[You, replying] Not by the government, which freely handed him over to Virginia to try on those bogus treason charges.
1. Do you believe the charges against John Brown were bogus? Do you think he should have been released?
2. Your demurrer in no way invalidates 4CJ's point about the utter poisonousness of Northern opinion. You can't wish people massacred and then pretend the social compact is still intact. "We wish he'd succeeded, we wish you'd died" really tears it. When will you acknowledge that point? You have studiously avoided commenting on it, except to make that belittling reply to our friend.
Yeah I think the charges were bogus. John Brown was convicted of treason against the Commonwealth of Virginia. How can someone be who was not a citizen, did not live there, and had never lived there be convicted of treason? And no, I don't think he should have been released. There were other charges that they could have brought. Murder comes to mind.