Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1859-11-30
2ailg Sireiuian.
Tom Corwin on John Brown.

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tan Citizen and his Duties" From the report Of
the speech which we find in the Cincinnati G,-
zctte. We make the subjoined extracts. shch will
be read with interest:
Now am brought (says Mr. Corwin) Ia tho
consideration Of n particular merit or two in our
history. in which think great mistakes peryade
tho county.
A poor mnn by the name Of John Brown hns
gone to llarper's Ferry, in Virginia. John Brown
said, or would have said to the lew negroes there.
| Il have some thousand or fifteen hundred. | be-
lievc, of pixies with iron steel at the end of them
about that long Ia foot). and these things win
kill mum. expcrtly. easily and quick; with these
| pixies wish you tn kill as many white lnen as
come in your way, and run with me" These
men were slaves by a law with which You 4 have
more to DO than with the laws VI the llindoos,
| or of France. That il our compact Virginia
must not come here with pixies, nor any Virgin
ian must not into the State Of Ohio with
pixies, to kill the teachers Of schoois because
| they don't like common schools. II ia our liking.
and that is all tie reason that We have to give to
them. We must tell them 60 home to your ne
groes. We will have women imported from Vcr-
mont tn teach our little children. anl it YOU
here with those pikes to kill tho>c women because
you dislike our system. wewill hang you" There
il the compact, and thence arises the moral ubli
! CATION not violate that compact.
Waker-GrnMal Wnlkcr--hlue-eycl Walker
| bright blue-e,ed Wnlker--the mam IF destiny,
gathers Together set Of vagab"nd-, call
them. men very 'mprrirc,ly clothed, aingulaily
| rubicund about the nose and blistered "brnt the
| lips, with strong taste of Bourbon whiskcy ard
an ardent love ar liberty, he gathers his people
together rcmndns ns OF David. who could only
get to follow him that were inliebt and eoul'l
not pay), but these ie!.tws nrc great friends "i
liberty. Blurcycd Walker says, Il will 90 to
Nicaragua and Jet in the sun light of liberty up
these poor people. black. brown, Spanish brown
! and deep blue, Of all complexion Of the rainbow
l'luc-cyed Walker is unhappy. These people
want liberty, nd he gathers these red nosrd mon
together and they 20 abroad to Nicaragua, and
blue eyed Walker says. "Lo, come, the millen
um is on the way, the Aurora ison tho sky The
Nicaraguan says, Il dunt see that aurora" and
blue eyed Walker says Il will shoot the brains
out Of you, il You can I sea it,
E,cr since the days of Hugo G"tius, it has
been the moral law If nations. that "ne nation
shall not interfere with another. Gio;iAs il II
writer that is neglected y our law students, now,
ndays; they prefer Wilcoxs Forms, and Swans
| Duty of Administrations, tu the reading Of II tnaa
who was not only nrisi, but n historian, II poet
and profound hl,snpher. and one who worked
out in his brain. thai it was the true moral oLii
CATION of nations one to another, to let alone the
family concerns Of his neighbor until they CON
| cerned him.
| Blue eyed Walker has not regarded uirotius -
He sends people to the grave instead i 10 school
| that being his way OF educating mcn-bnrins II
| hole through their brain to let in the Ii ,ht
| We have contracted with the people of every
| State to let them alone. We have promised them
| and hence arises my notion Of the moral obi .a-
| ton 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 allow he may be hot
e,t after fashion, or Hamlet has it in the play
| 'in1iferent honest" ! don't doubt BY what
| hear said that he suffered much in Kansas; TINT
he became little irritnted and henca IL little in
sane That may all be true but ho must have
| hecn q very strange moral philosopher, il he
W uld 60 to liarpcr's Ferry, in Virginia, and kill
| MS manv women and children as could he reached
| with those pixies. bccaase some vagol ond killed
| his sun in Kansas. But Brown went the idea
| that the whole system was wrong. Ii may have
reasoned in that wav, but think m ght us we'll
say I will kill Mr. Morris, or my friend Smith,
| simply because one of my ancestors had sou that
| killed his brother. 1t is perfectly certain that
| Adam had two sons and one knocked out the
| others brains, as we suppose with IL club. lie
| must have a very imperfect vision who could not
see the difference between the people ol Virginia
| that staid Mt home. and did not come t. Kansas,
| and those that came to kansa. and hurt bis
| will agree that he may he honest but | think
| while hs entertained profound horror of slavery
| and felt grcat Indignation Toward the men who
| wanted to establish it in Kansas aud that killed
| his son. while we may think that think there
| was something of The Old Adum in it, and he
went to revenge himself upon the innocent, for
! the wrongs done by others.
| am Judging Of dc td man, for he is as good
| a. dead, but cannot avoid speaking OF this mat
| ter, because think there is great mistake 4
| broad in the country concerning it.
| Brigham Young believe in thiss miserable doc
trine of polygamy his disciples do, whe'her he
| does or no they believe that Col Almighty
L. 4
| Suppose they were to come here t cut off this
| generation because we don't believe that Brigham
comes with the word Of the Lord. what would VIC
| do with him? He comes into y.ur houses and
kills your children. and dashes out their brains
upon your hearth-stones. Mahomet went over the
world in that way, and he was no doubt fixed and
h. ST in his belief. What then, would it he nnr
duty to do with Brigham Young? lie has killed
your b"bc he has taken your young daughters.
that have just left your warm embraces, the very
tear of affection which you shed uD,n her cheeks
not vet dry. and some man, under the command
of Gud rs ho asserts cuts her throat in your very
presence That was Browns way OF doing the
thing. That what he after. What will
YOU do with him? l. there any law. in Heaven
or IN enrth, that will excuse him? Is there any
nation among that would not send such man
to the gallows or To the rcnitentary? Is there
any man much saint So free from the ilnper-
fections Of humanity. that would not slay him if
he could?
Why is i, then. that john Brown. because he
tells the truth and faces bis coming doom with
com posure, shall be cnnonized2 Many highway
robber is just a. brave J..hn Brown. Many o
highway robber is just as free from lying as John
Brown. Romance and history. toe. is full of the
acc ,unts of men committing crimes who would
neither lie nor finch at the sight of the galows.
What will you DO with such men' You 81 ect
peniten ,res TO put such men out Of the world,
because you cannot live in the world while they
are in it.
Johu Brown is hero! British jurisprudence
L ahu,.nds In mat such haroes as TINT man WIN