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Did Lincoln kind of jump on the John Brown wagon?

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John Brown was trying to instigate a slave revolt in Virginia. There was an armory at Harpers Ferry and he attacked it to get weapons for the revolt. He was trapped inside when the U.S.Marines responded. Later he was hanged and became a martyr for the abolitionist. read more

No. Lincoln insisted that"John Brown was no Republican," disassociated the Republican Party from the Harper's Ferry raid, and expressly denied that the Republican Party had any desire either to foment slave rebellions or to use the federal government to abolish slavery in the South, both of which Brown had urgently desired. read more

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