Virginia General Assembly Report of the Joint Committee of the General Assembly of Virginia on the Harpers Ferry Outrages
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05644 Author/Creator: Virginia General Assembly Place Written: Richmond, Virginia Type: Pamphlet Date: 26 January 1860 Pagination: 22 p. ; 23.8 x 14.9 cm. Order a Copy
Discusses Brown's attack at Harpers Ferry and the Abolitionist activity and legislation in northern states which encouraged him. The report quickly reviews the facts regarding Brown and then turns to larger issues. It reviews the history of legislated emancipation after the Revolution, the conflicts in Congress and then reviews northern legislation. It finds that the North's "statute books are filled with enactments conceived in a spirit of hostility to the institutions of the South, at war with the true intent and meaning of the federal compact, and adopted for the avowed purpose of rendering nugatory some of the express covenants of the Constitution of the United States." Stab-stitched with remnants of floral wrappers.
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