The weekly Anglo-African., 1859-12-17
We shall not search history to find John;

III We shall not search history to find job
#Brown's model He found none there hin
q self, and certainly we shall not; but W
5Eshall point the future citizen, the futur
statesman, the future Christian, and tn
Il future historian to him, as a model. /
Il dealing with the affairs of the world, me-
Hseldom come up to their own convictions o
fright, much less act up to the right itself
and hence it is that Brown rises infnitel,
|above all who have gone before or are con
temporaneous with him. Living and act
ling not only up to his own convictions, bu
Ito the convictions of truth, and justice, ant
humanity, no matter what may be said t
the contrary, John Brown scared far abov
the common feelings, the common weak
nesses, and the common purposes of men
land stands forth today as patriot, Chris
Etian, and mana model for the world.
q His execution surely was no ordinary
Eevent. This is the verdict of the nation
@When led to scaffold, as a sheep before hi
Il shearers, he opened not his mouth; anC
= yet it required all the civil and military
#strength of Virginia, and the proffered aic
ssof her sister States, to perform the act
Il while nearly the other half of the nation
4 sat in gloom and in tears, or in solemn
q moody silence.
b Pontius Plate and those who acted will
shim thought when they crucifed Chris
they had got rid of his doctrines and prin
Eciples; so do those who have murdered
Thrown. Delusive thought! Vainly die
Sthose of the past reckon, and as vainly dc
@these modern Pontius Pilates and this mis-
Hguided people calculate. They cannot
Eeradicate the principles of liberty and jus
#tice-we mean the living spring that is in
every bosom. No laws, no tyranny, nc
|ssophistry, no chains, no whips, no blood
ano scafold, no cross can eradicate it. Il
Ills as broad as the earth; it reaches as high
|sas heaven, and is as enduring as eternity
4itself!
j Brown died for liberty-iberty in Amer
|Hca He refused to Gala legion of men tc
Y save him from the death marked out fol
@him by his enemies and the enemies of lib
zerty, preferring rather that his blood should
i nurse the seeds thereof He refused tore
ceive from the whining, canting priesthood
1.-THE consultations of an accursed slavehold-
1 ling religion, bidding them rather to seek
First for themselves and those who exer-
( cised authority over them the true and liv-
] ling God-the God of the oppressed, the
aGod of immutable justice. Leave my
Scell, sir !" was his command on one occa-
sion to one OF these sanctimonious priests
] He refused to be followed to the scaffOld by
I any one Of those whose robes are dyed in
Athe sin and guilt of slavery. II would
Eprefer," said he-and these are among his
{ last words-"I would prefer rather to be
accompanied TO the scaffold by dozen
little slave children and good old slave
mother, with their appeals to God for
blessings on my soul, than all the elo-
quence of the whole clergy of the Com
3monwealth combined"
With these memorable words, John
Brown firmly but meekly stepped forth to-
meet his unjust doom, and without groan,
without a sigh, without struggle even,
! but with thousand thousand prayers, he
was launched into the presence of his God
There we are well content to leave him.
Such was the man who suffered martyr
! dom on Virginia scafold on the second
day of December, 1859. He died that
liberty might live and triumph. Let us
! who survive him swear by the living God
THAT from this day forth we will live only
THAT liberty may live-that it may live not
sonly here in America, but reign triumph
ant throughout the world And let us
/ swear our children on that same altar to
] the same end, and swear them, too, to
swear their children and their children's
children, down to the latest posterity, on|
J that same altar, to the same answering
purpose /! W. ]. W.
A PRoTEsr.-Justice Catron, of the Uni
tied States Supreme Court, has publicly
and earnestly protested, in Nashville,
Tenn, his residence, against an act now
pending in the Legislature of his State,
which provides that free colored persons
! shall be seized and sold, if found in Ten
nessee after the LIST day of May next, if
athey are adults; and that, if children, they
shall be bound out; and the adults to bel
allowed to emigrate to Africa, in which
case some slight aid isto be furnished them
I by the State to assist in their transporta-
ton, or they are to be allowed to seek al