John L. Brown

The people of South Carolina take it in high dugeon that the whole world sboüld trouble themselves because they talked of hanging a manfor helping a slaveto unaway. The South Caroiinian saysj "We had scarcely hcard of this case in South Carolina out of the district of Fairfield, in which it occurred; and the noise made about it abroad shows that we have vile traitora in our very midst, beni on arding the abolitionists in their incendiary assaults on us, against whom our people should be vigilantly on their guard. We learn that not long after the commuiation of Brown's sentence, a petition was forwarded to the governor from the neighborhood in which Brown was-brought up, stating facts not brought before the jury, and so well authenticated as to induce the governor io relieve him from the whipping, and grant him a full pardon. - Shortly after this, the executive department, we understand, wss inundated with petitions, which still continue to a-rrive from nearly all the non-s-lave-holding States, numeroosly signed by men and women; and also letters from indfviduals; denouncing slavery, warning, threatening, and demanding a pardon for Brown."