The Sectional Controversy Or Passages in the Political History of the United
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" It is known to all that a most atrocious outrage has been committed upon the State which I have the honor in part to represent ; that the people of a town reposing in the hours of night, in all the confidence of peace and conscious innocence of all purposes of wrong to mankind, were suddenly invaded, and THE JOHN BROWN INVASION. 199 attacked by a band of armed men from non-slaveholding States ; that unarmed men were shot down in the streets ; that murders were committed ; that an attempt was ...openly made, not only to subvert the Constitution of the United States, but the Constitu tion of Virginia ; that men were seized and dragged from their habitations at night, and that attempts were made to excite ser vile insurrection and civil war in its most horrid form. It is known too, sir, that complicity has been charged, not on the part of the South, but by individuals professing to have been in the employment of persons and associations in the non-slave- holding States ; and it is also known to those who come from the South, at least, that the public mind has been startled, not so much by the foray of BKOWN and his twenty-three men, as by the open sympathy and approbation which have been man ifested by portions of the North in regard to that attempt, and the apparent indifference with which it has been treated by those who, we had a right to hope, would have been more con servative in their feelings and actions upon such a subject.
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