Their goal was to seize the federal arsenal and use the weapons to arm an anti-slavery rebellion.
VOA: special.2009.11.06
Anti-immigrant agitators will seize on this figure, worries Mr Kasarda, a professor at the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School.
All they need do to prevail now is to maintain the status quo of no anti-missile deployments and they will seize any chance afforded them to do just that.