The Kansas herald of freedom. [volume] (Wakarusa, Kan. Territory) 1854-1860, 1859-12-10

delivered an address before large audience
in Lebanon, Ohio, in which, among other
things, he is reported to have spoken a.
follows:
Now / am brought to the consideration
of particular matter or two in our history,
in which / think great mistakes pervade
the country.
A poor man by the name of John Brown
has gone to Harper's Ferry, in Virginia.
few negroes there, "Ihave some thousand or
fifteen hundred, believe, Of pixies with iron
or steel at the end Of them about that long
"a foot,) and these things will kill a man
expertly, easily and quick; with these pixies
l wish you to kill as many white men as
come in your way, and run with me-" These
men were slaves to whom these pixies were
tendered-negro slaves by the law Of Vir-
ginia. They irere sldres by lar nth uhieh
you and hare no more TO do than nth the
lars of the Hindoos, or Of France. That 10
our compact.
Walker, Gen. Walker, blue-eyed Walker,
bright blue-eyed Walker, the man of des-
tiny, gathers together a set of vagabonds,
as we call them-men very imperfectly
clothed, singularly rubicund about the nose
and blistered about the lips, with strong
taste of Bourbon whiskey and an ardent
love of liberty-he gathers his people to-
gether (reminding us of David, who could
only get men to follow him that were in
debt and could not pay), but these fellows
are great friends Of liberty. Blue-eyed
Walker says, 81 will go to Nicaragua and
let in the sunlight of liberty upon these poor
people, black, brown, Spanish brown, and
deep blue, of all compilations Of the rain
bow.n Blue-eyed Walker is unhappy
These people want liberty, and he gathers
these red-nosed men together, and they got
abroad to Nicaragua, and blue-eyed Walker
says: "Lo come, the millennium is. on the
way, the Aurora is on the sky" The Mic
arauguan says, al don't see the Aurora"
and blue-eyed Walker says al will shoot
the brains out Of you, if you can't see it."
Ever since the days of Hugo Grotius, it
has been the moral law of nations, that one
nation shall not interfere with another.
Grotius is writer that is neglected by our
law students nowadays; they prefer Will
cox's Forms, and Swans Duty of Admins
traitors, to the reading Of a man who was
not only jurist, but historian, a poet,
and profound philosopher, and one who
worked out in his brain, that it was the true
moral obligation of nations, one to another,
as it was the duty of one man to another,
to let alone the family concerns of his neigh
Dor, until they concerned him.
Blue-eyed Walker has not regarded Gro
thus. He sends people to the grave instead
of to school, that being his way of educa-
ting men-boring hole through the brain
to let in the light.
We hare contracted with the people of euery
State to let them alone. We hare promised
them, and hence arises my notion Of the moral
obligation to fulfil that promise.
/ don't know what Brown may have
thought on this subject. They say he is an
honest man. Some may doubt it, but all al
low he may be honest after fashion, or az
Hamlet has it in the play, "indifferent hon.
est" don't doubt, by what we hear said,
that he suffered much in Kansas that he
became little irritated, and hence little
insane. That may be all true, but he must
have been very strange moral philosopher,
if he would 60 to Harper's Ferry, in Vir-
ginia, and kill as many women and children
as could be reached with those pixies, be-
cause some vagabond killed his son in Kan
sas. But Brown went on the idea that the
whole system was wrong. He may have
reasoned in that way, but think l might
as well say I will kill Mr.. Morris, or my
friend Smith, simply because one Of my
ancestors had son that killed his brother.
It is perfectly certain that Adam had two
sons, and one knocked out the others
brains, as we suppose, with club. He
must have a very imperfect vision who
could not see the difference between the peo-
pie of Virginia that staid at home and did
not come to Kansas, and those that came to
Kansas and hurt his son.
will agree that he may be honest, but
think while he entertained profound hor-
Tor of slavery, and felt great indignation
toward the men who wanted to establish it
in Kansas, and who killed his son; while we
may think that, think there iras something
of the old Adam in it, and he tcent to revenge
himself upon the innocent, for the tcrongs
done by Others.
l am Judging of dead man, for he is as
good as dead, but cannot avoid speaking
Of this matter, because / think there is a
great mistake abroad in the country con-
corning it.
Brigham Young believes in this miserable
doctrine of polygamy-his disciples do,
whether he does or no; they believe that
God Almighty commanded that a man
should have many wives. Suppose they
were to come here to cut off this generation
because we don't believe that Brigham
comes with the word Of the Lord, what
would you do with him? He comes into
your houses and kills your children, and
dashes out their brains upon your own
hearth-stones. Mahomet went over the
world in that way, and he was, no doubt.
fixed and honest in his belief. What, then,
would it be our duty to do with Brigham
II hn1 Ii Io1 LoIA hah o.
taken your young daughter that has just
left your embraces, the very tear Of affect
ion that you shed upon her cheeks not vel
dry, and some man, under the command OF
GOD, as he asserts, cuts her throat in your
very presence. That tcas Brorn's trGy o.
doing the thing. That tvas ,rhat he uas after,
w hat mill you do nth him7 Is there an1
lao in hearen or on earth that piH grouse hinii
Is there any nation among men, that irolld
not send such man to the gdllo,rs, or to Thu
penitentiary? Is there any man so much o.
q saint, so free from the imperfections of htl.
nlanity, that tcould not STAY him if he could
Why is it, then, that John Brown, be.
cause he tells the truth and faces his coming
doom with composure, shall be canonized!
Many a highway robber is just as brare a,
John BroWn. Many a highway robber is jus
as free from lying as John Broicn. Romance
and history, too, is full of the accounts o.
men committing crime, who would not Ii,
nor finch at sight of the gallows. Wha
will you do with such men? You erect pen
itentiaries to put such men out of the world
because you cannot live in the world Will,
they are in it.
John Brown is hero! British jurispru
dence abounds in just such heroes as tha
man, who, distracted by injuries received il
social life, and reduced to want, go upon tn,
highway, with the pistol in their hand, ant
meet the passenger and say, "I have nj
country; all the laws and all the social in
situations Of civilized man are but contrivan
ces Of fraud. Iappeal to God, and lool
Heaven in the face What will you d.
with such man? Hundreds of such mel
have been killed and gone to the gallowl
because they had that view Of duty.
What is all your preaching, my reverend
| friend, but command to obey the law
What has reduced man to this condition il
which we find ourselves, but this disobedi
ence to law? Yours is the law Of God, Blu
these must be under that obedience to tn,
law of man. There must be order in tn,
world; and when law is made, especially
in country like this, hold that, upon TIL
conscience Of every Christian man, upol
| the conscience of every honest man VIII,