Harper's Ferry, Nov. 20th, 1859–10.03 A. M.
W. P. Smith:
I arrived on express
this morning; found the town in great excitement, expecting from one to two
hundred armed men from the West to rescue Brown. The dispatch to me at
Cumberland was from J. B. Hoge, asking if they were on my train.
It appears he
received a special dispatch from Col. Davis to keep a lookout from that
direction. Bellaire is the place they were last heard from. I had but five
passengers to get on my train at Benwood, and when I arrived here and they
found so few passengers, some were satisfied they had been sold.
I shall use all my
efforts to allay the fears of the citizens, as I feel satisfied there is no
just cause for it. . .
A. P. SHUTT.
SOURCE: B. H. Richardson, Annapolis, Maryland,
Publisher, Correspondence Relating to the Insurrection at Harper's
Ferry, 17th October, 1859, p. 42
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