Vallandigham. Did you get up this document that is called a Constitution?
Brown. I did. They are a constitution and ordinance of my own striving and getting up.
Vallandigham. How long have you been engaged in this business?
Brown. From the breaking out of the difficulties in Kansas. Four of my sons had gone there to settle, and they induced me to go. I did not go there to settle, but because of the difficulties.
Mason. What was your object in coming?
Brown. We came to free the slaves, and only that.
A Volunteer. What in the world did you suppose you could do here in Virginia with that amount of men?