Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-12-10

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The Day and the Deed OF Blood.
IL During cur absence yesterday, from illness
our assistant indited an article relative TO tn
probable execution of John Brown and hi
compatriots, by the scared and infuriatet
Slayeibreeders Of Virginia.
| That the carnival Of blood took place a.
per programme; there is too much reason t.
baaisse. . In one of cur recent exchanges, WI
find the following snft letter from Gov. Wiss
/ to the Rev. VIM. G., Whitcomb, of Lynch
field Mass, in which the ''yery sympathy "ex
pressed for Brown, and the appeals for n.eres
in his behalf made to. the Virginian executive
ere offered as principal reasons why bis bloot
should be 7shedl Read the letter. go Ats!
0 REE. SR: The very sympathy with ,Jof,r
Brown, so general. so fanaticai,Y SO oregardles'
Of social safety; and so irreverent Of the reigr
of law, demands his execution, if sentenced
by the Courts. The laws he insulted and out
ragged are now protecting all his rights Of de-
tense and all his claims to money!
'-,,I-' o,I1 r'r ~ ~, Truly yours, =
80 1!"' '>'' ..'j 49,, HENRY A. WISE. i
Rev. WV. C. WHITcoMB. r..1..tc. y a27l
This letter, along with the latest telegraph.
ic utterances, leave no room for hope that
Virginia did not, on Friday, the Second Day Of
December, 1s59, imbrue her hands in the
blood Of John Brow and his associates Leave
no room for hope, that the " Mother Of Presi-
DENTS" whose borders contain the glorious
field of Yorktown and the ashes Of Washing
ton, did not, on the Second Day of December,
1859. slay the brave, though mistaken de-
scendant of a. Revolutionary ancestor who
probably fought on that field, under the eye
of that Washington, in defence Of her soil, to
give her sons Liberty i1aonuyq,& .a~
~ Good God and is il true 9--is it possible? ?
That in the Nineteenth Century-in Repub-
lican Advertisements blood flows on the scat
fold for an Idea the Idea, that man.
kind have the right to the ownership Of them
selves ani their families dying for the Truth
enunciated by Thomas Jefferson, that 8 All
Men are created Equalr' e 0".I '' .hnaA
The Execution of John Brown yesterday
we regard as an Event truly big with future
immense consequences. That Day-the Sec
ond Day Of December, 1S59-will indeed be
memorable in future ages as a Day marking
A4rtyr,lonas for LIBERTY las Day second
only in, American Annals, to the Day of the
Declaration Of Independence itself, for its
grave and important Consequences. ..t
From that Day, forward, commenced in
good earnest, that Irrepressible Conflict be-
tween Freedom and Slavery, to which our
Statesmen have referred.
By denying mercy to brave, monomaniacal,
mistaken, but honest JOHN Brown and his as
sociates-hi:n and them enobled, amidst all
their mistakes of means to an end" by the
unselish, ,lisinterested Elea which animated
them-the Idea Of giving Freedom to the En-
shaved and Oppressed, Without profit to them
solces-by thus embruing their hands in their
blood, the myrmidons of Slavery have precip-
itated a " Conflict" which else would have pro-
sressed slowly, moderately, safely, to all con-
cerned, until the Curse and Shame of our
Land had been gradually removed from it
But Slav ery-Virei einia-has,by this bloody
deed, commenced the battle, by the deliberate,
eeol, cruel, unnecessary shedding of the life
blood of BRowN and his compatriots-an,i
woe! woe woe! it win be, henceforward, to
t., Virginia and to Slavery. ,.
The red s'Southern sum-" that, with il,
warm rays, yesterday dried up from the scat
fad, tie blood Of those who are now Martyrs
# LIBERTY will, we fear, grow redder STILL in
reaeciing on his lurid disc, fields CORY Wit,
the victims of Retrioution aud Fengeancc!
THE voice Of thy brothers blood, Virgin.
ia, crieth unto me from the ground.
"And now art thou cursed from the earth,
which has opened her mouth to receive thy
bother's blood fron thy hand. -..
"When thou tillest the ground, it shall not
henceforth yield thee her strength: A fugi-
tive and vagabond shalt thou be in the
earth, ,........ .. g..
-"And Cain Virginia. said unto the Lore,
my punishment is greater than can bear "