Atchison (KS) Freedom’s Champion, “Paying the Piper,” January 28, 1860

    Source citation
    “Paying the Piper,” Atchison (KS) Freedom’s Champion, January 28, 1860, p. 1: 5.
    Newspaper: Publication
    Atchison Freedom’s Champion
    Newspaper: Headline
    Paying the Piper
    Newspaper: Page(s)
    1
    Newspaper: Column
    5
    Type
    Newspaper
    Date Certainty
    Exact
    Transcriber
    Don Sailer, Dickinson College
    Transcription date
    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.

    PAYING THE PIPER. There is said to be not a little commotion in Virginia about paying the cost of Gov. Wise’s military presidential demonstrations at Harper’s Ferry. What might have been accomplished without any guard at all, to wit, the safe keeping of John Brown, who did not want to escape – Gov. Wise employs seventeen hundred men rank and file to do. Besides this, Gen. Taliferro’s [Taliaferro's] staff number sixty-four chivalric Virginians, at per diem allowances of eight dollars – just eighteen larger than the staff of Napoleon when at the head of his conquering legions. All this was done to advocate Gov. Wise’s claims for the Charleston nomination. The tax payers of Virginia think it an expensive mode of electioneering, and that Gov. Wise ought to pay the major part of the cost.

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