 | Samuel Orcutt - Connecticut - 1878 - 950 pages
...1859. I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think, vainly, flattered...that without very much bloodshed it might be done. A week before this, Brown's friend and supporter in his Virginia campaign, Theodore Parker, had written... | |
 | New England - 1896 - 840 pages
..."I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered...that without very much bloodshed it might be done." As one stands within the field where he was executed, and looks off at the wide-spreading view, hemmed... | |
 | Alfred Seelye Roe - 1885 - 42 pages
..."I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think, vainly flattered...that without very much bloodshed it might be done." [December 2nd, 1859.] Our retrospect would be incomplete did we not recall the events happening in... | |
 | Worcester Historical Society, Worcester, Mass - Massachusetts - 1885 - 546 pages
..."I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think, vainly flattered...that without very much bloodshed it might be done." [December 2nd, 1859.] Our retrospect would be incomplete did we not recall the events happening in... | |
 | Franklin Benjamin Sanborn - 1885 - 684 pages
...1859. I. John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered...myself that without very much bloodshed it might be doue. "Without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins." This was John Brown's old-fashioned... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1885 - 526 pages
...that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now 1 84 think, vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done." [December 2nd, 1859.] Our retrospect would be incomplete did we not recall the events happening in... | |
 | George Alfred Townsend - 1886 - 590 pages
..." I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think, vainly flattered myself that, without very muck bloodshed, it might be done." As the four young men put their heads together to read this piece... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - United States - 1891 - 528 pages
...am Harper's Ferry. now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think, vainly flattered...that without very much bloodshed it might be done." 1 Within a year and a half from the day of his death, the North and the South were at war with each... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - United States - 1891 - 516 pages
...ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 279 now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think, vainly flattered...that without very much bloodshed it might be done." 1 Within a year and a half from the day of his death, the North and the South were at war with each... | |
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I. John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done. 
