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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Second Virginia regiment of cavalry, C. S. A. a tribute to its discipline and efficiency, and defiant Resolutions passed by it February 28th, 1865. (search)
the War Department, of date October 19, 1859—Rep. Corn. No. 278, XXXVI Congress, First Session-which document gives also the Provisional Constitution and Ordinance for the People of the United States, devised by Brown. The crime for which Brown was tried, convicted, and executed may be briefly summarized-passing over the troubles in Kansas and on the Missouri borders (in which Brown played no inconsiderable or law-abiding part) growing out of the agitation of the slavery question. In August, 1859, he began his operations to take possession of Harper's Ferry, in Virginia, with the avowed purpose of freeing the slaves. There was an arsenal there, and a large number of guns stored in it. His confederates have been stated as being in number twenty-two besides himself; of these, six were colored men. The venerable Judge Richard Parker, who presided at the trial, writes, of date February 19, 1889, as to this computation: There is at least doubt, as on the trial a witness proved he h
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.39 (search)
the War Department, of date October 19, 1859—Rep. Corn. No. 278, XXXVI Congress, First Session-which document gives also the Provisional Constitution and Ordinance for the People of the United States, devised by Brown. The crime for which Brown was tried, convicted, and executed may be briefly summarized-passing over the troubles in Kansas and on the Missouri borders (in which Brown played no inconsiderable or law-abiding part) growing out of the agitation of the slavery question. In August, 1859, he began his operations to take possession of Harper's Ferry, in Virginia, with the avowed purpose of freeing the slaves. There was an arsenal there, and a large number of guns stored in it. His confederates have been stated as being in number twenty-two besides himself; of these, six were colored men. The venerable Judge Richard Parker, who presided at the trial, writes, of date February 19, 1889, as to this computation: There is at least doubt, as on the trial a witness proved he h