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Valley Spirit, November 9, 1859Go To Page : 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
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The Harper's Ferry Insurrection
(Column 2)Summary: More about the Harper's Ferry trials, including Brown's sentencing and the trials of Coppee and Cook.
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Further Developments of the "Irrepressible Conflict"
(Column 1)Summary: More documents found in the possession of the Harper's Ferry conspirators. These show that Seward and his aides were linked to the insurrection. The documents also include the proceedings of the Chatham Convention (1858), and letters from Brown to Kagi and others, written while Kagi was in Chambersburg.
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Description of Page: Columns 1-2 are a continuation of the letters and documents about Harper's Ferry that began on page 2. |
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From Mississippi
(Column 4)Summary: Letter about the response in Mississippi to Harper's Ferry. Likens the impact of Harper's Ferry to a "Fire bell in the night."
Trailer: J. N.
Origin of Article: Morning Pennsylvanian
The Legislature of Tennessee on the Harper's Ferry Affair
(Column 3)Summary: Resolution introduced into Tennessee legislature in regards to Harper's Ferry. The article also accuses Seward of libeling the South and declares any cooperation with the Black Republicans to be an insult to the state.
Patriotic Letter from Secretary Cobb
(Column 2)Summary: Letter from Howell Cobb to a Democratic meeting in New York. He blames prominent Republicans for the Harper's Ferry insurrection and warns Democrats that they must "arrest and roll back the waves of sectional controversy which have brought us to the verge of dissolution and ruin."
The Harper's Ferry Insurrection
(Column 5)Summary: Short report on the trials and the climate of Charlestown.
Origin of Article: Baltimore American
Antecedents of Ossawatomie Brown
(Column 5)Summary: Reports of Browns actions in Kansas earlier in the 1850s.
Origin of Article: Evansville Enquirer
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Forty Years Ago?
(Column 1)Summary: Someone gave the Spirit an issue of the Franklin Republican from 1820.
A False Statement
(Column 2)Summary: Disputes reports in several papers that Cook was beaten after he was captured. Actually, he was treated quite fairly.
How We Feel!
(Column 2)Summary: Response to an article in the New York Tribune which said that Brown and his followers aroused anti-slavery sentiment in Chambersburg by appealing to the religious nature of the people. The Spirit rejects this ridiculous report, saying that the Tribune correspondent doesn't know what he is talking about.
Origin of Article: New York Tribune
$400 Dollars Reward!
(Column 1)Summary: Report of breakout from Chambersburg jail; description of the criminals.
(Names in announcement: DavidLewis, FelixMcGuire, JohnMyers, Rodney)
Court Proceedings
(Column 3)Summary: Proceedings for October Court. Assault and Battery, Fornication, Burglary, Arson, etc. Harper was a black man.
(Names in announcement: JudgeKimmel, Orr, Weber, JohnWilliams, FerdinandEvans, Mrs.Williams, AppletonEvans, JacobWies, ThomasWhitman, WilliamRupert, MissDysart, JamesDysart, SamuelGriggs, ThomasHarris, JosephHarper, DavidMontgomery, JohnSmith, PeterSchuman, JosephFunk, JohnSnyder, WilliamChrist, ElizabethSnyder, CharlesStine, JohnReilly, A.K.McClure, GeorgeAston, DavidOaks, WilliamSeibert, MichaelClark, JoshuaPhillips)
Married
(Column 5)Summary: Married November 1.
(Names in announcement: Rev.S.McHenry, JohnWyncoop, Nancy JaneCramer)
Married
(Column 5)Summary: Married on October 27.
(Names in announcement: Rev.S.McHenry, S.E.Smith, S.A.Crofford)
Married
(Column 5)Summary: Married on November 3.
(Names in announcement: Rev.S.McHenry, GeorgeEtter, Mary AnnClapsaddle)
Married
(Column 5)Summary: Married on November 3.
(Names in announcement: Rev.S.McHenry, JohnWilkeson, SusanGrossman)
Married
(Column 5)Summary: Married on November 1.
(Names in announcement: Rev.E.Bridenbaugh, ChristianLesher, SusanOmwake)
Married
(Column 5)Summary: Married on November 1.
(Names in announcement: Rev.JamesKelly, PeterFuchs, MaryMartin)
Deaths
(Column 5)Summary: Thomas, aged 78, died on October 31.
(Names in announcement: JohnThomas)
Deaths
(Column 5)Summary: Simpson, aged 15, died on October 29.
(Names in announcement: JamesSimpson)
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