A Singular Enterprise.--Frankfort, Kentucky, Commonwealth [Opposition](21 November 1859)
The greed
of money-getting is not very particular in
the way of accomplishing its purposes but
the most singular instance we have lately
heard of, is an effort to turn the execution
of Ossawattomie Brown and his fellow
conspirators to account, by getting up a
monster excursion, from all parts of the
country, of those who have a sufficiently
morbid appetite for the horrible as to
induce them to desire to be present. Mr.
Simon Perham, not without notoriety as a
showman, has conceived this happy idea,
and recently addressed the President of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, inquiring
as to the amount of reduction upon
the regular rate of fare which would be
conceded to his excursionists. Mr.
Garrett, not thinking the occasion a proper
one, or that the people who would travel
hundreds of miles to see five or six
criminals executed, exactly the class of
visitors who would be agreeable to the
Virginia authorities, has caused that opinion
to be known to Mr. Perham.
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