 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1908 - 638 頁
...one of his prison guards on' the day of his execution, Brown gave this paper: CHABLEBTOWN, VA., Dec. 2, 1859. I, John Brown, am now quite certain that...myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.1 The two sentiments are almost identical, but how much more forcibly did Brown express his view... | |
 | Lorenzo Sears - 1909 - 410 頁
...Brown's hair who is to be executed on 2d Proximo. A SLAVE HOLDER. Charlestown, Fa., 2a* December, 1857. I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes...that without very much bloodshed it might be done. On this envelope John Brown, the night before his death, wrote the names of hotel and towns as directions... | |
 | William Edward Burghardt Du Bois - 1909 - 428 頁
...ye, buy, and eat ; yea, come, hny wine and milk without money and without price." "I, JOHN BKOWN, am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land...that without very much bloodshed it might be done." These were the last written words of John Brown, set down the day he died — the culminating of that... | |
 | Oswald Garrison Villard - 1910 - 816 頁
...hearts" of his countrymen, which, as Wendell Phillips said, had been "melted by that old Puritan soul:" "I John Brown am now quite certain that the crimes...that without very much bloodshed ; it might be done." l" * He had already determined, with absolute equanimity of spirit, the kind of coffin in which he... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - 1910 - 558 頁
...Virginia) (December 2, 1859). On the day of his execution he handed this paper to one of his guards: "I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes...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... | |
 | John Brown - 1910 - 686 頁
...quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I hadj as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done. "Without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins." This was John Brown's old-fashioned... | |
 | Oswald Garrison Villard - 1910 - 802 頁
...certain that the crimes of this guilty land: will never be purged away; but with Blood. I had ay 7 now think : vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed ; it might be done." m * He had already determined, with absolute equanimity of spirit, the kind of coffin in which he was... | |
 | Hill Peebles Wilson - 1913 - 464 頁
...Brown was handed to one of his guards in the jail on the morning of his execution. It read : «• I John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes...that without very much blood-shed it might be done. November 24th Governor Wise wrote to General Taliaferro, giving him directions as follows : Keep full... | |
 | Rupert Sargent Holland - 1913 - 312 頁
...carried out, and John Brown was hanged as a traitor. His last written words were, " I, John Brown, am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land...that without very much bloodshed it might be done." Every great cause in history has its martyrs, and John Brown was one of those who were sacrificed in... | |
 | Hill Peebles Wilson - 1913 - 462 頁
...morning of his execution. It read:475 ' . I John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes °f \ J> this guilty land will never be purged away but with...that without / very much blood-shed it might be done. n November 24th Governor Wise wrote to General Taliaferr<v giving him directions as follows : Keep... | |
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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. 
