Baltimore, October 17th, 1859.
9 A. M.
A. J. Phelps,
Conductor of the Express East at Ellicott's Mills. Your
despatch is evidently exaggerated and written under excitement. Why should our
trains be stopped by Abolitionists, and how do you know they are such and that
they number one hundred or more? What is their object? Let me know at once
before we proceed to extremities.
W. P. SMITH.
SOURCE: B. H. Richardson, Annapolis, Maryland, Publisher, Correspondence Relating to the Insurrection at Harper's Ferry, 17th October, 1859, p. 5-6
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