New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-11-25

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sisyehoding ia mTious, Government grounded on ~
protecting 1t, making laws in it, behalf, u an eA
| @TerHtcn Of yllainy infinitely airocions, InAkns
| nCt only slaves out Of freeiDen, but villains our
| q is oitizens, by liz own laws There can
be 10 sanction, no justification, for such wieAeu-
YER, ara tie attempted Justification OF u %
laE is better than II adultery or nIiIrGer WeIe
juss.Ged by law. Tie whole world Is rightiuily al
war wb such niquty injustice and cruelty; no man
can pc-ebiy commit treason IN seeking % oyerihro"
it, and TO releaSe The victims of such tyranny man
Il bound to do everything in la power Tor Their re-
lease and for the abolition Of such system II slo
belitis of the Government were necessary for tne
overthrow Of tie sim if il were certain that the sih
could be oveithIown in no other way then The sooner
tie Government Il abolished, the better. II "ersS
infinitely better thai three hundred thousand
eaveholders were abolished struck out Of existence
dan that four million human being, with their pos
teriiy forever should be enslaved under them, con,
DEM ed 70 perpetual system which IL the perpetual
violation Of Gods law. The Slavery sweeps both the
victims Of IT, and the yrants 10 perdtl0n Ii u deah
10 the Shareholders; that what IL called treason II
in fact the highest mercy 10 them Their foIcioie re-
6emptiOn from the grasp Of this Sin, even by nrui-
rection, would lie blessing since their souls might
be fayed; but continuing in this guilt they must DC
shut out from heaven; 40 that John Brown u ia re-
ality their greatest kindest friend The angel thSs
knocked Peters chans from him in the prison wa mol
more truly his friend than John Brown, in endeayor-
inc TO knock the letters from The slave, is truly me
friend Of the STAKEHOLDER. Any striving TO aool-
ih Slavery Il the slaveholders greatest Irlenu nn
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petuate Slavery il the Shareholders greatest enemy
Any church sanetioning this crime IL Just sealing up
is members for Perdition, Just making Out oil tae
church great preserve Of fated game for Satan-the
rofe sion Of any religion that has sin for s element
icing a self-sealng can OF sweetmeats Tor Satans
profit and use.
N wonderful to behold the eyes Of the whole
ton Turned upon one old man, condemned to die upon
the gallOws for action, winch multitude5 OF men
stand in doubt whether to pronounce great crime or
one Of the most heroic, dnerested vituous and no
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recorded in the century. There he s in modern Egypt
a greater riddle, greater SphynA for mems Opinions,
than ancient Egypt saw There he Is, az OYer
Cromwell had rscn from the dead, shaking the CORY
head of tic tyran in the face OF nation OF oppressor
He il Gods bandw rtng on the all OF Slavery aud
the knees Of the whole South knock together at the
apI artion John Brown is Gods own protest against
this tyTanny against the unrghteous laws that sanction
IL against Tire men and States that support it. God
writes out his warning clear white paper takes the
heart and mind Of Christian man OF prayer, for IT'S
publication. John Brown Is one of those Instances
of men described by Milton who act out conviction
of duty from which from the contemplation Of which,
common men, the wOrshppers OF success, OF eXpedlen-
cy and Of niQuty enshrned in law, start back, as IN
horror Of great crime. Who that hears John Browns
words that reads his grand, solemn, thinking letters
from bis prison. that his simple, majestic, Christian
department in tie view Of death and notes his calm
trust in God can doubt that God is with him. and that
tie secret Of his confidence is biz abiding under the
shadow of Almighty and dwelling in the sacred place
of the Most High In the light OF these clear sun-ke
sacred DEVELOPMENTS of character and not in the uTd
malignant reacherous glare OF slave enactments and
slave-holdng cruelty, niquy and unjust Judgment,
will John Browns whole conduct be scrutinlzed II
il mighty and meaning providence OF God and when
His judgments in the land, the people will learn
righteousness.
John Brown il the capitalization into action Of max
inns which all would upon, if the ensaved and IN
ured in whose behalf he has yentured unto death,
1ktes, were population stolen from one OF your
own States embracing children of your own, wives,
brothers sons daughters, fathers mothers, Of your
own color and blood. You would not call John
Browns movement treason, you would not call It
murder, you would not call II wicked act If white
PERSONS your own relatives, had been chained and
claimed as property, tortured, tasked and condemned
as OF chsttels you would call i justice herosm,
piety And if the kidDappers Of such victims had pre-
tended an agreement your Constitution of ervice due,
distorne that into defence and Qualification OF such
robbery you would say that they were the traitors
worthy of death.
Nor would your Judgment or your sentence be
changed by set of Virginia Statutes, legszing this
wickedness, making your children the properly OF
their masters and making il treason or felony IN any
man TO attempt 10 deliver them run them or You
yould not only contribute money and arms to any
Marty who would undertake 10 do this but you would
Yourselves take arms, and II would be much more the
duty of your State TO sanction and protect you IN such
an effort than it when your ancestors took arms
1 AZ Lexington and Bunker Hill Thou shalt love thy
neiebbor as tbyself, and whatsoever ye would that
| men shoud do TO you, do We even so to them. How
grand and majestic the declaration Of John Brown
! the aged | am yet 500 young to be able to under
| stand that God il any respecteT OF persons.
II you or possessed the power, by tossing horn
of powder torch of Greek fire, percussion cap, an
exIiosve biscuit into the heart of the South to the
whole slave popnlatiou into sudden revolt for the
assertion of their freedom and the oblteraon Of
those horrible laws that make property OF man. concu-
bnes of wives, adulterers OF husbands oastards OF
children chattels aud bruee Of immortal beings into
q revolt that would break up and destroy this whole
/ huge system of complicated aud accommodating vlalny
and murder, would i not, beyond question, be
your duty, my duty minister OF christ Is
| all the slaves with prayer, he would not dare 10
offer H. Wonderful piety Amazing sanetlty OF soul :
| But some one will say, Your producing such move
ment would be attended with bloodshed, and you may
not do evil that good may This is very natu
raj and inevitable thought in every conscientious mind
But let as see ii den of pirates existed in your coun
try or of robbers and murderers, whose custom and
| law OF their own brotherhood was to convey away
! men women and children, and make slaves aud a
breeding factory for slaves Of them and their postery
aud if you or had the power by whatever Violence
break up that den, you would, IN the name OF TOD
and humanity demand me 20 do il. II could do by
| anrayer YOU would saw that was the most impi0us
ana abandoned Of all by pocrtes Il would not do IL
on the plea of fear Of consequences. And excused
myse on the plea that could not do II bnt 6y pro-
ducing violence and death you would say that by such
reflsal was myself guilty Of the continuance Of
systeu of infinite cruelty and robbery, which might
have brought TO an end lou would say thst my Kill
ing those robbers and nurderers would not have been
the doing Of evil that good might come, but JUST
righteous and necessary act and that my refusing TO
do il had made me accessory to all that wckedness
For he that knoweih 10 do good and doeth II not, 70
| him il il sin. This is Gods logic, not mine.
Now remember that II the color had been rhits ard
the victims Of oppression your relatives neghbors
neghbors descendants, you would have made ones
ton Of the virtue righteousness and nobleness Of John
Browns attempt You would not have sci the deter
minstion OF the quality Of bis act upon the probability
| Of sueeess. You would have said he much the
greater truer dsinerested hero, for going forth