Report [of] the Select Committee of the Senate Appointed to Inquire Into the Late Invasion and Seizure of the Public Property at Harper's FerryVerlag nicht ermittelbar, 1860 - 326 strani |
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acquaintance afterwards agent Andrew Hunter Answer armory armory gate arms ASHTABULA COUNTY asked Boston called Canada West Captain Brown CHAIRMAN Chambersburg Chatham citizens COLLAMER Colonel committee adjourned committee met pursuant connected contributions convention conversation Cook DAVIS dollars DOOLITTLE engine-house F. B. Sanborn FITCH Forbes free-State friends gentlemen give hands Harper's Ferry heard inquiry invasion Iowa Jefferson county John Brown Kagi killed knew lectures letter Lieutenant Green Mason Massachusetts State Kansas Meriam Missouri mittee Monday National Kansas Committee negroes never o'clock object Ohio papers party persons pistols plans possession Present-Messrs purpose Question railroad Realf received recollect referred remember reside Richard Realf school-house secretary Senate sent Sharp's rifles slavery slaves Smith spoken Stearns suppose sworn and examined Tabor tell Territory testimony tion told Virginia wagon watch-house Watson Brown Wilson WITNESS York
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Stran 20 - The United States shall guaranty to every State in this Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.
Stran 3 - Union ; the character and extent of such organization ; whether any citizens of the United States, not present, were implicated therein or accessory thereto, ~by contributions of money, arms, munitions, or otherwise...
Stran 70 - ... of any such apparent confliction until my attention was called to it, and I do not suppose that a man in my then circumstances should be superhuman in respect to the exact purport of every word he might utter. What I said to Governor Wise was spoken with all the deliberation I was master of, and was intended for truth ; and what I said in court was equally intended for truth, but required a more full explanation than I then gave.
Stran 253 - ... of Kansas. He has been in Canada during the winter drilling the negroes there, and they are only waiting his word to start for the South to assist the slaves. They have one of their leading men (a white man) in an armory in Maryland — where it is situated I have not been able to learn. As soon as everything is ready, those of their number who are in the Northern States and Canada are to come in small companies to their rendezvous, which is in the mountains of Virginia.
Stran 61 - ... ordinances; also every citizen and soldier, before being fully recognized as such, shall do the same. Schedule. • The president of this convention shall convene, immediately on the adoption of this instrument, a convention of all such persons as shall have given their adherence by signature to the constitution, who shall proceed to fill, by election, all offices specially named in said constitution, the president of this convention presiding, and issuing commissions to such officers elect;...
Stran 61 - The foregoing articles shall not be construed so as in any way to encourage the overthrow of any State Government or of the General Government of the United States, and look to no dissolution of the Union, but simply to amendment and repeal, and our flag shall be the same that our fathers fought under in the Revolution.
Stran 42 - Colonel : I have the honor to report, for the information of the Secretary of War, that on arriving here on the night of the 17th instant, in obedience to Special Orders No.
Stran 44 - South ; and acknowledges that he has been disappointed' in his expectations of aid from the black as well as white population, both in the southern and northern States. The blacks whom he forced from their homes in this neighborhood, as far as I could learn, gave him no voluntary assistance. The servants of Messrs. Washington and Allstadt, retained at the armory, took no part in the conflict, and those carried to Maryland returned to their homes as soon as released. The result proves that the plan...
Stran 63 - Oath. Every officer, civil or military, connected with this organization shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, make solemn oath or affirmation to abide by and support this Provisional Constitution and these ordinances; also every citizen and soldier, before being fully recognized as such, shall do the same.
Stran 99 - And if any hostile action were taken against us, either by the militia of the States or by the armies of the United States, we purposed to defeat first the militia, and next, if possible, the troops of the United States; and then organize the free blacks under the provisional constitution, which would carve out for the locality of its jurisdiction all that mountainous region in which the blacks were to be established, in which they were to be taught the useful and mechanical arts, and all the business...