The Public Response

Read the following accounts:

• Henry Ward Beecher, “The Nation’s Duty to Slavery,” October 30, 1859
• Wendell Phillips, “The Lesson of the Hour,” November 1, 1859
• William Lloyd Garrison, Speech on John Brown, December 2, 1859
• Ralph Waldo Emerson, “John Brown,” January 6, 1860
• John Greenleaf Whittier, “Brown of Ossawatomie”
• George Fitzhugh, “Disunion Within the Union”
• Edmund Ruffin, “Resolution of the Central Southern Rights Association”
• Mann Satterwhite Valentine, “The Mock Auction”
• Who's To Blame? Chicago Press and Tribune, October 21, 1859
• Kansas Fruits, The New York Daily Tribune, October 28, 1859
• A Suggestion for Governor Wise, Richmond Daily Enquirer, November 2, 1859
• The Harper's Ferry Insurrection, Southern Watchman (Athens, Georgia), November 3, 1859
• John Brown's Speech, The New York Times, November 3, 1859
• The Execution of Brown, The New York Times, December 3, 1859
• Senator Henry Wilson, Republican of Massachusetts, December 6, 185
• Senator Jefferson Davis, Democrat of Mississippi, December 8, 1859
• Senator Stephen Douglass, Democrat of Illinois, January 23, 1860
• Abraham Lincoln, Cooper Union Address, February 27, 1860