Collection of 1859 newspaper pieces on John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry

Description: A collection of New York newspaper excerpts and clippings regarding John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, its aftermath, his trial, and his execution, including perspectives and reverberations in New York, between October and December 1859. Over 50 pieces in all, including reports, commentary, and published letters, a listing of which is below. Please see the photos for a sense of the substance and condition of the collection. The collection has not been picked over, and is complete as found. There is small tearing, some smudging, some discoloration, and some wear, all consistent with age and use. Most or all of the pieces appear to be from the New York Daily Tribune. If you would like additional photos or information, please ask. Listing of pieces, along with any special condition issues: 1. Report dated Oct. 20, 1859 titled “Latest Dispatches” with one re Harpers Ferry, along with other Brown/Harpers Ferry content 2. Reports titled “Osawatamie Brown” and “Redpath’s Notes on the Insurrection” [Oct. 24, 1859 New York Daily Tribune] 3. Report dated Oct. 25, 1859 titled “Pursuit of Frederick Douglas” noting (among other references to Brown and Harpers Ferry) that “a train of ‘the Underground’” had recently passed through carrying “’chattels personal,’” which “were part of a large shipment which left Alexandria, Va., about the time of the Harpers Ferry insurrection” [Oct. 29, 1859 New York Daily Tribune] 4. Report dated Oct. 27, 1859 titled “The Trial of Capt. Brown,” along with other Brown/Harpers Ferry content [Oct. 28, 1859 New York Daily Tribune] 5. Report dated Oct. 29, 1859 titled “Trial of John Brown” with subheading “The Fourth Day’s Proceedings,” along with other Brown/Harpers Ferry content [Oct. 31, 1859 New York Daily Tribune] 6. Report dated Oct. 29, 1859 titled “The Arrest of Capt. Cook” 7. Report dated Oct. 31, 1859 titled “The Trial of John Brown,” with subheading “Sixth Day” 8. Published letter from Brown dated Nov. 1, 1859, along with other Brown/Harpers Ferry content [Nov. 7, 1859 New York Daily Tribune] [an ink smudge approx. 1 in by 0.5 in, some discoloration] 9. Report dated Nov. 2, 1859 titled “The Invasion of Virginia,” with subheadings “Public Feeling—Sentence of Brown—State of the Prisoner” 10. Report dated Nov. 2, 1859 titled “Brown’s Trial” describing Brown’s sentencing 11. Report dated Nov. 3, 1859 titled “John Brown’s Invasion,” with subheading “A Revival of Wrath” [incomplete] 12. Report dated Nov. 4, 1859 titled “John Brown’s Invasion,” with subheadings “Affairs in Court,” “The Terrors of a Camera,” and “More ‘Forbearance,’” along with other Brown/Harpers Ferry content [Nov. 8, 1859 New York Daily Tribune] 13. Report dated Nov. 4 and 6, 1859 titled “John Brown’s Invasion,” with subheadings “About Brown,” “The Trials of the Accused,” “Baffled Cavalry,” “Public Precautions,” “Contemplated Seizure of Northern Cooperators,” “What Brown’s Plan Really Was,” “The Latest Breeze,” “A New Prisoner,” “Brown’s Property,” and “South Versus North” [Nov. 9, 1859 New York Daily Tribune] 14. Brief telegraph dated Nov. 4, 1859 titled “John Brown’s Counsel,” along with other Brown/Harpers Ferry content, including under headline “The Plea of Insanity May Save John Brown’s Life” and “Fair Judgment for Head and Heart of Godly John Brown” 15. Report dated Nov. 7, 1859 titled “John Brown’s Invasion” 16. Report titled “The Virginia Insurrection,” with subheading “A Female Sympathizer” (a Mrs. Spring of Boston whose arrival was met with suspicion) and “The Proposed Visit of Mrs. Brown” [approx. Nov. 8, 1859] 17. Report dated Nov. 8, 1959 titled “John Brown’s Invasion,” with subheading “The Trials at Charlestown,” along with a poem titled “How Old Brown Took Harper’s Ferry, A Ballad of the Times” [Nov. 12, 1859 New York Daily Tribune] 18. Report dated Nov. 14, 1859 titled “John Brown’s Invasion,” with subheading “Personal Portraits,” along with other Brown/Harpers Ferry content [Nov. 17, 1859 New York Daily Tribune] 19. Report dated Nov. 15, 1859 and titled “John Brown’s Invasion,” with subheading “Other Portraits,” and report dated Nov. 17, 1859 titled “Another Fright at Charlestown,” with subheadings “The Virginians in Distress,” “A Painful Rumor,” “Old John Brown to be Rescued,” “Soldiers and Cannon Set For,” and “Alexandria, Richmond and Charlestown in Arms” 20. Published letters from Brown dated Nov. 17, 1859 and Nov. 12, 1859 21. Reports dated Nov. 17 and 18, 1859 titled “John Brown’s Invasion,” with subheadings “More Tribulation,” “The Negroes,” “The Local Press Again,” “Mr. Griswold and His $250 Fee,” along with other Brown/Harpers Ferry content 22. Report dated Nov. 19, 1859 titled “John Brown’s Invasion” along with other Brown/Harpers Ferry content 23. Telegraph dated Nov. 19, 1859 titled “Boston Caring for Brown’s Family. Public Meeting Held for Their Relief,” along with other Brown/Harpers Ferry content [New York Daily Tribune] 24. Reports dated Nov. 19 and 20, 1859 titled “The Virginia Panic,” with subheadings “Reported Burning of Farm Produce,” “Pretended Letter in Cipher to Brown,” “Another Attack Expected,” “All Reports Pronounced Humbugs,” “Troops Moving and More Called For,” and “No Enemy Yet Found” 25. Report dated Nov. 21, 1859 titled “John Brown’s Invasion,” along with other