Q. Brown, suppose you had every nigger in the United States, what would you do with them? A. Set them free.
Q. Your intention was to carry them off and free them? A. Not at all.
A Bystander. To set them free would sacrifice the life of every man in this community.
Brown. I do not think so.
Bystander. I know it. I think you are fanatical.
Brown. And I think you are fanatical. "Whom the gods would destroy they first made mad," and you are mad.
Q. Was your only object to free the negroes? A. Absolutely our only object.
Q. But you demanded and took Colonel Washington's silver and watch? A. Yes; we intended freely to appropriate the property of slave-holders to carry out our object. It was for that, and only that, and with no design to enrich ourselves with any plunder whatever.
Bystander. Did you know Sherrod in Kansas? I understand you killed him.
Brown. I killed no man except in fair fight. I fought at Black Jack Point and at Osawatomie; and if I killed anybody, it was at one of these places.