John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry (Oct.-Dec. 1859)
- Charleston Mercury, (Oct. 18):
- "...a serious outbreak"
- Albany (N.Y.) Evening Journal, (Oct. 18):
- "...startling accounts of an 'insurrection' at Harper's Ferry"
- Richmond, (Va.), Whig, (Oct. 18):
- "We believe the affair...to be greatly exaggerated"
- Charleston Mercury (Oct. 19):
- "a concerted movement of abolitionists and their black victims"
- Albany (N.Y.) Evening Journal, (Oct. 19):
- "At last we have more definite information"
- Philadelphia, (Pa.) Public Ledger, (Oct. 19):
- "War has been preached against the Southern institutions from pulpit and from forum."
- Yorkville (S.C.) Enquirer, (Oct. 20):
- "Rumors of...a serious insurrection at Harper's Ferry"
- (Springfield) Illinois State Register, (Oct. 20):
- "Fruits of the Lincoln-Seward Doctrine."
- Albany (N.Y.) Evening Journal, (Oct. 20):
- "If there is now...any wide spread conspiracy among the Slaves, Slaveholders...are its creators"
- Nashville, (Tenn.), Union and American, (Oct. 21)
- "The Republican party of the North is responsible for it."
- Indianapolis (Ind.), Locomotive, (Oct. 22):
- "The most daring attempt that has ever been recorded"
- Nashville, (Tenn.), Republican Banner, (Oct. 22):
- "The causes of the riot, it is impossible now to determine."
- Boston (Mass.), Daily Evening Transcript, (Oct. 24)
- "The panic...was not at all creditable to the people or authorities of the vicinity."
- Richmond, (Va.) Enquirer, (Oct. 25):
- "The Harper's Ferry Invasion as Party Capital"
- Nashville, (Tenn.), Republican Banner, (Oct. 25):
- "The necessity of organizing a national party...on broad national and conservative principles."
- Yorkville (S.C.) Enquirer, (Oct. 27):
- "No event...more startling and suggestive...to the Southern people"
- Albany (N.Y.) Evening Journal, (Oct. 27):
- "The Democratic Press and the Administration make no reply"
- Natchez (MS) Courier, Oct. 28:
- "they should have been tried...for high treason"
- Indianapolis (Ind.), Locomotive, (Oct. 29):
- "Letters have been found, implicating leading Abolitionists"
- Milledgeville (Ga.), Federal Union, (Nov. 1):
- "a regularly concocted, and premeditated attempt of Abolition Fanatics"
- Raleigh, (N.C.), Register, (Nov. 2):
- "rich and powerful men...are known to have aided and abetted in Brown's outrage"
- Albany, N.Y., Evening Journal, (Dec. 1):
- "Instead of being remembered as imprisoned criminals, they will be shrined as martyrs."
- Mobile (AL) Register, (Dec 2):
- "Rightly,...the sword of justice falls upon their heads"
- Raleigh, (N.C.), Register, (Dec. 3):
- "In Noo England,...mock funerals have been celebrated, and all kinds of nonsensically lugubrious displays made."