The Capture and Execution of John Brown: A Tale of MartyrdomBrethren Publishing House, 1906 - 152 頁 |
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Andrew Hunter armed Armory building Arsenal Baltimore & Ohio bayonets BOLIVAR HEICHTS border Border Ruffian bridge Capt Captain John Avis CAPTURE OF HARPER'S citizens COMMANDING Cook and Hazlett court house CROSSED CROUND CUNS dead dear death engine-house Essex county excite executed father fear fired five force Free-State friends Glory guard guns hallelujah HALLTOWN Harper's Ferry insurgents insurrection JACKSON'S jailer Jefferson Jefferson County John Brown JOHN BROWN SONG John Brown's body John Brown's Fort Kansas killed liberated lived MARYLAND HEIGHTS militia Missouri Missourians Monument morning mountains negroes never night North Elba northern o'clock October 16 Ohio R. R. old Brown old jail Osawatomie party per's Ferry Potomac prisoners returned rifle river Ruffians rumor seized Shenandoah Shenandoah River shot Slavery slaves soldiers soon soul is marching Stevens stood tion town train trial troops UNION village Virginia visited wagon Washington wife wounded
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第 134 頁 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.
第 24 頁 - 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.
第 26 頁 - I believe that to have interfered as I have done, as I have always freely admitted I have done in behalf of His despised poor, I did no wrong, but right. 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 say, let it be done.
第 29 頁 - There is not one of them but joined me of his own accord, and the greater part of them at their own expense. A number of them I never saw and never had a word of conversation with till the day they came to me, and that was for the purpose I have stated. Now I have done.
第 24 頁 - ... them in Canada. I designed to have done the same thing again, on a larger scale. That was all I intended. I never did intend murder, or treason, or the destruction of property, or to excite or incite slaves to rebellion, or to make insurrection.
第 25 頁 - 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 so-called 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 been all right and every man in this court would have deemed it an act worthy of reward, rather than punishment.
第 89 頁 - Near the edge of the creek a dozen horses were tied, all ready saddled for a ride for life, or a hunt after southern invaders. A dozen rifles and sabres were stacked against the trees. In an open space, amid the shady and lofty woods, there was a great blazing fire with a pot on it ; a woman...
第 25 頁 - I endeavored to act up to that instruction. I say I am yet too young to understand that God is any respecter of persons. I believe that to have interfered as I have done...