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THE New York evening papers, received last night, had a good deal to say about the uprising at Harper's Ferry. A special dispatch to the Express, dated Baltimore, Oct. 18th, 12.15 P.M., says that the insurrection is quelled. The strongly fortified house occupied by the insurgents was stormed by the marines under Col. Lee, and carried. The ringleader, Brown, and his son were both shot down in the assaulting charge. Two marines were killed. Four negroes were found in the house who claimed to have been forced into service. There were not over twenty whites in the plot. Mr. Turner, a cadet from West Point, is among the killed. The hostages held by the insurgents were all rescued unharmed. No damage was done to the railroad or the bridge. The object of the movement is claimed to have been the running off of many thousands of slaves into the Free States.
THE INSURRECTION AT HARPER'S FERRY.
STORMING OF THE ARSENAL BY THE MARINES.
FORTIFIED INSURGENTS TAKEN PRISONERS.
FIFTEEN KILLED AND THREE WOUNDED.
HIGHLY INTERESTING DETAILS.
OFFICIAL REPORT OF COLONEL LEE.
LIST OF THE KILLED AND WOUNDED.
The Outbreak Suppressed---Return of the Troops---Various Scenes and Incidents.
...
The First Battle by Tonnage Men.
The Disturbances at Harper's Ferry.
BALTIMORE, Oct. 18. --The troops reached Harper's Ferry about daylight, and called upon the insurgents to surrender. This demand was refused, and the marines forced the door under a heavy fire from the insurgents which was returned by the marines, who forced an entrance at the point of the bayonet.
In a few moments the conflict was over. All the living insurgents were captured. The volunteers tried to shoot them. Ossawatomie Brown, of Kansas notoriety, with his son, were both shot, the latter dead, and the former dying. He talks freely, and says the whole object was to free the slaves.
Anderson, of Connecticut, another of the leaders, is killed. Three marines and several State troops were shot.
Among those murdered by the insurgents are several of the first men of that section of the State.
THE SERVILE INSURRECTION --The intelligence from Harper's Ferry has created an excitement in our community and throughout the whole length and breadth of the country that has scarcely been equaled by any preceding occurrence of the present century. The palpable absurdity of the whole movement was so apparent to every intelligent mind that few could be found to believe the first rumored accounts received from the seat of the disturbance. Even the northern papers placed no faith in the statement that it was a movement of abolitionists, and cautioned their readers against placing any credence in the alleged motive of the leaders of the outbreak. Nothing but a wild fanaticism, amounting almost to insanity, could account for twenty men combining together in such a fool-hardy enterprise, but it is that species of reckless folly that requires summary justice as a warning to others.
INSURRECTION IN VIRGINIA. --We have accounts of a serious insurrection or riot in Harper's Ferry, Virginia. The city papers of Tuesday contained the following dispatches:
BALTIMORE, Oct. 17, 1859.
INSURRECTION AT HARPER'S FERRY --
Insurrectionists in Possession of
the U.S. Arsenal --Express Train
Fired Into.
...One of the rioters now dying has confessed the whole plot. He says Brown was the originator, and promised his followers that the negroes in Virginia and Maryland would rise by thousands and both States would be made free. Large numbers of slaves are said to have gone towards Pennsylvania....
...BALTIMORE, 1 o'clock... The Southern train, which was due here at an early hour this morning, has not yet arrived.––It is rumored there is a stampede of negroes from this State. There are many other wild rumors, but nothing authentic as yet....
NEGRO INSURRECTION IN VIRGINIA.
NEGROES AND ABOLITIONISTS IN ARMS.
Stampede of Maryland Slaves.
SEIZURE OF THE ARSENAL!...
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Servile Insurrection in Virginia.
STAMPEDE OF SLAVES!
The Federal Arsenal at Harper's Ferry in Possession of the Insurgents.
Storming of the Arsenal by United States
Troops, Ossawatomie brown Leading the Rebels....
