...this attempt to execute an unlawful purpose in Virginia by invasion, involving servile war, was &i\ act of sedition and treason, and criminal in just...public peace and was destructive of human happiness and human lifo. It is a painful reflection. that, after so long an experience-of the bonefrcentworking...

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...acted on earnest though fatally erroneous convictions, yet all good citizens will nevertheless agree that this attempt to execute an unlawful purpose in...public peace and was destructive of human happiness and human life. It is a painful reflection that, after so long an experience of the beneficent working...

...Monthly for March, 1860, p. 378, in a criticism by CE Norton of Redpath's Life of John Brown. volving servile war, was an act of sedition and treason, and...and was destructive of human happiness and life." We lament, the senator continued, " the deaths of so many citizens, slain from an ambush and by surprise."...

...Monthly for March, 1860, p. 378, in a criticism by CE Norton of Redpath's Life of John Brown. volving servile war, was an act of sedition and treason, and...and was destructive of human happiness and life." We lament, the senator continued, " the deaths of so many citizens, slain from an ambush and by surprise."...

...and conclusive proof is impossible. History took its course. Yet it is hard that one madman was able to warp that course, and it is wrong to glorify him...state of Northern feeling, the two candid admissions above quoted cost him the nomination for the presidency. While these scenes were being enacted, a great...

...convictions, yet all good citizens will nevertheless agree, that this attempt to execute an tutlawful purpose in Virginia by invasion, involving servile...public peace and was destructive of human happiness and human life. It is a painful reflection that, after so long an experience of the beneficent working...

...William H. Seward, then the leader of the party, declared that the raid on Harpers Ferry " was an act of treason, and criminal in just the extent that it affected...and was destructive of human happiness and life." Abraham Lincoln compared it to "the many attempts in history at the assassination of kings and emperors,"...

...on earnest though fatally erroneous convictions, yet all good citizens •will nevertheless agree, that this attempt to execute an unlawful purpose in...public peace and was destructive of human happiness and human life. It is a painful reflection that, after so long an experience ef the beneficent working...

...citizens nevertheless agree that this attempt to execute an un10 New York Tribune, March 1, 1860. lawful purpose in Virginia by invasion, involving servile...and was destructive of, human happiness and life." \'It has been noted with increasing admiration that Lincoln and Seward, without consultation and in...