Ohio archæological and historical quarterly . (268) John Brown 269 with the express purpose of questioning Brown andleading him to implicate some of his northern friends,especially Joshua R. Giddings. It appears, however,that Vallandigham had started from Washington to hishome in Ohio before he heard of the raid. The firstnews of it he got when he reached Baltimore. He wasdelayed there for some time and arrived in HarpersFerry on the morning of the 19th of October. Here hemet Senator Mason of Virginia, the author of the Fu-gitive Slave Law, who had been called to the Ferry bythe insurrection.

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Ohio archæological and historical quarterly . (268) John Brown 269 with the express purpose of questioning Brown andleading him to implicate some of his northern friends,especially Joshua R. Giddings. It appears, however,that Vallandigham had started from Washington to hishome in Ohio before he heard of the raid. The firstnews of it he got when he reached Baltimore. He wasdelayed there for some time and arrived in HarpersFerry on the morning of the 19th of October. Here hemet Senator Mason of Virginia, the author of the Fu-gitive Slave Law, who had been called to the Ferry bythe insurrection. In company with Mason and a fewothers Vallandigham was permitted to see the prisonersin the engine house. John Brown and Stevens werethere, severely wounded and covered with , however, did not object to talking with news-paper correspondents and answered very freely most ofthe questions that were asked by Vallandigham andMason. In answer to criticisms through the press Vallan-digham, on October 22, 1859, addressed a letter to theC

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