...note to his wife in his thin, cramped script, enclosed in which was a statement for public release: "I John Brown am now quite certain that the crimes...myself that without very much bloodshed; it might be done."5 The sheriff asked the prisoner if he would like a handkerchief to drop as a signal. The prisoner...

...execution. Brown handed one of his guards a statement that became widely publicized in abolitionist circles. I John Brown am now quite certain that the crimes...myself that without very much bloodshed; it might be done.14 Not long after the raid it became public knowledge that two very prominent first-generation...

...scaffold, he handed an onlooker this message: "I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of the guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood....that without very much bloodshed it might be done." It was a prophetic message, for within two years the Civil War, America's bloodiest conflict, was to...

...he produced a final document in his handwriting. Scrawled on a small piece of paper were the words: I John Brown am now quite certain that the crimes...that without very much bloodshed; it might be done. Brown has all too often been accused of sparking the flames of the Civil War, though in fact he was...

...be hanged John Brown scribbled his last prophetic message on a piece of paper. I, John Brown, am now certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never...that without very much bloodshed it might be done. The vast company of soldiers that escorted him to the gallows included Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson,...

...of treason, and he was sentenced to hang. On the day of his execution, December 2, 1859, he wrote, "I John Brown am now quite certain that the crimes...that without very much bloodshed: it might be done" (quoted in Oates 1970:351). In his death, Brown became a symbol for the abolitionist movement. The...

...gallows-stair, Von einem Pfaffen, der das Brod Put up a prayer for me"! Der Sklavenhalter ißt. 454 „I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes...that without very much bloodshed it might be done", zitiert nach Scott, John Brown of Harper's Ferry, 159. 455 Vgl. Scott aaO., VII, 159, 171. 456 Abgedruckt...

...recalls the italicized warnings against the devils among us in the Puritan sermons he held so dear: "I John Brown am now quite certain that the crimes...that without very much bloodshed; it might be done." Across the guilty land, Brown's execution was either celebrated or mourned with ringing church bells,...

...to the scaffold restated the zealous creed that would inspire the North in the subsequent Civil War: "I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes...myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done."21 One indication of the powerful appeal of this ideal was the response it aroused in the North,...

...handed a sheet of paper to one of the guards, and on it were words, connected by puzzling punctuation: I John Brown am now quite certain that the crimes...myself that without very much bloodshed; it might be done.6 "Brown was a righteous man," Delbert blurts out in a high-pitched voice that sounds very distant...