The tribunal: responses to John Brown and the Harpers Ferry Raid

pt. I. In his own words. "Sambo's mistakes," 1848 "League of Gileadites," January 15, 1851 "Dear wife and children, everyone," June 1856 "Old Brown's farewell," April 1857 "To Mr. Henry L. Stearns," July 15, 1857 "Provisional constitution and ordinances for the people of the United States," May 8, 1858 "A declaration of liberty by the representatives of the slave population of the United States of America," 1859 "Interview with Senator Mason and others," October 18, 1859 "Last address to the Virginia court," November 2, 1859 "Prison letters," October-December, 1859

pt. II. Northern responses. Horace Greeley, "Tribune editorial," October 19, 1859 Boston Courier, "A lesson for the people," October 20, 1859 Illinois State Register, "The 'irrepressible conflict,'", October 20, 1859 Anonymous, "To the clerk of court, Charlestown," October 23, 1859, and "To friend wise," December 2, 1859 The Patriot, "The Harper's Ferry Affair," October 26, 1859 Lydia Maria Child, "Dear Captain Brown," October 26, 1859, and "The hero's heart," January 26, 1860 E.B., "To John Brown," October 27, 1859 Joshua R. Giddings, "The Harper's Ferry insurrection," October 28, 1859 Friends' Review, "The riot at Harper's Ferry," October 29, 1859 Salmon P. Chase, "To Joseph H. Barrett," October 29, 1859 New York Evening Post, "A new version of an old song," October 29, 1859 Henry Ward Beecher, "The nation's duty to slavery," October 30, 1859 Henry David Thoreau, "A plea for Captain John Brown," October 30, 1859, and "The last days of John Brown," July 4, 1860 Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Courage," November 8, 1859, and "Remarks at a meeting for the relief of the family of John Brown," November 18, 1859 Frederick Douglass, "Capt. John Brown not insane," November 1859 Edmund Clarence Stedman, "How old Brown took Harper's Ferry," November 12, 1859 William Dean Howells, "Old Brown," November 1859 John Andrew, "Speech at Tremont Temple," November 18, 1859 Charles Langston, "Letter to the editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer," November 18, 1859, and "Speech in Cleveland," December 2, 1859 Theodore Parker, "To Francis Jackson," November 24, 1859 Henry Clarke Wright, The Natick Resolution, December 1859 Albany Evening Journal, "The execution of John Brown," December 1, 1859 "Pittsburgh, Detroit, and Cleveland resolutions," November 29 and December 2, 1859 Henry Highland Garnet, "Martyr's day," December 2, 1859 J. Sella Martin and William Lloyd Garrison, "Speeches at Tremont Temple," December 2, 1859 Fales Henry Newhall, "The conflict in America," December 4, 1859 Anne Lynch Botta, "To Henry Whitney Bellows," December 6, 1859 Wendell Phillips, "Eulogy for John Brown," December 8, 1859 Edward Everett and Caleb Cushing, "Speeches at Faneuil Hall," December 8, 1859 Charles Eliot Norton, "To Mrs. Edward Twisleton," December 13, 1859 Charles Sumner, "To the Duchess of Argyll," December 20, 1859 John Greenleaf Whittier, "Brown of Ossawatomie," December 22, 1859 Thomas Hamilton, "The Nat Turner insurrection," December 1859 William A. Phillips, "The age and the man," January 20, 1860 Louisa May Alcott, "With a rose that bloomed on the day of John Brown's martyrdom," January 20, 1860 Stephen Douglas, "Invasion of states," January 23, 1860 Richard Realf, "John Brown's raid," January 30, 1860 Abraham Lincoln, "Address at the Cooper Institute," February 27, 1860 William H. Seward, "The state of the country," February 29, 1860, and "The national idea," October 3, 1860 John S. Rock, "Ninetieth anniversary of the Boston Massacre," March 5, 1860 William Henry Furness, "Put up thy sword," March 11, 1860 Carl Schurz, "The doom of slavery," August 1, 1860 Pennsylvania Statesman, "Old Brown's argument," October 20, 1860 Lucretia Mott, "Remarks to the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society," October 25, 1860 Osborne P. Anderson, A Voice from Harper's Ferry, early 1861

pt. III. Southern responses. Henry Wise, "Comments in Richmond, Virginia," October 21, 1859 Republican Banner and Nashville Whig, "The Harper's Ferry riot, October 24, 1859 Robert Barnwell Rhett, "The insurrection," October 31, 1859 Richmond Daily Enquirer, "A suggestion for Governor Wise," November 2, 1859 Southern Watchman, "The Harper's Ferry insurrection," November 3, 1859 D. H. Strother, "The late invasion at Harper's Ferry," November 5, 1859, and "The trial of the conspirators," November 12, 1859 Sarah Frances Williams, "To my dear parents," November 7, and 11, 1859 Margaretta Mason, "To Lydia Maria Child," November 11, 1859 Arkansas Gazette, "The Harper's Ferry insurrection," November 12, 1859 Richmond Whig, "Editorial," November 18, 1859 Natchez Courier, "Forewarned, forearmed," November 18, 1859 Mahala Doyle, "To John Brown," November 20, 1859 Edmund Ruffin, "Resolutions of the Central Southern Rights Association," November 25, 1859, and Anticipations of the Future, June 1860 - Susan Bradford Eppes, "Diary," October-December 1859 Amanda Virginia Edmonds, "Diary," November and December 1859 Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, "Dear friend," November 25, 1859, and "The triumph of freedom, a dream," January 1860 Thomas J. Jackson, To Mary Anna Jackson," December 2, 1859 John Preston, "To Margaret Junkin Preston," December 2, 1859 Raleigh Register, "The execution of John Brown," December 3, 1859 Moncure Conway, "Sermon," December 4, 1859 Reuben Davis, "The duty of parties," December 8, 1859 Anonymous, "A woman's view of a woman's duty in connection with John Brown's crimes," December 11, 1859 Andrew Johnson, "Remarks to the Senate," December 12, 1859 James A. Seddon, "To R. M. T. Hunter," December 26, 1859 Anonymous, "Old John Brown, a song for every Southern man," ca. December 1859 Mann Satterwhite Valentine, "The mock auction," 1860 George Fitzhugh, "Disunion within the union," January 1860 C. G. Memminger, "The South Carolina mission to Virginia," January 19, 1860 Alexander Boteler, "Speech on the organization of the House," January 25, 1860 John Tyler, Jr., "The secession of the South," April 1860 National Democratic Executive Committee, The Great Issue to Be Decided in November Next, September 1860 Howell Cobb, "Letter to the people of Georgia," December 6, 1860 William Gilmore Simms, "To a Northern friend," December 12, 1860 John Wilkes Booth, "Philadelphia speech," December 1860 Richard K. Call, "To John S. Littell," February 12, 1861 James Williams, "To Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux," February 1861

