On October 16, 1859 John Brown led a raid on a federal arsenal in Harper’s Ferry, Virginia. The results were disastrous for Brown and his self-recruited army of 18 men. The events that followed were to speed our divided nation into a civil war. This event turned a country on each other and made Brown a martyr. In this paper I will break down the newspapers feeling, thoughts and ideas as they apply to Browns raid up …showed first 75 words of 1349 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1349 total…events and political landscape of the time, I think one would have to live through it. It is apparent that Brown had to pay with his life to slow the inevitable arrival of war. Although Browns execution only hasten the start of the war. Whether you look upon what Brown did as right or wrong, it is clear that he and his followers believed in there cause so much, they paid with there life’s.