John Brown was tried for treason, murder, and inciting slaves to insurrection.

However the Southern man may have been master of the negro, there were compensatory processes whereby certain negroes were masters of their masters' children.

My mother was a Northern woman, daughter of Hon. John Sergeant, a distinguished lawyer, and for many years representative in Congress from Philadelphia.

John Brown was tried for treason, murder, and inciting slaves to insurrection.

In all her history, from the formation of the federal government until the hour of secession, no year stands out more prominently than the year 1858 as evidencing the national patriotism of Virginia.

The first American ancestor of our name was a younger son of these old Devonshire people, and came to the Virginia colony in the reign of Charles the First.

In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now.