{"id":575,"date":"2009-10-19T12:06:34","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T17:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/blog\/?p=575"},"modified":"2010-06-16T10:46:09","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T15:46:09","slug":"harpers-ferry-good-out-of-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2009\/10\/19\/harpers-ferry-good-out-of-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"Harpers Ferry – "Good Out of Evil""},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last week I discussed <\/a>a southern newspaper that argued that only legal means should be used against abolitionists who threatened southern communities. Immediately after the Harpers Ferry Raid, however, this newspaper had a different perspective. The editor was not concerned about abolitionists invading the South, but rather argued in late October 1859 that Harpers Ferry would actually reduce sectional tensions. \u201cWe think that a great deal of good will result from the Harper\u2019s Ferry affair \u2013 much more than could have been anticipated,\u201d as the Fayetteville Observer explained<\/a>. Only \u201cfanatics\u201d in the North supported Brown\u2019s raid. The Observer also argued <\/a>that Harpers Ferry would split the Republican party. An editorial in an Indiana newspaper was one of \u201cmany\u2026signs of conservative Republicans [who were] cutting loose from the ultra fragments of their party.\u201d While the Observer later <\/a>admitted that Brown\u2019s raid had not \u201cheal[ed] the sectional breach,\u201d it is still important to consider this newspaper’s initial reaction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week I discussed a southern newspaper that argued that only legal means should be used against abolitionists who threatened southern communities. Immediately after the Harpers Ferry Raid, however, this newspaper had a different perspective. The editor was not concerned about abolitionists invading the South, but rather argued in late October 1859 that Harpers Ferry […]<\/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":[77,171],"tags":[157],"class_list":["post-575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antebellum-1840-1861","category-historic-periodicals","tag-slavery-abolition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575","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=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2008,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions\/2008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}