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THE SERVILE INSURRECTION --The intelligence from Harper's Ferry has created an excitement in our community and throughout the whole length and breadth of the country that has scarcely been equaled by any preceding occurrence of the present century. The palpable absurdity of the whole movement was so apparent to every intelligent mind that few could be found to believe the first rumored accounts received from the seat of the disturbance. Even the northern papers placed no faith in the statement that it was a movement of abolitionists, and cautioned their readers against placing any credence in the alleged motive of the leaders of the outbreak. Nothing but a wild fanaticism, amounting almost to insanity, could account for twenty men combining together in such a fool-hardy enterprise, but it is that species of reckless folly that requires summary justice as a warning to others.
THE EMEUTE AT HARPER'S FERRY.
This affair, which the papers excitedly call an insurrection, has startled the public mind, from the character of the occurrence itself, and the confused details that have reached the press. It seems to have been at the outset, an attempt to procure a large stampede of slaves, and to have grown, by force of circumstances, into an invasion of these United States and of the commonwealth of Virginia. From the mass of details, we strive to present our readers with a succinct narrative of the facts....
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THE LATE INSURRECTION.
THE CITIZENS OF HARPER'S FERRY.
THE WOUNDED DORSEY,
We have very little additional from the seat of the late insurrectionary movement, at Harper's Ferry. A letter received by us last evening, from a respectable citizen of that place, states, as a fact, that which has certainly not heretofore been made clearly to appear --that is, the extent of the defense, with its results, made by the citizens at Harper's Ferry against the insurgents, before the arrival of troops from abroad. As he thinks injustice has been done them in this matter, we give his letter, as follows:
HARPER'S FERRY, Va., Oct. 21st, 1859.
From the N.Y. Tribune
The insurrection, so called, at Harper's Ferry, proves a verity. Old Brown of Osawatomie, who was last heard of on his way from Missouri to Canada with a band of runaway slaves, now turns up in Virginia, where he seems to have been for some months plotting and preparing for a general stampede of slaves. How he came to be in Harper's Ferry, and in possession of the U.S. Armory, is not yet clear; but he was probably betrayed or exposed, and seized the Armory as a place of security until he could safely get away. The whole affair seems the work of a madman; but John Brown has so often looked death serenely in the face, that what seems madness to others doubtless wore a different aspect to him....
THE EMEUTE AT HARPER'S FERRY.
This affair, which the papers excitedly call an insurrection, has startled the public mind, from the character of the occurrence itself, and the confused details that have reached the press. It seems to have been at the outset, an attempt to procure a large stampede of slaves, and to have grown, by force of circumstances, into an invasion of these United States and of the commonwealth of Virginia. From the mass of details, we strive to present our readers with a succinct narrative of the facts....
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Previous Insurrections.
[From the N.Y. Evening Post.]
The John Brown Rebellion. --Brown and four of his associates are in jail at Charlestown, with an extraordinary guard of eighty Virginian troops and yet so great is their estimation of Brown's valor, they fear he will escape in spite of all precautions. Gov Wise called him "the greatest man he ever saw." The prisoners will be indicted for treason, murder and inciting the slaves to insurrection. The only citizens killed at Harper's Ferry were Turner, Beckham and Bourley, besides the negro Heywood, and private Irvin of the U.S. marines.
The Baltimore papers publish extensive extracts from a journal kept by Jason, one of John Brown's sons, in 1857, but it throws no light on the Harper's Ferry affair nor anything else. Why don't they publish the letters implicating prominent northern politicians? The people are curious to see them.
INSURRECTION IN VIRGINIA.
The daily papers last week were filled with telegraphic dispatches of an insurrection at Harper's Ferry, Virginia. It is somewhat difficult to get a full and clear understanding of the affair. The gist of it seems, however, to be this: --Capt. John Brown, of Kansas notoriety, who was last heard of on his way from Missouri to Canada with a band of runaway slaves, now turns up as the leader of the insurrection of a few infatuated whites and deluded negroes at Harper's Ferry, where he seems to have been for some months plotting and preparing for a general stampede of slaves....
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The Insurrection in Virginia.
