Prior to 1859, there were many distinctions between the North and the South. In the wake of John Brown's raid on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry and his following execution, comparing North and South seemed to be the equivalent of comparing black and white. The effects of John Brown's death pried the gap between North and South open even further.
The North came to see John Brown as a hero and a martyr. Document A and Document G are reflections of the typical Northern perspective. In Document A, an editorial from the New York Tribune, Greely passes off Brown's actions as "utterly mistaken" and "pernicious," yet views Brown's cause as holy and "combatin
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