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armory at ... One month before his execution, John Brown addressed a courtroom 
in ... Ralph Waldo emerson said: "He will make the gallows holy as the cross." ... 
Had I interfered in the manner which I admit, and which I admit has been fairly... [DOC] [TLE] Virginia v. John Brown - Wikipedia [PAR] Virginia v. John Brown was a criminal trial held in Virginia in October 1859 to 
prosecute anti-slavery abolitionist John Brown for his involvement in ... In a 
Virginia state court, he was found guilty, and hanged. ... Brown attended the trial 
supine upon a cot, since he had suffered multiple saber wounds when captured. 
During the... [DOC] [TLE] A Study in Leadership and Change: The John Brown Raid and the ... [PAR] For many weeks before the Raid, Brown and his men had hidden on the ... 
Narrator 3: Ironically, the first man killed was not a slave-holder, or even a slave, 
but ... A reporter said he approached the Engine House, made a pillow for one of 
the ... of freedom for the enslaved ended when he was hanged on December 2, 
1859. [DOC] [TLE] Consolidation and Schism 1821-1861 The Tree of Liberty [PAR] Blacks and Native Americans (not to mention women) were totally excluded from 
the ... After trial, eighteen slaves were put to death, some by hanging and others 
by ... Thomas Gray claimed to have taken Nat Turner's confession prior to his trial 
... he who commences any reform which at last becomes one of transcendent... [DOC] [TLE] The Trial Of John Brown | American History Lives at American Heritage [PAR] I have had no counsel: I have not been able to advise with any one. ... Searching 
his Bible he had found quotation after quotation to support his ... This was the 
attack on Harpers Ferry, which Brown made on Sunday night, October 16, 1859. 
.... Before either of the prosecuting attorneys could say a word, Brown rose from 
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he was hanged in Harpers Ferry, Virginia, for having plotted ... Brown had been 
convicted by a military court one month earlier; at his trial, he delivered his last 
speech. ... Thoreau said that most men simply mark time from birth to death, and 
the... [DOC] [TLE] John Brown and Henry David Thoreau eText - Primary Source ... [PAR] These are the two ends of a chain that is not without its links. ... On December 2, 
1859, he was hanged in Harpers Ferry, Virginia, for having ... Brown had been 
convicted by a military court one month earlier; at his trial, he delivered his last 
speech. ... Thoreau said that most men simply mark time from birth to death, and 
the... [DOC] [TLE] Chapter 13: A House Divided, 1840-1861 | Give Me Liberty! An ... [PAR] 123456789101112 ... This appeal to immigrants of the state was published three 
years before John L. Sullivan ... How did he characterize the Mexican 
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nations make its ... is destined, at no distant day, to revolutionize the whole 
commercial, political,... [DOC] [TLE] JohnBrown1.doc [PAR] When I strike, he told one of his followers, the bees will swarm. ..... to commit 
treason, or excite slaves to rebel or make any general insurrection. ... much that I 
had before intended to say, and did not convey the full bearing of what I then said
. .... of the guards by Brown on the morning of his execution, December 2, 1859. [DOC] [TLE] John Brown (abolitionist) - Fold3 [PAR] President Abraham Lincoln said he was a "misguided fanatic" and Brown has ... 
His role and actions prior to the Civil War, as an abolitionist

Question: One month prior to his hanging on December 2, 1859, he said that he had no design to "excite slaves to rebel"
Answer: John Brown