...It now appears that the plan was concocted and executed under the lead of Osawatogie [Osawatomie] Brown, of Kansas infamy, accompanied by a set of fanatical Abolitionists from Ohio, Connecticut, and Maine. About one year ago, Brown, under the name of Smith, hired a farm in the vicinity, where the gang rendezvoused. Their object apparently was to procure arms and money from the armory, and induce a general stampede of the slaves in that section of the country....
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Brown's Correspondence.
New York. Oct. 27.
The Herald publishes a series of letters from Colonel Forbes, the author of the Instruction Books for Guerrilla warfare found at Brown's house, to various Republicans principally to F. B. Sanborn, Secretary of Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Society and Dr. S. G. Hone of Boston. One letter, addressed to the latter, dated May 1858, is prefaced by the following memorandum: "Please show to Messrs Sanborn Lawrence Co."
...Capt. Brown, of Kansas notoriety, under the assumed name of Bill Smith, was one of the leaders....
...It now appears that the plan was concocted and executed under the lead of Ossawatomie Brown, of Kansas infamy, accompanied by a set of fanatical Abolitionists from Ohio, Connecticut and Maine. About one year ago, Brown, under the name of Smith, hired a farm in the vicinity, where the gang rendezvoused.
Their object apparently was to procure arms and money from the armory, and induce a general stampede of the slaves in that section of country....
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On our first page will be found some interesting details of the Abolition outrage at Harper's Ferry, a brief account of which was published last week. Further developments show that Brown had the sympathy and assistance from Abolitionists in various parts in the North. Letters and other papers from Gerritt Smith and others, have been discovered, and a printed document described as "The Constitution of the Provisional Government. This is the key and clue to the entire project. The Federal Government, it seems, was not to be overthrown; State authorities were to be left in formal possession of sovereignty; but supreme over all was to be John Brown, Commander-in Chief, under the Provisional arrangement, who was to range the Union at the head of his parti-colored troops, redressing wrongs and liberating the enslaved; advising, as circumstances demanded, with a Provisional House of Representatives, established for that purpose somewhere in West Virginia.
TELEGRAPHIC.
Reported for the Daily Pantagraph, by the Illinois and Miss. Line
OFFICE, PHOENIX BLOCK --MAT. L. STEELE, OPERATOR.
...The [a ?] letter gives the plans of Forbes and Brown for an insurrection. Forbes' plan, with careful selecting colored and white persons to organize along the northern slave frontier, Virginia and Maryland especially, a series of stampedes of slaves, each one of which operations would carry off in one night and from the same place, some twenty to fifty slaves; this to be effected once or twice a month, and eventually once or twice a week along non-contiguous parts of the line, if possible without conflict, only resorting to force if attacked....
WHAT THE DIFFERENT PLANS PROPOSED WERE.
...Mine was as follows: With carefully selected colored and white persons to organize along the Northern slave frontier (Virginia and Maryland especially) a series of stampedes of slaves, each one of which operations would carry off in one night, and from the same place, some twenty to fifty slaves; this to be effected once or twice a month, and eventually once or twice a week along non-contiguous parts of the line; if possible without conflict, only resorting to force if attacked. Slave women, accustomed to field labor, would be nearly as useful as men. Everything being in readiness to pass on the fugitives, they could be sent with such speed to Canada that pursuit would be hopeless....
STAMPEDE OF SLAVES FRUSTRATED. --The Towsontown Md., Advocate, has the following: --
"We understand on Saturday night that a band of some forty slaves was to have congregated at Dr. Butler's place, near Finksburg, in Carroll Co., Md., but one of them disclosing the secret, the plan was frustrated and five of them arrested and placed in Westminster jail."
The above is confirmed by the Westminster Sentinel, which states that "the slaves belonged to Dr. Butler, George Jacobs, and Hanson T. Bartholow. Horses and carriages were in waiting when the discovery was made. The Sentinel adds that they were all arrested, and that unknown parties were concerned in the attempted stampede."
