329; also, Mason Report, pp.

48-59.
Brown began by reading to the council a long document which he had drafted since his stay in Rochester.

It called itself a "Provisional Constitution and Ordinances for the People of the United States," which, as it explained, looked to no overthrow of States or dissolution of the Union, but simply to "amendment and repeal." It was not in any sense a reasonable project of government, but simply an ill-jointed outline of rules for a proposed slave insurrection.

The scheme, so far as any comprehension of it may be gleaned from the various reports which remain, was something as follows: [Sidenote] Mason Report, p.

55.
[Sidenote] Blair, Testimony, Mason Report, pp.