John Brown, 1800-1859: A Biography Fifty Years AfterThe present volume is inspired by a belief that fifty years after the Harper's Ferry tragedy, the time is ripe for a study of John Brown, free from bias, from the errors in taste and fact of the mere panegyrist, and from the blind prejudice of those who can see in John Brown nothing but a criminal. The pages that follow were written to detract from or champion no man or set of men, but to put forth the essential truths of history as far as ascertainable, and to judge Brown, his followers and associates in the light thereof. -- Adapted from the preface. |
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... committee of the Massachusetts Legislature as a representative of the best type of old New England citizenship . It is undeniable , too , that the influence of his ancestry was a powerful one throughout Brown's entire life . In some ...
... committee of the Massachusetts Legislature as a representative of the best type of old New England citizenship . It is undeniable , too , that the influence of his ancestry was a powerful one throughout Brown's entire life . In some ...
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... Committee of the trustees had been authorized by the board to perfect negotiations and convey to " Brother John Brown of Hudson One Thousand acres of our Virginia Land on conditions suggested in the correspondence . . . between him and ...
... Committee of the trustees had been authorized by the board to perfect negotiations and convey to " Brother John Brown of Hudson One Thousand acres of our Virginia Land on conditions suggested in the correspondence . . . between him and ...
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... Committee would have done nearer the thing that is right had they at least signified their wish to know my determina- tion , before putting it out of their power to perform what they had engaged . Probably I was not so prompt in makeing ...
... Committee would have done nearer the thing that is right had they at least signified their wish to know my determina- tion , before putting it out of their power to perform what they had engaged . Probably I was not so prompt in makeing ...
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... committee , nor from becoming a member of the first Territorial Executive Committee , an outgrowth of the Big Springs convention of September 5.30 - When the fraudulent Pawnee Legislature convened , July 2 , 1855 , it enacted , true to ...
... committee , nor from becoming a member of the first Territorial Executive Committee , an outgrowth of the Big Springs convention of September 5.30 - When the fraudulent Pawnee Legislature convened , July 2 , 1855 , it enacted , true to ...
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... Committee * reported that fully 584 of these were illegal.45 - * Authorized by the House of Representatives , March 19 , 1856 , to investigate the Kansas situation . It consisted of William A. Howard , of Michigan , John Sherman , of ...
... Committee * reported that fully 584 of these were illegal.45 - * Authorized by the House of Representatives , March 19 , 1856 , to investigate the Kansas situation . It consisted of William A. Howard , of Michigan , John Sherman , of ...
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Page 564 - John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection. It was an attempt by white men to get up a revolt among slaves, in which the slaves refused to participate. In fact it was so absurd that the slaves, with all their ignorance, saw plainly enough it could not succeed. That affair, in its philosophy, corresponds with the many attempts, related in history, at the assassination of kings and emperors. An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned...
Page 540 - Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; The labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; The flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
Page 499 - Now, if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children and with the blood of millions in this slave country, whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments, I submit. So let it be done.
Page 499 - Let me say also a word in regard to the statements made by some of those connected with me. I hear it has been stated by some of them that I have induced them to join me. But the contrary is true. I do not say this to injure them, but as regretting their weakness.
Page 551 - ... feelings and wrongs have placed us. I have now no doubt but that our seeming disaster will ultimately result in the most glorious success. So, my dear, shattered, and broken family, be of good cheer, and believe and trust in God with all your heart and with all your soul, for he doeth all things well.
Page 498 - In the first place, I deny everything but what I have all along admitted, of a design on my part to free slaves. I intended certainly to have made a clean thing of that matter, as I did last winter when I went into Missouri, and there took slaves without the snapping of a gun on either side, moving them through the country, and finally leaving them in Canada.
Page 497 - Brown whether he had anything to say why sentence should not be pronounced upon him.
Page 646 - This, and one other American speech, that of John Brown to the court that tried him, and a part of Kossuth's speech at Birmingham, can only be compared with each other, and with no fourth.
Page 563 - that new saint, than whom none purer or more brave was ever led by love of men into conflict and death — the new saint awaiting his martyrdom, and who, if he shall suffer, will make the gallows glorious like the cross ;" and this sentiment was responded to with enthusiasm by the immense audience of Tremont Temple.
Page 538 - These light afflictions, which are but for a moment, shall work out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.