Baltimore, Nov. 19th, 1859.
To A. P. Shutt,
Express East,
Piedmont to Cumberland:
I went to Duffield's
to meet you to-day, not knowing my message had failed to get to you in time.
Mr. McMurphy remains at Ferry to confer with you and represents my views as
well as his own.
We fear that this
continued and repeated excitement will seriously interfere with our travel, and
we desire your services particularly in calming the timid fears of the people
and in preventing, as far as possible, any further exciting or exaggerated
reports, telegraphic or otherwise, from being sent over the country.
W. P. SMITH.
SOURCE: B. H. Richardson, Annapolis, Maryland,
Publisher, Correspondence Relating to the Insurrection at Harper's
Ferry, 17th October, 1859, p. 41-2
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