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Chapter 8: sword in hand.
The train that left Harper's Ferry carried a panic to Virginia, Maryland, and Washington with it. The passengers, taking all the paper they could find, wrote accounts of the Insurrection, which they threw from the windows as the train rushed onward.
At daylight the news spread in Harper's Ferry that the town was in the hands of Abolitionists and the slaves.
A terrible panic ensued.
Report magnified the numbers of the Invaders forty-fold.
The public buildingse telegraph and railroad tracks were under repair; and the Cabinet at Washington, the Governor of Virginia, and the City of Baltimore, had ordered troops to hasten on to subdue the Liberators.
The last militia force, under Captain Simms, from Maryland, arrived at five o'clock in the afternoon; and with the other companies already there, completely surrounded the Armory buildings.
He arrived in time to prevent another cowardly murder; for the Virginia gentlemen, afraid to attack the engine ho
Chapter 9: fallen among thieves.
Up to the close of Monday evening, John Brown had successfully maintained his position against the united forces of Virginia and Maryland.
With his three surviving followers he was now prepared to oppose the Nation ; and, knowing no fear but the failure to do his duty, he prepared to resist her forces also.
Hemmed in by an overwhelming force, with the knowledge that, when the morrow's sun should rise, he must fall before its physical superiority, he nevthe public arms.
He had army and ammunition enough reshipped from Kansas.
He only intended to make the first demonstration at this point, when he expected to receive a rapid increase of the allies from Abolitionists every where settled through Maryland and Virginia, sufficient to take possession of both States, with all of the negroes they could capture.
He did not expect to encounter the Federal troops.
He had only a general idea as to his course; it was to be a general south-west course th