{"id":563,"date":"2009-10-14T10:09:09","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T15:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/blog\/?p=563"},"modified":"2010-06-16T11:09:50","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T16:09:50","slug":"harpers-ferry-in-november-1860","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2009\/10\/14\/harpers-ferry-in-november-1860\/","title":{"rendered":"Harpers Ferry in November 1860"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-564\" title=\"observer1\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2009\/10\/observer11.jpg\" alt=\"observer1\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/28779\" target=\"_blank\">These two <\/a>reports from November 1860 use John Brown\u2019s raid on Harpers Ferry to argue that a federal arsenal in Fayetteville, North Carolina had to protected, but not in the way that one might expect. Rather than have the local militia continue to provide protection, some Fayetteville residents asked the War Department to send soldiers. While some objected that \u201clocal authorities [had] to protect government property at their own expense,\u201d the <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/28778\" target=\"_blank\">Fayetteville Observer explained <\/a>that \u201cthe chief inducement\u2026was to negative any idea of a John Brown raid here.\u201d The presence of a US Army company from New York apparently did not cause any serious problems. \u201cSo far from irritating the public mind,\u201d the <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/28779\" target=\"_blank\">Fayetteville Observer noted <\/a>that \u201c[their presence] has very materially <em>quieted<\/em> the public mind here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These two reports from November 1860 use John Brown\u2019s raid on Harpers Ferry to argue that a federal arsenal in Fayetteville, North Carolina had to protected, but not in the way that one might expect. Rather than have the local militia continue to provide protection, some Fayetteville residents asked the War Department to send soldiers. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,156],"tags":[161],"class_list":["post-563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-19th-century-1840-1880","category-images","tag-battles-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2088,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions\/2088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}