Autobiography and personal reminiscences of Major-General BenjFButler : Butler's book : a review of his legal, political, and military career . uch suc-cess. At the same time theSouthern States were hold-ing conventions, passingresolutions, and declaringfor the right of secession. In many of the States the proposition of secession was defeated onlyupon the ground that the time had not come for it. Tlie next important event was the incursion of John Brown,known as Pottowattomie Brown, of Kansas, into the State of Virginiawith his sixteen men, with intent to raise an insurrection of thenegroes,
Autobiography and personal reminiscences of Major-General BenjFButler : Butler's book : a review of his legal, political, and military career . uch suc-cess. At the same time theSouthern States were hold-ing conventions, passingresolutions, and declaringfor the right of secession. In many of the States the proposition of secession was defeated onlyupon the ground that the time had not come for it. Tlie next important event was the incursion of John Brown,known as Pottowattomie Brown, of Kansas, into the State of Virginiawith his sixteen men, with intent to raise an insurrection of thenegroes, and thus overthrow slavery. He took possession of HarpersFerry and captured nineteen persons, principal men of the town,whom he took with him into the engine house of the United StatesArsenal, as prisoners. The State of Virginia did not prove itself able to dispossess him, buttwo companies of United States Marines, consisting of fifty men each,were very anomalously put under the command of RobertE. Lee, of the United States Army, and sent to Harpers Ferry by thePresident to capture Brown and his handful of men who were making. Copyiiglited. John Browns Fort. 134 BUTLERS BOOK. war oil Virginia. The selection of Colonel Lee to command thisexpedition seems to have been because of his soundness on the slavery-question. He went to Harpers Ferry and succeeded in capturingBrown and his sixteen men, and in releasing the prisoners. Thismilitary feat seems to have been the first great victory of E. Lee. It certainly was a complete one. This performance was criticised by the strict constructionists ofsuch provisions of the Constitution as declared against the inter-ference of the United States in such matters by the use of troops,except in case of war or invasion by a foreign power. But greaterevents soon overshadowed criticisms on constitutional law. The Democratic National Convention of 18(30 was held atCharleston, South Carolina. To this convention I was a delega
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