pt. IV. International responses : The Times, "Editorial," November 2, 1859 Joseph Barker, "Slavery and Civil War," November 1859 L'Univers, "Editorial," November 24, 1859 Cyprian Kamil Norwid, "To citizen John Brown" and "John Brown," November 1859 Victor Hugo, "A word on John Brown," December 2, 1859; "To M. Heurtelou," March 31, 1860; and "To the memory of John Brown," October 21, 1874 Ottilie Assing, "John Brown's execution and its consequences," December 1859 Harvey C. Jackson, "An address to the colored people of Canada," December 7, 1859 Glasgow Herald, "The outbreak at Harper's Ferry," December 19, 1859 Aberdeen Journal, "A martyr or a criminal?" December 21, 1859 Manchester Examiner and Times, "The execution of John Brown," December 24, 1859 Harriet Martineau, "John Brown; South's political posturing," December 24, 1859, and "The puritan militant," January 28, 1860 Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper, "Captain John Brown," December 25, 1859 Caledonian Mercury and Daily Express, "A New Year's reverie," January 2, 1860 Anti-Slavery Reporter, "The Harper's Ferry tragedy," January 2, 1860 Argus, "A revolt in America," January 10, 1860 Karl Marx, "To Friedrich Engels," January 11, 1860 Joseph Déjacque, "To Pierre Vésinier," February 20, 1861 William Howard Russell, "Diary," April 20 and August 17, 1861 J. M. Ludlow, "A year of the slavery question in the United States (1859-60)," Decemnber 1862 Louis Ratisbonne, "John Brown," February 1863 Giuseppe Garibaldi, "To President Lincoln," August 6, 1863 W. T. Malleson and Washington Wilks, "Speeches to the Emancipation Society," December 2, 1863 John Stuart Mill, Autobiography, 1873 Hermann von Holst, "John Brown," 1878

pt. V. Civil War and U.S. postwar responses. Various authors, "John Brown's body," May 1861

Elizabeth Van Lew, "Occasional diary," 1861

Mary Boykin Chesnut, "A diary from Dixie," November 28, 1861

Wilder Dwight, "Letters," July 30, 1861, and March 4 and 8, 1862

George Michael Neese, "Diary," January 3 and 26, 1862

Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Chiefly about war matters. By a peaceable man," July 1862

John Sherman, "To William Tecumseh Sherman," September 23, 1862

Charlotte Forten, "Diary" and "Letter," November 1862

Moncure Conway, The Golden Hour, 1862

Adalbert Volck, "Worship of the North" and "Writing the Emancipation Proclamation," 1863

John H. Surratt, "Diary," January 16 and 20, 1863

Anonymous, "John Brown's entrance into hell," March 1863

J. Sella Martin, "Speech to the Emancipation Society," December 2, 1863

William Henry Hall, "Oration on the occasion of the Emancipation celebration," January 1, 1864

John Wilkes Booth, "Remarks on Lincoln and Brown," November 1864

Walt Whitman, "Year of meteors (1859-60)," 1865

Joseph G. Rosengarten, "John Brown's raid: how I got into it and how I got out of it," June 1865

C. Chauncey Burr, "History of old John Brown," July 1865

Henry Ingersoll Bowditch, "Dear Mrs. H

," July 27, 1865

Charles Sumner, "The national security and the national faith," September 14, 1865

James Buchanan, Mr. Buchanan's Administration on the Eve of the Rebellion, January 1866

Herman Melville, "The portent (1859)," 1866

Gerrit Smith, "John Brown," August 15, 1867

John Milton Hay, "Diary," September 10, 1867

Richard Henry Dana, Jr., "How we met John Brown," July 1871

Henry S. Olcott, "How we hung John Brown," 1875

Colored Citizen, "Wanted, a few black John Browns," January 4, 1879

Eli Thayer, "To G. W. Brown," January 13, 1880

Frederick Douglass, "John Brown," May 30, 1881

George Washington Williams, "John Brown, hero and martyr," 1883

David N. Utter, "John Brown of Osawatomie," November 1883

Mark Twain, "English as she is taught," April 1887

Frank Preston Stearns, "Unfriendly citicism of John Brown," 1888

T. Thomas Fortune, "John Brown and Nat. Turner," January 12 and 29, 1889.