John Brown, 1800-1859: A Biography Fifty Years AfterHoughton Mifflin, 1910 - 738 páginas The 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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Términos y frases comunes
Abolitionists Adair April arms arrived asked attack August Border Ruffians Boston camp Capt Captain Charlestown citizens Colonel Committee County Creek December dollars F. B. Sanborn father fight force Frederick Frederick Brown Free Soil Free Soilers friends Gerrit Smith Governor Wise hand Harper's Ferry Henry Thompson Higginson Hinton Historical Society Collections horses hundred James Jason Brown John Brown Jones June Kagi Kansas Historical Society killed Lane Lawrence leader Leavenworth Lecompton Legislature letter lives March miles Missouri Missourians N. Y. Herald N. Y. Tribune National Kansas Committee negro night North Elba November October Ohio Original in possession Osawatomie Owen Brown party peace persons possession of Miss prisoners pro-slavery raid reported returned rifles Robinson Salmon Brown Sanborn settlers Shannon shot slavery slaves statement Stearns Sumner Tabor Territory tion Topeka town Townsley Virginia wife William wounded wrote York
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Página 499 - I feel entirely satisfied with the treatment I have received on my trial. Considering all the circumstances, it has been more generous than I expected. But I feel no consciousness of guilt.
Página 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.
Página 498 - I have, may it please the Court, a few words to say. In the first place, I deny everything but what I have all along admitted, — the design on my part to free the 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, moved them through the country, and finally left them in Canada.
Página 554 - 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.3
Página 538 - These light afflictions, which are but for a moment, shall work out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.
Página 498 - Had I interfered in the manner which I admit, and which I admit has been fairly proved (for I admire the truthfulness and candor of the greater portion of the witnesses who have testified in this case), — had I so interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful, the intelligent, the socalled great, or in behalf of any of their friends, — either father, mother, brother, sister, wife, or children, or any of that class, — and suffered and sacrificed what I have in this interference, it would have...
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