...death he handed to one of his guards a paper on which he had written this sentence. " Charlestown, December 2, 1859 : * I, John Brown, am now quite certain...that without very much bloodshed it might be done.' " Within eighteen months this prediction was fulfilled by the outbreak of the American Civil War. Browning,...

...press. His final words, written on a scrap of paper he handed to his jailers, resonated across the land: "I John Brown am now quite certain that the crimes...that without very much bloodshed; it might be done." Slaveholder Randal W. McGavock, mayor of Nashville, Tennessee, and a respected man of letters, recorded...

...convictions were preserved for posterity by a note he handed to a jailer while being led to the gallows: "I John Brown am now quite certain that the crimes...myself that without very much bloodshed: it might be done."18 With similar conformity, Brown's beliefs and actions demonstrated his rigid "higher" morality,...

...country." On the morning of his execution, December 2, he wrote out with a steady hand his final prophecy, that "the crimes of this guilty, land: will never...without very much bloodshed; it might be done."'" Governor Henry A. Wise, fearing an effort to free the prisoner, ordered fifteen hundred soldiers to...

...quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had as \ now think vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be down... John Brown. Jim sat in his cold 6X8 foot cindered blocked drab cell. The white washed wall...

...Shortly before his death, John Brown gave his jailer a short, two-sentence note in which he wrote: "I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes...that without very much bloodshed it might be done." Even though John Brown's body was now "a mouldering in the grave," his legacy would go "marching on."...

...jail cell to be hanged, he handed this note to his jailer: "Charles Town, Va., December 2, 1859. 1, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of...that without very much bloodshed it might be done." In our smaller scale, we anti-war activists were also guilty of thinking we could stop the war by modest...

...who supported slavery and helped push the nation toward war. On the day of his death, Brown wrote, "I, John Brown am now quite certain that the crimes...that without very much bloodshed, it might be done." Brown was right. A sea of blood would be spilled before slavery came to an end. In fact, more Americans...

...death. On December 2, the day of execution, Brown scrawled on a sheet of paper he left with his jailer, "I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes...that without very much bloodshed it might be done." As he was taken to the scaffold on that sunny morning, Brown looked at the Blue Ridge Mountains in...

...hanged in Charles Town, Virginia, on December 2, 1860. In his last written statement, he said he was "quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land...that without very much bloodshed, it might be done." His words were prophetie. Less than two years later, Abraham Lincoln would be elected president, the...