Newspaper clipping regarding the activities of Hugh Forbes in connection to John Brown the abolitionist. Transcription: A CARD+?-?-?+?-?-?COL. [Hugh] FORBES.+?-?-? ? A certain Mr. H. Forbes ?sometimes (I know not why) called +?-?-?Col. Forbes+?-?- fills a close page of The Herald with what are there characterized as +?-?-?Most +?-?-?Important Revelations+?-?-? respecting Old [John] Brown and the complicity of leading Republicans in his recent operations. Into this labored and successful attempt at self-exposure by +?-?-?Col. Forbes,+?-?-? I find my name most wantonly dragged. My only
Newspaper clipping regarding the activities of Hugh Forbes in connection to John Brown the abolitionist. Transcription: A CARD+?-?-?+?-?-?COL. [Hugh] FORBES.+?-?-? ? A certain Mr. H. Forbes ?sometimes (I know not why) called +?-?-?Col. Forbes+?-?- fills a close page of The Herald with what are there characterized as +?-?-?Most +?-?-?Important Revelations+?-?-? respecting Old [John] Brown and the complicity of leading Republicans in his recent operations. Into this labored and successful attempt at self-exposure by +?-?-?Col. Forbes,+?-?-? I find my name most wantonly dragged. My only reason for noticing the performance is a belief that the public may infer from the facts in my case what is the probable truth with respect to others whose names have been dragged into these +?-?-?Most Important Revelations.+?-?-? This Forbes appeared in our City sometime after the explosion of the European Revolutionary Uprising of 1848, and claimed to have borne an important part in that movement. Of course, he was needy, and The Herald says he was +?-?-?at one times a reporter +?-?-?or translator on THE TRIBUNE.+?-?-? This is quite probable, though I do not recollect it. Some time late in 1856, (I think it was) I was apprised that he was going out to Kansas to help the Free-State men, then threatened with annihilation by the Border Ruffians of Missouri, backed by Federal functionaries and troops. Lawrence had then been twice beleaguered and once sacked; Osawatamie had been twice ravaged and burned; Leavenworth had been just before swept clean of Free-State men by a Missouri raid ?William Phillips being butchered while defending his own house, his brother badly wounded and captured, while those who made no resistance were sent down the river at an hour+?-?-?s notice. As Forbes professed to be a capable and experienced military officer, especially qualified for guerilla or border warfare, and as he had always claimed to be an earnest Red Republican and foe of every form of Hum
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