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James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 11: the political inquisitors. (search)
ate the champions or friends of the Republican party. From the South came Governor Wise and Senator Mason of Virginia; from the North, a United States Marshal named Johnson, and Mr. Vallandingham, ahat many of them, in silence, have already retracted their words. Read his admirable answers to Mason and others. Now they are dwarfed and defeated by the contrast! On the one side, half-brutish, heir subsequent views of those events, as met at Harper's Ferry, when Captain John Brown and Senator Mason -the abolitionist and the extraditionist — the slave liberator in virtue of the higher law, er of Virginia! The reader will notice, also, how the two earnest men respected each other; how Mason, the fanatic, unlike his compromising compeer, was courteous to the old man, fearless and almost reverential in his questionings. The conversation. Senator Mason. Can you tell us, at least, who furnished money for your expedition? Capt. Brown. I furnished most of it myself. I cannot i
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 2: Judicial alacrity. (search)
hteen hundred and fifty-nine, in the said County of Jefferson, and Commonwealth of Virginia, and within the jurisdiction of this Court, not having the fear of God before their eyes, but moved and seduced by the false and malignant counsels of others, and the instigations of the devil, did each severally, maliciously, and feloniously conspire with each other, and with a certain John E. Cook, John Kagi, Charles Tidd, and others to the Jurors unknown, to induce certain slaves, to wit, Jim, Sam, Mason, and Catesby . ... the slaves and property of Lewis W. Washington, and Henry, Levi, Ben, Jerry, Phil, George, and Bill, the slaves and property of John H. Allstadt, and other slaves to the Jurors unknown, to rebel and make insurrection against their masters and owners, and against the Government and the Constitution and laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia: and then and there did maliciously and feloniously advise said slaves, and other slaves to the Jurors unknown, to rebel and make insurre
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 3: State evidence. (search)
ther side — for he was too feeble to walk alone,--and laid down on his cot within the bar. See the engraving. The author of the Fugitive Slave Law was present. Did he know that he was witnessing the beginning of the end of the rule of the wicked Power that he represents? Did he think that the wounded old man on the pallet was undermining, with his every groan and breath, the foundations of Human Slavery in America? As John Brown embodied the Northern religious anti-slavery idea, so Senator Mason, who now gazed at him, incarnated the Southern idolatrous principle of infidelity to man. Yet, seemingly, how reversed did their positions appear! The Slave Liberator with no earthly prospect but a speedy death on the gallows; and the Slave Extraditionist buoyed up with the hope of soon filling the Presidential Chair! A plea of insanity. The plea of insanity-first advanced by political monomaniacs in the Northern States, who could not understand a heroic action when they saw one,