Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1859 — A SUGGESTION. [ARTICLE]

A SUGGESTION.

j Mr. Editor .j Capt. John Brown has been tried and convicted of treason and murder in the first degri e, and consequently sentenced to suffer the extreme penalty of the law. Yet why should this be so? Nothing of use should be destroyed, and John Brown can be jpjaced in a position where he would be the most useful man connected with the destiny bf out countrjr. If the Government really iind earnestly desire the suppression of the I piavc Trade, we would suggest that those having the power commission him Admiral jof a email fleet, empowered with authority ‘to capture all vessels engaged in this accursed and unlawful traffic, and, rny word for it, he will do more for the annihilation of that institution, than all the fleets of Uncle Sam knd John Buffi combined, which are now jfprofessedly) working for its downfall. I A Reader.