Brown/Harpers Ferry content [Nov. 24, 1859 New York Daily Tribune] 26. Report dated Nov. 23, 1859 titled “John Brown’s Invasion,” with subheadings “John Brown’s Last Appeal to a Court” and “The Virginia Fright,” along with other Brown/Harpers Ferry content [Nov. 23, 1859 New York Daily Tribune] 27. Report dated Nov. 23, 1859 titled “John Brown’s Invasion” with subheadings “Cheering Prospects” and “Brown’s Execution,” along with other Brown/Harpers Ferry content [Nov. 28, 1859 New York Daily Tribune] [some small red splotches that may be wax, which barely impact legibility] 28. Report titled “The Brown Plot” and describing the background and preparation for Brown’s raid [Nov. 28, 1859 New York Daily Tribune] 29. Report dated Dec. 4, 1859 titled “The Virginia Trouble,” with subtitled “The Excitement Subsiding,” “Departure of the Military,” “Religious Services,” and “A Suspicious Character“ [Dec. 7, 1859 New York Daily Tribune] 30. Report dated Dec. 2, 1859 titled “Anti-Slavery in Lawrence [Kansas]—Resolution in Reference to Capt. John Brown” 31. Piece dated Dec. 2, 1859 titled “Victor Hugo on John Brown” 32. Report dated Dec. 3, 1859 titled “The Execution of Capt. Brown,” along with other Brown/Harpers Ferry content [Dec. 5, 1859 New York Daily Tribune] 33. Report dated Dec. 3, 1859 titled “John Brown’s Invasion” and subtitled “Further Interesting Incidents of the Execution,” along with other Brown/Harpers Ferry content [Dec. 6, 1859 New York Daily Tribune] 34. Report dated Dec. 3, 1859 titled “John Brown’s Invasion” and subtitled “The Fugitives—Cooke and Virginia in Kansas,” along with other Brown/Harpers Ferry content [Dec. 7, 1859 New York Daily Tribune] 35. Letters to the editor dated Dec. 3 and 6, 1859 under titles “Monument to John Brown” and “A Defense of the Memory of John Brown,” along with other Brown/Harpers Ferry content [a tear to the clipping and a brown splotch (perhaps wax) that does not obscure Brown/Harpers Ferry content] 36. Report dated Dec. 5, 1859 titled “John Brown’s Invasion,” with subheadings “The Martial Law Illegal—Reaction Against Wise” and “The John Brown Fund,” along with other Brown/Harpers Ferry content [Dec. 8, 1859 New York Daily Tribune] 37. Various content under headline “John Brown’s Invasion,” including letter to the editor of the New York Tribune titled “John Brown and the Union” and “The Harper’s Ferry Insurrection” from the London Times [Dec. 10, 1859 New York Daily Tribune] 38. Piece dated Dec. 12, 1859 titled “The John Brown Fund” 39. Report dated Dec. 16, 1859 titled “The Charlestown Executions,” with subheadings “Great Influx of Strangers,” “A Grand Military Parade,” “The Prisoners Preparing for Death,” “Attempted Escape of Cook and Coppic,” and “Their Discovery by a Sentinel,” along with other Brown/Harpers Ferry content [Dec. 17, 1859 New York Daily Tribune] 40. Various content, including under title “From Charlestown” (report re prisoners) and “Sympathy with Brown’s Family” [Dec. 16, 1859 New York Daily Tribune] 41. Report titled “The Funeral of Cook” [Dec. 21, 1859 New York Daily Tribune] 42. Report titled “Brooklyn Items,” with subheadings “The Funeral of John E. Cook,” “Verses Written by Cook,” and “Visit of Deceased’s Father” [Dec. 20, 1859 New York Daily Tribune] 43. Letter titled “Capt. John Brown,” seeking to set the record straight about the “history and character” of Brown, describing Brown’s biography; signed “A Pennsylvania Republican” [particularly wrinkled and some tearing] 44. Piece called “Who Taught John Brown?” arguing that it was Virginia itself that had inspired his actions 45. Piece titled “The Warning to Secretary Floyd” re an anonymous letter to Gov. Floyd dated August 1859 giving advance notice of “secret association” led by Brown that intended “the liberation of the slaves at the south by a general insurrection” and would strike at Harpers Ferry 46. Item re conversation between Brown and Gov. Wise, in which Wise told Brown he should prepare for death, and Brown responded that Wise, though he might live fifteen years, would have a good deal to answer for, and had better prepare now too, and re a description of the appearance of the prisoners from The Baltimore Exchange (hostile to Brown) 47. Item re a note Brown gave to a jail guard in response to the guard’s request for an autograph: “I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think, vainly flattered myself that, without very much bloodshed, it might be done.” 48. Item re “horror and indignation” of troops marching “while Brown stood with the halter round his neck,” and item re Ralph Waldo Emerson delivering essay on “Morals” alluding to Brown 49. Item re arrest of Col. Baylor (led attack on Brown) at Brown’s execution, who denounced the whole military array as a “Disunion movement” by Wise, “who wanted to be President of a Southern Confederacy” 50. Piece titled “Explanatory Statement of Mr. Giddings” from late Oct. 1859 regarding a speech by Joshua R. Giddings touching on Brown 51. Piece titled “John Brown’s ‘Secretary of State’ in Texas” 52. Brief items, including: “The brother of the colored man, Copeland, telegraphed to Gov. Wise, asking if he might have his body. The reply was that he might have it if he would send a white man for it. Wise could not spare to insult a negro, even upon such an occasion” 53. Three other partial or tangential clippings

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