The Increase of Negroes. The Position of the Wheeling Intelligencer.
[From the New York Post, of yesterday.]
Among the mad vociferations of the southern papers, --while some, like the Charleston Courier and the Savannah Republican, cry out for the instant extinction of Brown, and others talk absurdly of demanding the surrender of his presumed accomplices from the executives of the northern states --there is one Virginia editor, at least, who is disposed to keep hold of his wits in the flurry, and to inquire whether late incidents may not have more than one import. We refer to the Wheeling Intelligencer, whose disquisition is copied into another part of this sheet.
THE HARPER'S FERRY CONSPIRACY AND ITS CONCOCTORS.
...Forbes' plan was to organize a series of stampedes of slaves, fifty at a time, and run them off to Canada. Any disaster which would happen a single stampede would compromise those only who are engaged in it. Brown proposed to invite the slaves to rise. He argued that were he pressed by the United States troops, which after a few days might concentrate, he could easily maintain himself in the Alleghanies, and that his New England partisans would, in the meantime, call a Northern Convention to restore tranquility and overthrow the pro-slavery administration....
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The New York Evening Post, thus replies to the incendiary ravings of the Douglass organ at Washington, which basely attempts to make political capital by charging that the Republicans are accountable for the late outbreak at Harper's Ferry, and makes the silly assertion that the Demonstration by Brown and his handfull of deluded followers is "the most alarming and daring insurrection --dry demonstration that has ever been made the United States." Says the Post:
The Plan of Insurrectionists.
New York, October 27.
The Herald publishes a series of letters of Col. Forbes's, the author of the instruction books for a guerrilla warfare, found at Brown's house, to various Republicans, principally to F. B. Sanborn, Secretary of the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Society, and Dr. S. G. Howe, of Boston. One letter addressed to the latter, dated May, 1858, is prefaced by the following memorandum: "Please show to Messrs. Sanborn, Lawrence and Co. Copies will be sent to Gov. Chase, who found money, and Gov. Fletcher, who contributed arms, and to others interested, as quickly as possible."
Filibustering, Slave Stealing, and Insurrection.
Exciting Dispatches.
...THIRD DISPATCH
...The telegraph wires have been cut from Harper's Ferry, and there is no communication beyond Monocacy. It is reported that there has been a stampede of negroes from Maryland. The train due here early this morning has not yet arrived. Many wild rumors are afloat, but no intelligence of an authentic character has yet been received....
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BROWN'S PRE-ARRANGED PLAN.
Among the letters of Col. Hugh Forbes, just put forth, exposing a fore-knowledge by leading republican Senators and others of the long mediated insurrection of old Brown at Harper's Ferry, is one dated at Washington, D. C., May 14, 1859, and addressed to S. G. Howe, Boston. This letter gives his own and Brown's plans of operating on the Southern States. Forbes' plan was to organize along the Southern slave frontier a series of slave stampedes. But the following is more to the point:
BROWN'S PLAN.
Brown had a different scheme. He proposed, with some twenty-five to fifty (colored and white mixed,) well armed, and bringing a quantity of spare arms, to beat up a slave quarter in Virginia....
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS
A STAMPEDE. --We learn that on Saturday night last some thirty slaves in all ran off from their homes in Alexandria and Fairfax Counties, Va., near this city. Six were the property of the Rev. Mr. Lippett, of the Episcopal Church, and one of the David Fitzhugh, Esq. Some of them are said to be the property of the estate of the late Commodore Thomas Ap Catesby Jones, and two other gentlemen in the same neighborhood, whose names we have not yet learned. --Washington States.
The Difference.
When Old Brown, in a fit of madness, calls about him a band of twenty-two men as crazy as himself, and endeavors to stampede slaves from the borders of Virginia, and in the course of the transaction two or three persons are killed, contrary to the intentions and orders of Brown,which were that life and property should be spared, --he is seized and placed upon hasty trial for his life. His acts meanwhile are openly condemned by the Republican party throughout the North. But when the Border Ruffians invaded Kansas and slaughtered her inhabitants in cold blood and sacked her towns and settlements, the marauders were rewarded with fat appointments and became pets of the Federal Government. What we have stated are historical facts. A number of instances are enumerated by the Albany Evening Journal which attests what we have said:
Brown's Pre-Arranged Plan.
