Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-11-19

Interview with the Wife of John brown.
Mr.. Theodore Tilton publishes in the Indie.
pendent an interesting narrative of an inter
view with Mrs Brown, after her visit to her
husband in prison, from which we make few
extracts -
"The conversation, of course, was of the
scenes at Harper's Ferry = both of those
which have already been enacted and those
which are shortly to follow. She alladed, with
subdued though evident emotion, to the
wounds of her husband, and to the loss of her
two sons, Watson and Oliver, who fell in the
struggle. But she made no such remark as
that recently attributed to her in a New Eng
land newspaper, that four of her sons had al
ready been slain, and she would be willing that
all the rest OF her family should be made a
sacrifice if necessary to the cause of freedom
These words, she said to me, could never pos
sibly have fallen from her lips, for she had al
ready felt too many griefs to court any fresh
sacrifices, and she could not think, without
pain, of any new death-stroke to her family.
She would not shrink from any necessary trial
or struggle when the hour came for it: but she
could not look forward with compOsure to any
further lessening of her family already too
sadly broken She regretted that such a re-
mark shoull have been put in her mouth
Tor, as she observed, they are unmotheTly
words She said that she had been so long
accustomed to sorrows that she had been train.
ed to bear them. While living i'll Ohio, tom of
her children died from dySentey wiin eiecen days,
three Of wiom lCe,e carried to the Craze together on
the same day! She mentioned in this connec-
ton, that her husband had always been
watchful nurse and the chief care taker of the
children and Of herself, during periods of sick
ness.
CAPT. BROWNS RELIGIOUS CHARACTER.
l adverted, in abiding to Capt. Browns re.
ligous opinions, to the common report that he
was an Old School Presbyterian. She replied
that he had been church member ever since
he was boy that he united, at sixteen years
of age with Congregational church in Hud-
son, OHIO; and that on removing to Pennsyl-
vanla, thirty years ago, he transferred his
membership to the Presbyterian church, with
which he had since remained connected She
said that the religious element of his character
had always been the ruling motive of his life.
He had always observed religious exercises in
his household with exemplary regularity. 1t
had been for many years the custom of the
family to read the Bible every morning, in re-
gular course of chapters, each member reading
in turn verse. She said that her husbands
familiarity with texts of Scripture was SO great
that he could detect almost the slightest mis-
quotation of any passage, and that if portion
of a verse in almost any part of the Bible were
read or repeated to him, he could Immediately
repeat the remainder. His conversation fire.
quently abounded with Scripture texts, and
his letters were always filled with them.
asked if she knew what were his favorte
passages, to which she replied:
"He had a great many; but one was, Re.
member them that are IN bonds as bound .ciM hem"
How nobly his life has proved his deep
hearted sVnfnathV for the slave
is HE INSANE?
l then put the question which l had been
chiefly sOlicitous to ask: at is the common
talk of the newspapers that Capt. Brown is
insane; what do you say to that opinion 2"
81 never knew" she replied, "of his insanity,
until read it in the newspapers. He is a
clear-headed man. He has always been, and
now is, entirely in his right mind. He is al
ways cool, deliberate, and never over hasty
but he has always considered that his first per-
ceptions of duty and his first impulses to ac-
ton, were the best, and the safest to be follow
ed lie has almost always acted upon his first
suggestions No, he is not insane. His reason
is clear. His last act was the result, as all his
other acts have been, of his truest and strong
est conscientious convictions"
MRS. SPRINGS VISIT TO THE PRISON.
Mrs. s. had carried with her into the Jail a
large bunch Of Autumn leaves, gathered in the
morning from the woods There was no nail
on the wall to hang them by, and she arranged
them between the grated bars of the window
She gave to the sufferer full blown rose,
which he laid beside his cheek on his pillow
The old man seemed TO be greatly touched
with these tokens of thoughtfiIlness. lie is
said to have always been great lover of ma
tnre-particularly of the grandeur of forest
scenes.
Mrs. s. drew chair near to his bed
side, and taking out her knitting, sat by him
for an hour She has preserved his complete
conversation, Of which can only gives small
portion. She says
81 never saw a person who seemed less
troubled or excited, or whose mind was less
! disturbed and more clear. His remarks are