The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-11-11
From the New York Herald.
Browns Speech Before Sentence.

Browns Speech Before Sentence.
Old Brown has pricked the bubble of
glory which Greedy. Weed, Wendell
Phillips and all his other Black republi-
can coadjutors have been assiduously blow
ing for him. lie sets aside the proflercd
honors of martyred hero, and claims to
bc nothing more than niger stcaler.-
How the black republicans will harmo-
n1e his declaration, that hc merely de-
sired to run off few negroes from Vir:
ginia, just as he acknowledges he had
done from Missouri, with all his prepared
pnraphernalia Of a new constitution for the
United States, with it's Cabinet of officers,
and Commander-in-Ch of its armies, all
regularly appointed and commissioned
in Canada, we have yet to sec. To us
the whole thing looks supremcly ridcu-
lous, and we should not wonder If Gree
ley would now be willing that Old Browns
! epitaph be written at once, instead OF
waiting for that underlined but high
sounding period of time to which he at
first wished it to be deferred. The fact
is, Brown has satisfied them all, and gone
very far towards proving himself pious
liar as well as pious ruflian. We hope
kagi, the Tribune's correspondent, will
give us his version of the plot and when
Seward, Giddings, Gerrit Smith, Greedy,
and all the other conspirators and Access
series before the faI re brought into
Court on the trial of Wsk, we shall get a
further insight to it.
In Browns speech there are some
points worth noticing. He acknowledges
the truthfulness of the witnesses, and his
entire satisfaction with the treatment he
has received from the Court, but lie claims
that he should not be punished for what
| he has done. lie never intended muir.
, der or treason. 1t is true he committed
both, but, clinging to Stewards higher
law, he believes that it was right for him
to do so. This is the logical result of the
black republican teachings, and forms
the irrcpressiblc conflict" of the brutal
and bloody Rochester manifesto. In
p this path of treason Brown and Wen
, dell Phillips are but step in advanc,
r of Seward and Horace Greeley; these are
= closely followed by Corwin and Wilson
ard behind tn EN- march the rest OF til,
: party, all advancing on the same broad
. way of treason to the constitution anG
t murder of their fellow citizens. The pal
: latives that Brown alleges in his spcecl
: are those inculcatcd by the orators o
i the party and repeated by their humble
followers. How few of these reflect tina
n their course leads them to treason, anC
for this the law prescribes the penalty.
n PooR-BuT PLENTY TO EAr.-When tn,
= Ojibbewa Indians paid visit to Queer
n Victoria, the principal chief, after tn,
IS ceremony of presentation, madea speech
n of which the following significant par
o agraph is an extract:
d Mother: We have seen many strang
things since we came to this country
q We see that your wigwams are large, ant
the light that comes in is bright; OH
= wigwams "are small, and our lights is no
e strong. We are not rich JM haze plenty {
= cM."
q What bitter sarcasm is conveyed il
=. these tow simple words of the Chief, OF
the men who tax peoples food and re
II strict their industry-who, not Statistic,
o with the vast wealth bountiiully bestow
e ed on them, must seize part of the poo
q mans lot to swell their already burstin
golfers