now;' and the crowd fell back, and the prisoners were safely placed
on the train. Stevens was placed in the bottom of the car, being
unable to sit up. Brown was propped up on a seat with pillows, and
Coppoc and Green seated in the middle of them; the former was evi-
dently much frightened, but looked calm, while the latter was the very
impersonation of fear. His nerves were twitching, his eyes wild and
almost bursting from their sockets, his whole manner indicating the
dreadful apprehensions that filled his mind. This fellow was a mem-
ber of Congress, under the Provisional Government, had been very
daring while guarding the arsenal, and very impudent while in the
engine house, but when the marines entered it, he jumped back
among the imprisoned, and cried out that he was a prisoner; but Mr.
Washington thrust him forward, and informed the besiegers that he
was one of the guerillas, upon which a stab was made at him, but
missed him, and he still lives to expiate his guilt on the gallows."

These statements, with regard to the negroes, are in
all probability false. The Virginians, who had not
dared to fight them armed, mustered courage to insult
them when manacled.

On the same evening there was another panic at
Harper's Ferry: it was Cook, this time, who was mur-
dering all the people at Sandy Hook! The marines
hastened out to protect the citizens, but found neither
Cook nor a broil there. When they returned to Har-
per's Ferry, the Virginia militia, who had been afraid
to follow, now valiantly offered to go out to defend
their fellow-citizens.

But the limits of this volume will not permit me to
recount how often and pusillanimously the Virginians
acted. From the arrest of the Liberators till the death
of their Chief, the shivering chivalry of the once gal-
lant State of Virginia suffered from a chronic but
ludicrously painful fright.

Governor Wise and Mr. Hunter accompanied the
prisoners to Charlestown, where they were lodged in
jail, and placed under the charge of Capt. John Avis.
Of the jail and jailer a trust-worthy writer says:

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