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John Brown's Creed

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Parent Issue
Day
10
Month
June
Year
1891
Copyright
Public Domain
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r.rmvii placed emphasia on "doing". He despised "mere talk." He would do tor others' what he would have othera do tor htm. character of lus "doing" in Virginia, eonaidered trom. 8 military point of view. Btruck the country generally aa it dia ih yinint; Virginian, wlio asked in amazement, "Whai on earth do yon think yon could do here witli nineteen men?" The "folly of the thing" was the praise everywhere tossed about. Ir is by no meana certaln thar there was so much follyia it. as was generaliy euppoaed. Ir is claimed tbat o strong dofoncp cnn lx' inndo of Brown'a original plan. Ho said that lic betrayed himaeli by a too tender regard lor the feelinga of the inhamtanis. But, to wander In uneertain Bpeculationa of tlus sort, is to lose Blght of the whole Blgnificance of the deed aa it stamde confeaaed In history. What '.s of eonsequenee is to follow aloiijr the train of eventa lus nction marshaUed nto victorious motion awelllng the party opposed to slavery by milTiona of heart, fixlng. as the aucceedlng montha Uluatrated lus deed, ilv Blgnature oí the Nortb to the proclamation of the emanclpation of which Lincoln was ïmt the acribe. "A ncw saïnt." aaid Emerson, "than whom none purer or more brave waa ever led by love of man into eonfüct or death,- a' ne-w saint waiting lns martyrdom, and w-lm. H he shall suffer, will make tho gallora glorions likp the croas. - Krom -An Anti-Slavery Hero." by Stdney H. Morse, in New England Magazine for June.

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Ann Arbor Courier