New York Daily Tribune, December 7, 1859, Vol. XIX, no. 5811, p. 3
This newspaper has a long article, 4 of the 6 columns, describing “John Brown’s Invasion” and “The Fugitives–Cooke and Virginia in Kansas. The article begins: “I am happy to inform the friends of J.C. Anderson that he was NOT killed at Harper’s Ferry, but is now in Canada.” The article continues with tesimony from John Brown’s men. C.P. Tidd defends John Brown: “…The Herals Freedom … tries to make out that Capt. Brown is a ‘bloody murderer,’ as the Observer calls him. It is not strange that the Observer being as it is, one of the most pro-slavery, negro-hating sheets in the country, and sold, body and soul, to the South, should jupm at all such chances of killing and Abolitionist, for thta is their trade, and they are paid for it. ….When asked what he though of the editor of The Herald, he replied, “He is a perfect old granny.” If the Editor of that lyaing sheet wants any more compliments, I can inform him where he can find a community of Republicans, in Iowa, who heard of his turning traitor.” “John Brown, jr., did not give himself up to the authorities, but was betrayed, and taken prisoner for being a member of the Free-State Legislature, and for nothing else. The Herald states that he was insane before he was a prisoner. this I deny. The brutal treatment he received from the hands of the Border-Ruffians was the sole cause”
Another witness refers to John Brown, sr., as “worthy John Brown.” and as a “heroic friend.”
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