Among the letters of Col. Hugh Forbes, just put forth, exposing a fore-knowledge by leading republican Senators and others of the long mediated insurrection of old Brown at Harper's Ferry, is one dated at Washington, D. C., May 14, 1858, and addressed to S. G. Howe, Boston. This letter gives his own and Brown's plans of operating on the Southern States. Forbes' plan was to organize along the Southern slave frontier, a series of slave stampedes. But the following is more to the point:
ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF THE PLOT.
LETTER FROM COL. FORBES.
...I joined him there on the 9th of August. The Border Ruffians having just at that period spread a report that they had abandoned Kansas, the New-England managers allowed Capt. B. and myself to stay at Tabor without funds, and did not send the promised remittances to my family, because a great number of subscribers did not contribute their respective quotas. During this interval of suspense, Capt. B. advocated the adoption of his plan, and I supported mine of stampedes. The conclusion arrived at was that he renounced his Harper's Ferry project, and I consented to cooperate in stampedes in Virginia and Maryland instead of the part of the country I indicated as the most suitable....
Dread of Slave Revolts
Speaking of the dread of slave revolts constantly in the minds of slaveholders the N. Y. Post says:
STAMPEDE OF SLAVES FRUSTATED [sic] --The Towsontown (Md.) Advocate has the following:
'We understand that on Saturday night a band of some forty slaves was to have congregated at Dr. Butler's place, near Finksburg, in Carroll County, Md., but one of them disclosing the secret, the plan was frustrated, and five of them arrested and placed in Westminster jail.'
The above, says the New York Tribune, is confirmed by the Westminster Sentinel, which states that the slaves belonged to Dr. Butler, George Jacobs, and Hanson T. Bartholow. Horses and carriages were in waiting when the discovery was made. That paper adds that they were all arrested, and that unknown parties were concerned in the attempted stampede.
A LARGE UNDERGROUND ARRIVAL --
The Abolition Insurrection in Virginia
--More Amazing Disclosures.
...Forbes' plan was simply an organized system of stampeding slaves along the border States, and thus gradually driving the institution farther South. Brown's project was declared --so long ago as May, 1858 --to be identically that which has had such a miserable failure at Harper's Ferry. Forbes was too experienced a stager not to see the inevitable result of such a ridiculous project, and much of his correspondence that has fallen into our hands is taken up with denunciations of Brown's crazy idea, and of appeals to the leading republicans to stop Brown or to denounce him....
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The Abolitionist Riot at Harper's Ferry --Sewardism at the South.
...There were, of course, white scoundrels ready to join in the insurrection for the purpose of Seward or of any one else whose views might be antagonistic. But the direct agents of the "irrepressible conflict" doctrines were sincere. They aimed at "freeing the slaves" --at promoting a stampede --at establishing Seward's conflict principle --at plundering the Southern planters for the policy of the Northern pirates --of rioting for some blacks that they might involve in bloodshed and pauperize some whites....
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From the Albany Atlas & Argus.
Revelations of Conspiracy --The Harper's
Ferry Affair Plotted in 1858 --Seward in-
formed of its Ramifications --Speculation
in Murder --Amos Lawrence & Co. offer
$7,00 for an Insurrection and a Rise in
Cotton --The three Plots, Brown's, Forbes',
and the Well-matured Plan.
...Forbes' plan was to organize "stampedes," that is the flight of parties of slaves, from 20 to 50, twice a month --twice a week, if need be --along the Northern border, so as to make slave property untenable, and irritate the pro-slaveryites into blunders.
SEWARD, HALE AND BROWN.
...Having made several ineffectual attempts to get a quiet conversation with Senator John P. Hale, of New Hampshire, I met him accidentally on Sunday morning. I could not then enter into the details of John Brown's project; therefore I confined myself to explaining the urgency sending relief to my family."
