Vallandigham. In northern Ohio?
Brown. No more there than anywhere else; in all the free States.
Bystander. Why did you do it secretly?
Brown. Because I thought that necessary to success; no other reason.
Bystander. Have you read Gerrit Smith's last letter?
Brown. What letter do you mean?
Bystander. The "New York Herald" of yesterday, in speaking of this affair, mentions a letter in this way:
"Apropos of this exciting news, we recollect a very significant passage in one of Gerrit Smith's letters, published a month or two ago, in which he speaks of the folly of attempting to strike the shackles off the slaves by the force of moral suasion or legal agitation, and predicts that the next movement made in the direction of negro emancipation would be an insurrection in the South."