Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-12-10
rhe Day aud the Deed OF Blood

The Day aud the Deed Of Blood.
During our absence yesterday, from illness
our assistant indited an article relative to thu
probable execution of John Brown and hi
compatriots, by the scared and infuriatet
Slavefbreeders of Virginia.
That the carnival Of blood took place a
per programme there is too much reason tt
bAisve. In one of our recent exchanges, WI
End the following curt letter from Gov. Wise
| to the Rev. WIN. G. Whitcomb, of Lynch
tield Mass, in which the ''very sympathy Tex
pressed for Brown, and the appeals for naeres
in his behalf made to the Vlrginian executive
are offered as principal reasons why his blood
should be she'd! Read the letter: n" -....
o REv. SIR: The very sympathy with John
Brown, SO general, so fanaticai, 80 regardless
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.
.yr Truly yours,
''.. -.'' ." HENRY A. WISE.
Rev. WV. C. WHITCoAB. a., p 1r
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, 1859, 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 ofa Revolutionary ancestor who
probably fought on that field, under the eye
of tia. Washington, in defence of her soil, to
give her sons Liberty ir~ouuI,. ..
Good God and is it true ?-is it possible !?
That in the Nineteenth Century-in Repub-
lcan America-mens' blood flows on the scat
fold for an Msa the Idea, that man.
kind have the right to the ownership Of them
selves AMI their families dying for the Truth
enunciatei by Thomas Jefferson, that " All
Men are created Equal" ill.,. |..
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
Martyr,lomss for LIBERTY las Day second
only in American Annals, to the Day of the
Declaration of Independence itself, for its
grave and important consequences.
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
unSclfish, dsinterested Llea which animated
them-the Idea of giving Freedom to the En-
shaved and Oppressed, aoithout preft tn them
s:Lees-by thus embruing their hands in their
blood, the myrmidons of Slavery have pre- ip
itated n " Conflict which else would have pre-
sressed slowly, moderately, safely, to all COLI
rerned, until the Curse and Shame of our
Lind had been gradually removed from it!
But Slav ry-Vire i ,ia-has,by this bl"ody
deed, commenced the battle by the deliberate,
cool, cruel, unnecessary shedding of the life
blood of BRowN and his compatriots--ann
woe! woe! woe it will be, henceforward, to
t, Virginia and to Slavery.
! The red sSouthrrn sum-" that, with IL
warm rays, yesterday dried up from the seal
fld, tie blood of those who are now Martyrs
# LIBERTY! vii, we fear, grow redder still. in
reheciias on his lurid disc, fields CORY WITH
the victims OF Retrioution aud Vengeance!
1.-The voice of thy brothers blood, Virgin.
ia, crieh unto me from the ground
"And now art thou cursed from the earth.
which has opened her mouth to receive thy
b.otler's blood from thy hand.
"When thou tllest the groand, it shall not
henceforth yield thee her strength: A fugi
tive and vagabond shalt thou be in the
earth,
sand Cain Virginia. said unto the Lore,
my punishment is greater than | can bear. "