Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-11-26
A BALLAD OF THE TIMES.

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Then Old Brown,
OsawatUmio Brown,
Shed not a tear, but shut his teeth, and frowned
terrible frown
Then they seized another brave boy-not amid
the heat of battle,
But in peace, behind bis pillow share-and they
loaded him with chains,
And with pixies, before their horses, even as they
goai their cattle,
Drove him, cruelty, for their sport, and at last
blew out his brains;
Then Old Brown,
Osawatomie Brown,
Raised his right hand up to Heaven, calling Hea-
VEINS vengeance down.
And he swore a fearful oath by the name of the
Almighty,
Ue would hunt this ravening evil that had
scathed and tore him So
He would seize it by the %vitals; he would crush
it day and night; he
Would so pursue its footsteps-so return it blow
for blow
That Old Brown,
Osawatomie Brown,
Should be a name to swear by, in backwoods or
in town.
Then his beard became more grizzled. and his
wild blue eyes grew wilder,
And more sharply curved his hawk's-nose, snuff
ing battle from afar;
And he and the two boys left, though the Kansas
strife waxed milder,
Grew more sullen, till was over the bloody Bor-
der War, .Ia
And Old Brown,
Osawatomie Brown,
Had gone crazy, as they reckoned, by his fearful
glare and frown.
So he left the plains Of Kansas and their bitter
woes behind him
are born
Hired a farm by Harper's Ferry, and no one
knew where TO find him,
Or whether he'd turned parson, or was jacketed
and shorn
For Old Brown,
Osawatomie Brown,
Mad as he was, knew texts enough to wear q
parsons gown.
He bought no plows and harrows, spades and
shovels, or such trifes;
But quietly to his rancho there came, by every
train,
Boxes full Of pixies and pistols, and his we'll
beloved Sharp's rifles;
And eighteen other madmen Joined their leade,
there again.
Says Old Brown.
Osawatomie Brown,
"Boys, we have got an army large enough to whiI
the town!
Whip the town. and seize the muskets, free th,
negroes and then arm them
Garry the County and the State; aye. and al
the potent South;
On their own heads be the slaughter, if their vic
Tins rise to harm them
These Virginians who believed not, nor woul'
heed the warning mouth"
Says Old Brown,
Osawatomie Brown,
"The world shall see a Republic, or my name i
not JOHN BRowN!"
n Twas the sixteenth of October, on the evenin
a OF a Sunday
"This good work." declared the captain, 'shal
a be on a holy night"
~ WIS U d Cuhuhy evening", anu, poioTo tue uOo
ri of Monday,
!, With two sons, and Captain Stephens, 6fteed
= pvivates-black and white
Captain Brown.
Osawatomie Brown,
Marched across the bridged Potomac, and knocke,
the sentinel down.;
Took the guarded armory building. and the mut
kets and the cannon;
Captured all the county majors and the colonel
oue by one;
Scared to death { b gallant scion of Virgini
7 they ran on,
And before the noon Of Monday. l say, the dee.
was done.
Mad Old Brown,
Osawatomie Brown,
With his eighteen other crazy men went 10 an,
. rr4 took the town.
8 Very little noise and buster, little smell of pow
der, made he;
0 . 1t was all d0ls in the midnight, like tn
s Emperor ~sup'd etat.
{ Cut the wires: stop the rail care /: hold tn
! streets aud bridges :" sa;a he
/ Then declared the new Repablic, with himsel
for guiding star