The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1859-12-13
The John Brown Fund.

FRIENDS The Fund has nov reached the sum
of s l2i so; :l05 OF which is a contribution
from the Church o. the Puritaus, DR.. Cheevers.
The sum of five dollars is also sent from Connect
icut, a. will be seen from the following:
"MYsric RIVER, Conn, Dee =, 1852
Editor Tribune, " We had 4 John
Brown meeting here this evening. Much en-
thusiasm was manifested and our Ia Ic>t hai vas
filed 10 Overlooking Emancipation never re-
ceved 4 greater impulse than from john Brown :
II ovsnent and his fate. The ilcl'Sed 3 Is for
the John Brown Family Fund, il being the bal
lnce OF collectioa 10 deiray vNpcuSe g! hall,
which proved more than sufficient Tor that par
pose VIII YOU direct it 10 that object, and ae-
+ knowledge recep, in Y'riJ'uis, aud obligc VI.
/ "A Pastor" writes from Illinois n fo!loss
/ Enclosed are 81 for the dear old mau
feel almost a. if my Own father were IN the hands
OF bloody men :; nav soul i so-roHiU. Tor him,
May his death Kill Savery-amen. ". Is. G"
/ From Wiilamsburgh, Dee 3. l.. : |. writes a.
/ follows;
"DEAR SIX: Inclosei is one dollar. l wish 20
possess portrait OF that noble OLD hero, ycSter-
DAVIS bleeding sacrifice 10 the Moloch OF slavery.
/ O!d Osawatomie Brown. " hen shall an end
OF these things be- Wait little longer
/ Under ia,e of Dee l, j. b, in behalf Of ten
subscribers, sends $40. aud the following:
"pEAE SIR: We see daily, through the col
umus Of the press, numerous letters, expressing
most deeply feelings OF sympathy Tor Ola john
Brown and his afflicted family. And We sab
scribe our names among the number who Coadoe
with him and them. There are brave men IN
/ .Old Essex County vet. and those that DO sin
ccrcly sympathize with him, and who will express
their views more freely than ever in relation To-
/ Freedom Hoping our little subscription NAV
prove a benefit to his afflicted family, please send
US ten photographs of tho odd Hero # Ia per
/ Ferry.
! Lucy y. {. ct Rochester writes, saving:
/ PLEASE find inclcsed my subscription ior t,.
/ likeness of dear Old John Rrown. Ii j. per-
petual beredicticn that | have long known him.
/ Is there not John Brown ia every true soul
Yours. for the emancipation OF every slave
/ f. f. of New York saw.
/ Every true friend of Freedom l. moral, and
/ indirectly the accompGcc OF John Brown. Every
man who hates slavery, and Is not afraid TO au-
swer for his principles aud their coI~. 'igsrcc- Is
| his accomphce
| f. l.. u. OF otsego county, uulcr date Of NOV.
II, writes thus:
/ 81 weep with his stricken family Vet / rejoice
with him. What a glorious destiny, 60 he coUnt-
ed worthy To become a martyr Ia the cause oi
/ Freedom | only pray that hc may DOT fail va
4, his apothcos- shall bc completed cd bless
/ you and all who all hi- afflicted family.
/ Mrs L. Mar. Child, on the 27th of Nov, again
writes A. follows
/ =. How many hearts will he ihrohhiuC with aiN-
/ icty for him during this week IL is @oudctial
hov the moral greatness Of the mau towers above
all the adverse circumstances that surround bum
/ How futile are all their efforts 10 degrade him :
/ They do but cou-ccratc the gItiorS n trying 90
degrade him
| The above are amons five hundred letters re
cevcd by me during the past five hundred hours,
and the fund amounts 10 81, l2i 81, or - - per
! hour from the beginning But while tie rc>p"I-
.vc heart of the North has been thus suhstau-
TALLY sympathizing with ihe one whom they adj
mire, and vcneratc, and love, the great soul 10
self has passed away into the eternal heavens
During the eighteen centuries which have passed,
no such character has appeared among men.
The galleries of the reSpuudinE ages echo with
no football mightier than the martyr at toLls.
lie has gone, Efforts TO save him we're iruites--
Prayers were unavailiug. He stood before his
murlercrs dehLutly, asking no mercy. Ior God
and for His poor in the effort 10 practically real
ize living Gospel he dared 10 tail, where tail
ure worked a forfeiture of lie. In this sublime
endeayor-in this sef-immolatiou, living bis
hand upon the eternal and the true, he found his
strength within the vail Rapt in the future.
lost 10 the present God aud His EtcrulUcs held
his gsze amid earths whifl. Brwilicrei not,
undaunted not the shifting scenes OF his LIES
drama at the last brought To him neither t. gretS
nor foreboiings- Having finished the work
nich God had given him to DO, tins apostle 81
a new dspensatiOn, in imitation of the Divine, re-
ceis.i with fortitude his baptism Of blood. And
thus, beholding the heavens opened and Jesus
standing at the right hand Of the throne Of God,
this last of Christian Martyrs stepped proudly
and calmly upon the scatloli, and thence upward
into the embrace Of Angels, and into the gene
raj assembly and church OF the first-bjrn, Who.
names are written in heaven.
New York Dec. ;. THApBFrs llYATT.
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