The Execution of Brown.Raleigh, North Carolina, Register [Opposition](9 December 1859)
We give to-day full accounts of the scenes
attending the execution of the traitor,
murderer, and thief, John Brown. He died, as
he lived, a hardened criminal, and when
the wretched confederates shall have paid
the penalty of their crimes, we hope that
their allies and sympathizers at the North
will realize the fact that the South has
the power to protect her soil and property,
and will exercise it in spite of all the measures
which can be levelled at her by the
abolitionists and their aiders and abettors.
Much very silly ridicule has been aimed at
Gov. Wise for assembling a large military
force at Charlestown. He can very well
afford to treat it with the contempt it
deserves. Had he not assembled that force, an
attempt to rescue Brown would have been
made, blood would have been spilled, and in
the end the Union would have been burst
asunder. Gov. Wise lacks a great deal of
being an especial favorite of ours, but
believing that in the present emergency he has
acted properly, we do not hesitate to say so.
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