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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 24567007, member: 101855&quot;]Here are couple more Civil War related pieces which are not classified as Civil War tokens. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1557475[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This piece was issued after John Brown was hanged for treason after he tried to take weapons from the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia in 1859. Brown’s plan was to arm an army of runaway slaves first with pikes (spears) and later with the rifles he captured. They would conduct raids on slaveowners to free others. His efforts were thwarted, first by local gunmen, some of who got drunk for the occasion and ultimately by federal troops led by Robert E. Lee and JEB Stewart.</p><p><br /></p><p>John Brown remains a controversial figure to this day. My opinion of him is, righteous cause, wrong methods. Others view him as a martyr and great hero.</p><p><br /></p><p>This piece is in brass. DeWitt also lists it in silver, copper and white metal. It has been my experience that that white metal pieces are by far the most common. The brass is scarce, and I believe that the copper and silver pieces must be rare. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1557477[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This second piece was issued by the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts. I believe that the &quot;Freedom of Speech&quot; slogan refers to the gag order which forbid discussion of the slavery issue in Congress for a number of years. There were also movements to silence newspapers that printed anti-slavery messages in the border states. </p><p><br /></p><p>This piece is rather scarce. DeWitt lists it in silver, copper and white metal. I think that the first two compositions are very scarce to rare and that the white metal pieces are scarce.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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