Weekly Minnesotian and times., 1859-12-17
Correspondence Of the Minnesotian and Times.
Letter from Rev. Burdett Aart..--Old
e John Brown and Vifgimia Chivalry,

Correspondence Of the Minnesotian and Times.
Letter from Rev. Burdett Nart..-.Old
John Brown and Virgins Chivalry.
New HAVEN, Dec. I'd, 1859.
do not know how it is with you, but we,
on the sea-board, are having a real Minnesota
season. Last month was delightfully."- balmy,
like a long Indian summer. We had no cold
weather in it. Our winds, like our news, came
from the south, soft and invigorating. Such
a November has rarely been known here
Indeed, the fall and the summer before it have
a thousand times over reminded me of your
State. The nights in dog-days were cool and
a blanket was comfortable. We have had but
little rain this fall. In the summer we had
frequent but brief showers, and lawns and
leaves preserved their greenness till the frost
came. The grass has not yet lost it. Sitting
in the reading room of the Fontine this week,
I was struck with the emerald hue of our
famed Green. 1t is almost as deep and fresh
as in Jnne And the contrast with the brown
branches and bodies of the magnificent elms,
which have gone into winter quarters, only
makes the bright verdure more noticeable.
The gray squirrels, for whose comfort the
city has built score of houses in the trees,
have had a long harvest season by reason OF
the delay of winter. Contributions of choice
nuts have been freely scattered under the
elms, and no doubt their larders are well
stocked by this time. Certain savage CANNES,
who got taste Of squirrel and rather liked
it, preferring it to wild game or house bones,
have been warned, (after the Virginian fash.
ion, by our civil authorities, to leave the com.
monwealth or at least the city, lest pains and
penalties should come down upon them fo1
their barbarous inroad, at the hands of an in.
dignant community. Wouldn't it be a salu.
tary warning to the genus dog to hang one Of
these fellows, the military of the State, 25,0OC
strong, or so, guarding the gallows?
So far the winter is as mild as the autumn
We have had two days in which fire has beer
a nuisance. called on two friends to-day 8
little out of the city, in our pleasant suburb
Fair Haven, where, as you well know, Mr.
Editor-in-chief the oysters grow, and many
other things are fair beside the villages name
and the ladies were sitting with open win
dows, as though it were July instead of the
December that it is! The old lion has drawn
in his claws and put forth velvety paw Sc
far. May he be peaceable long.
At 2 o'clock to-day we got the news of Ole
John Browns execution. He kept his man
hood to the last. He walked on to the gallow.
with the dignity of an old Roman. 1t wa.
we'll that military forces kept the people bacl
from hearing any last words from the great In
vader. They would have rung forever in thei
ears like voice of doom. Virginia quailet
before this one bold man. His single arm
shook the pillars of the Commonwealth. Th'
scared State clamored for his blood.
Well, he is dead. He died as the fool di
eth. But, has he, in his dying, killed Virgin
ia? We shall see. Possibly the panic is cir
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events, history will have new chapter here
after-on great scares.
President Buchanan has very forcibly,
not very elegantly, characterized the who'll
fuss.
This affair suggested subjects for discourse
on Thanksgiving day and there about. DR.
Bacon, our pulpit Hercules, preached pow
erful discourse from these words in Isaiah -
" All thy children shall be taught of the Lord
and great shall be the peace of thy children
In righteousness shalt thou be established
thou shalt be far from oppression; for tho,
shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shal
not come near thee"
He contrasted the peace of our Common
wealth, whose laws and institutions are bull
on righteousness, with the terror of Stat,
whose laws and institutions are based on Cd
preston; giving his sermon force and poin
by mastery graphing with the Virginiar
difficulties.
Another of our preachers took for his text
these words in Leviticus -" The sound of .
shaken leaf shall chase them" The doctrin,
of the discourse was, that the violation of tn
Divine law in States, necessitates perpetua
panic. The illustration was furnished by tn
fear Of Virginia.