went from the North, made the journey from the Pennsylvania
line in the night. I found all the men concerned in the undertaking
on hand when I arrived, excepting Copeland, Leary, and Merriam; and
when all had collected, a more earnest, fearless, determined company
of men it would be difficult to get together. There, as at Chatham, I
saw the same evidence of strong and commanding intellect, high-toned
morality, and inflexibility of purpose in the men, and a profound and
holy reverence for God, united to the most comprehensive, practical,
systematic philanthropy, and undoubted bravery in the patriarch
leader, brought out to view in lofty grandeur by the associations
and surroundings of the place and the occasion. There was no milk
and water sentimentality--no offensive contempt for the negro, while
working in his cause; the pulsations of each and every heart beat in
harmony for the suffering and pleading slave. I thank God that I have
been permitted to realize to its furthest, fullest extent, the moral,
mental, physical, social harmony of an Anti-Slavery family, carrying
out to the letter the principles of its antetype, the Anti-Slavery
cause. In John Brown’s house, and in John Brown’s presence, men
from widely different parts of the continent met and united into one
company, wherein no hateful prejudice dared intrude its ugly self--no
ghost of a distinction found space to enter.
CHAPTER VI.
LIFE AT KENNEDY FARM.
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