Questions About John Brown

[Wild Bill]

It was amended?

I have referred readers to Harold M. Hyman's, A More Perfect Union, in several threads before, and I do so again. The Republican/Abolitionists were asking themselves the same question and many thought they should rewrite the Constitution, but Major William Whiting of the AG Dept said the fault was existing proslavery clauses, which if eliminated would solve the problem. Hence we have the 13, 14, and 15 Amends. to "purify" the Constitution of 1789.

Buchanan (nor Lincoln) was not about to transgress the Canadian Border--it would have meant war with Gt. Britain. A Federal charge of treason would not have backfired on any of the men mentioned. If Jefferson could not get Aaron Burr (and supporters like Andrew Jackson) for treason, no one was going to get Lincoln, Seward, Wendell Phillips, Gerritt Smith or anyone else.

This same group also tried to eliminate West Point as too pro-Southern in that a large number of its its graduates led the Rebellion. They failed in that.