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The Harper's Ferry Trials
Summary
The last two Harper's Ferry insurgents, Stephens and Hazlett, have been sentenced to die. Little public interest remains in the John Brown raid.
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The Harper’s Ferry Trials.
Stephens and Haskett, the remaining two of the Harper’s ferry insurgents, have been fully convicted, and sent on to die. Stephens was convicted early last week, and the verdict against Haskett was rendered on last Saturday morning. An early day, we learn, will be fixed on for their execution.
Believing that the outraged sovereignty of Virginia has been amply avenged in the blood of the fanatics, who have already expiated their crimes on the scaffold, public interest has grown lukewarm about the trial and fate of Stephens and Haskett. Their insane raid will long be remembered as a monument of folly, and their miserable end be a terror to all, whose fanaticism leads them to strike at the foundations of social order. We have no tear of sympathy for their wretched fate, the most that pity can ask, is oblivion of their memory.
Article Source
Newspaper: The Frederick Examiner
Publication Date: February 15th, 1860
Page/Column: 2C
Town: Frederick, MD
County: Frederick
Subjects
- John Brown's Raid
