1.     How is the responsibility for Harper's Ferry viewed by the Northern papers?
        How is it viewed by the Southern papers?  Is there a common ground which
        the two sides might share?

2.    What are the evaluations of Brown contained in the various editorials?

3.    How has the sectional crisis become inseparable from national politics by this
        point?  To what extent are politics responsible for the widening crisis?

4.    How does the South in some instances interpret the event in a positive light?
       What are the implications of this event for the South, according to the editorials?

5.    While the North was willing to condemn treason, it could at the same time justify
       Brown's actions.  How?  Why?

6.    To what degree can/does each section separate the actions of the few from those
       of the many in discussing the incident?