Windham, Portage Co., Ohio, Nov. 12. My Dear Cousin: I have just completed the attentive perusal of the account published in the New York ...

Charlestown, Oct. 26th, 1859—7.10 P. M. W. P. Smith: There is no visible idea of a rescue. I will see Barbour on my return and inform him. ...

Baltimore, Oct. 26th, 1859. Hon. J. B. Floyd,           Secretary of War, Washington, D. C.: Our company has received the following message...

Dr. Samuel G. Howe came to ask me if I would be one of ten to furnish good counsel to defend 'Old Brown,' to which I agreed. ...

The newspapers are full of Old Brown and his trial. He carries himself wonderfully well. He scorns the plea of insanity which was set up by...

Worcester , October 27,1859 Dearest Mother: While you are dreaming of me in this alarming manner, I am placidly laying out a new bed ...

To a friend: Of course we are all deep in Browns, and you can imagine how stirred up is Worcester generally, especially since the rumore...

I have, may it please the Court, a few words to say. In the first place, I deny everything but what I have all along admitted, — the des...

I will add, if the Court will allow me, that I look upon it as a miserable artifice and pretext of those who ought to take a different cour...

May it please the Court, — I discover that, notwithstanding all the assertions I have received of a fair trial, nothing like a fair trial i...

I did not ask for any quarter at the time I was taken; I did not ask to have my life spared. The Governor of the State of Virginia tendered...