Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-12-03
THE ANTI-SLAVERY BUGL1

lie mourns tie dead, and commiserates the living
With him are associated some seventeen o
eighteen mens and with these the old man expect
to "let the oppressed go Free" Noble purpose
but o how rashly, how madly pursued. MAD
BY common consent ho is SO regarded. Lawyer
SO term him-the psblic press SO term him. 1t !
even said that Mr.. Wise SO regards him. And
am here reminded of an illustration somewhat il
point. Mr.. Wise is not tho first ruler who ha
bad to do with madmeu. King Achish was troub
led with one on a certain occasion
"Then said Achish unto his servants, Lo, "
see the man is mad; wherefore, then, have "
brought him to met Have l need of madmon,
that ye have brought this fenop to play the mao.
man in my presence1 Shall this .(euow come into
my house ?"
Yes this fellow" did 60 into the house-the
Armo ry-and occupied 1t some 48 hoursl AT
length, however, "ihe house" is assaulted by armed
men representing two sovereign States and the
Federal Government. The ~assailing party are
victorious-the blood Of tho invaders two of them
sons of the old man)is freely spilled, and the old
man himself is captured and thrust into prison.
Court Immediately convenes; and he, ~lacerated
and bleeding from sabre stabs and bullet wounds,
is brought before the august tribunal, and placed
on trial. Too weak to stand or sit, he is Obliged
to lie upon a pallet, and listen to the solemn
m%ockcry. lie is found guilty. and sentenced to
be hanged on the second day Of December next
only twenty-three days removed from that day
which we observe as the most important in the
history of Christianity.
To-day, therefore, in a voice loud enough to be
heard Wherever foot of man has trod, are the omi.
nous words pngiug in the ears of Henry A. Wise,
Governor OF the Commonwealth Of Virginia
THOU SHALT NOT KILL john Brown OF OsAwAro.
MIE!' But will the voice be needed ? Far from it
The Slave Power demands the sacrifice, and il
will not be withheld, in his case, nor of those
who are convicted with him. But, let it be remem-
bered, the same cord that e~ncirclcs the neck Of John
Broom ~encircles the neck of Slavery.
l am not here to defend, much less to applaud.
the contemplated instruction, revolution, or
whatever you may choose to call it, of John Brown
at Harper's Ferry. What were his full intentions
l am not informed. But, whatever they may have
been, we can, in this instance, quite readily dis
tingulsh between the man andsthe deed. John
Brown was no longer John Brown, but, in OF
least one respect, he was Transformed Brown
given over to the single idea of striking the
snackies from the bondman, in his own way, and
com paratively oblivious to all things else.
Nelther am l here to condemn John Brown.
That work, in the language of DR.. Cheever, NAV
properly be left in the hands of those dumb DOGS
that dare not even yelp against slavery. Neither
have any words of rebuke for John Brown. hut
an abundance of those of sympathy and commiser
alton. And there are words of his that I shall not
soon forget, uttered by him just previous to the
passing OF the sentence Of death upon him. And
these are the words:
"This Court acknowledge, too, as 1 suppose, the
validity of the law of God. 1 see q book kissed
which suppose to be the Bible, or at leas. the
New Testament, which teaches me THAT all
things Whatsoever 1 wo old that men should do to
me, should do even 80 to them.s Il teaches me
further to remember them tHay are Id bonds as
bound with them. endeavored to act up to that
instsuction. say I am yet too young to under
Stand that God is any respecter of persons. l be-
heve that to have interfered, as l have done, as l
have always freely admitted l have done, in be-
haif OF Ills despised poor, is no wrong, but right.
But it it is deemed necessary that l should forfeit
my life for the furtherance of the ends of Justice
and mingle my blood further With the blood of nv
children and with the blood Of millions, in this
slave country, whose rights are disregarded by
wicked, cruel and unjust e~nactments, let it be
DONE"
Noble, manly words, these and they deserve
to be emblazoned, in letters of burning light, all
along the pathway of life. Condemn this man
Nay and the future historian, as, with impartial
hand, he shall approach the pleasant task Of
awarding the highest need If praise to the braves,
man OF the nineteenth century, his fingers will
eagerly seize the pen that shall instinctively and
indellibly trace the name of JOHN BROWN, OF OsA.
wAToAIE.