Atchison (KS) Freedom’s Champion, “Walker vs. Brown,” December 3, 1859

    Source citation
    “Walker vs. Brown,” Atchison (KS) Freedom’s Champion, December 3, 1859, p. 1: 3.
    Newspaper: Publication
    Atchison Freedom’s Champion
    Newspaper: Headline
    Walker vs. Brown
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    1
    Newspaper: Column
    3
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    Newspaper
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    Exact
    Transcriber
    Don Sailer, Dickinson College
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    The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.

    WALKER VS. BROWN. – A different measure has been meted out to Walker and his crew than will probably be dealt to Brown and his set. Walker, who organized an armed invasion of a peaceful neighboring State, has been acquitted by the New Orleans Court; but Brown can only look forward to execution. Yet we do not see that Brown was relieved by a generous though mistaken purpose of giving freedom to an oppressed race, while that of Walker had no other end than to establish slavery on a new soil. Brown was the victim of his own heated and disordered fancies, while Walker planned his schemes in cold blood, and with the most deliberately selfish ends. Southern law knows of no penalty for Walker, although it can hardly wait its own processes in its eagerness for the life of Brown.

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