Imagine you live at the time of John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry. Write a letter to the editor of a local paper expressing your feelings about his methods.

John Brown, a citizen whose interests clearly go against the common goals of this country, tried to illegitimately take control of the Army's arsenal today. His methods are far from what a citizen who loves this country will do, hiring mercenaries and bringing them here in order to force his ideas, which, as I already mentioned, do not go along with the goals of this country. Luckily, he was struck down by the Army, which acted promptly in impeding he achieved his goal.