In a letter written from Washington to Dr. Howe eight days after this, however, Forbes, whose own plan was the organizing of "a series of stampedes of slaves," along "the Northern slave frontier," finds opportunity to unfold "the details of John Brown's project" to his correspondence as follows: ...
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THE FORBES CORRESPONDENCE.
...He shows throughout a determination to "put money in his purse." He had his own plans and theories of "humanitarian" effort. He preferred taking stock in the Underground Railroad, and proposed the organization of a grand series of slave stampedes, extending from Delaware to Kansas. But he was not particular, and agreed with Brown to a modified plan of stampedes, accompanied with occasional enterprises at insurrection, such as Brown undertook at Harper's Ferry....
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One aspect of these revolts, which has often presented itself to our minds, has been impressed upon us with renewed force by the circumstances of the Harper's Ferry stampede. It is the policy by which they must ever be accompanied. No matter how slight the spark, the apparent combustion is terrific. Old Brown, with his score of followers, has set the entire commonwealth in commotion, and arrested the gaze of the world. The same number of men, with the same [illegible], anywhere else, might have been suppressed by the ordinary police of a village. --...
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The insurrection, so called, at Harper's Ferry, proves a verity. Old Brown of Osawatomie, who was last heard of on his way from Missouri to Canada with a band of runaway slaves, now turns up in Virginia, where he seems to have been for some months plotting and preparing for a general stampede of slaves. How he came to be in Harper's Ferry, and in possession of the U.S. Armory, is not yet clear; but he was probably betrayed or exposed, and seized the Armory as a place of security until he could safely get away. The whole affair seems the work of a madman; but John Brown has so often looked death serenely in the face, that what seems madness to others doubtless wore a different aspect to him....
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...Mine was as follows: With carefully selected colored and white persons to organize along the Northern slave frontier (Virginia and Maryland especially) a series of stampedes of slaves, each one of which operations would carry off in one night, and from the same place, some twenty to fifty slaves; this to be effected once or twice a month, and eventually once or twice a week along non-contiguous parts of the line; if possible without conflict, only resorting to force if attacked. Slave women, accustomed to field labor, would be nearly as useful as men. Everything being in readiness to pass on the fugitives, they could be sent with such speed to Canada that pursuit would be hopeless....
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The Difference.
When Old Brown, in a fit of madness, calls about him a band of twenty-two men as crazy as himself, and endeavors to stampede slaves from the borders of Virginia, and in the course of the transaction two or three persons are killed, contrary to the intentions and orders of Brown,which were that life and property should be spared, --he is seized and placed upon hasty trial for his life. His acts meanwhile are openly condemned by the Republican party throughout the North. But when the Border Ruffians invaded Kansas and slaughtered her inhabitants in cold blood and sacked her towns and settlements, the marauders were rewarded with fat appointments and became pets of the Federal Government. What we have stated are historical facts. A number of instances are enumerated by the Albany Evening Journal which attests what we have said:
A coincidence––though possible having no connection with this plot––was the stampede of 30 slaves from Alexandria and Fairfax counties, Va., on Saturday night. It might have been that they were a part of Brown’s expected reinforcements. Some of them belonged to the estate of the late Commodore Thomas P Catesby Jones, and some to Rev. Mr. Lippett.
The Washington States chronicles a stampede from Alexandria of some thirty slaves, about the time of the Harper’s Ferry emeute, and the Rochester Express of the 25th says that the same living freight, valued at some $15,000, passed over the Suspension Bridge into Canada, and by so doing was immediately transferred from chattels into men, women, and children.
THE REPEAL OF THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE
...So it is with this Harper's Ferry movement. The disclosures which have followed indicate clearly that of itself it is only a feature of the "irrepressible conflict" which the Seward's, Gidding's, Forbes' and others, are waging against the south. Whether it comes in the shape of "stampedes of slaves," or violent outbreaks, it is the same in effect. It will, if persisted in, destroy the Republic....
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