New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-11-12
John BROWNS INVASION.
NOW OLD BROWN TOOK HARPER's FERRY
RuI,p or TIE TINES.

now OLD BROWN TOOK HARPERs FERRY
A BALLAD or TIE TINES.
,,,,.,rius ye True History Of ys Great Virginia Fhsh'l
La. pso,ys in Kansas settled, ike steadias: Yam
kee farmer,
brave and cody, with four sons-all staiwar' men
Of might
Their, he spoke aloud for Freedom, and the Boroe'
strife grew warmer,
Til the Rangers fred his dwelling, in be aoeen''-
in the night
And Old Brown,
81 Osawatomie Brown,
oAr.. honsvvard in the morniDg-to end his honSe
burned down.
Then he sraped bis trusy rife and boldly fought JOY
Freedom; H.
sroote from border unto border 'he ner0e n'Sdi''s
band;
And he and his brave boys vo"eo-SO nDsn' he"''"
help and speed EN-
Th.v would save those grand old praries IRON the
eurse that bBgbis the land;
And Old Brown,
Osawatomie Brown,
Raid "Boys, the Lord win aid u.s." and be showed
his ramrod down.
a,a,hs Lord did aid these men, and they abored DAY
and even,
saving Kansas from its peril-and their very hVes
seemed charmed;
Tyn The Rufans killed one son, IN the blessed hgnt 4"
Heaven
Ia cold blood ,he fellows slew him, as he jouneyed
all unarmed;
Then Old Brown,
Osawatomie Brown,
Shed not tear, but shut his teeth, and frOwned ter
rible frown.
rs.n thew seized another brave boy-Dot amid the
heat Of battle
But in peace, behind his plow-share--and they
loaded him with chains,
And with pixies before their horses as they goad
their cattle,
Drove him. cruelty for their sport, and at last blew
out his brains;
l1 Then Old Brown,
~ Osawatomie Brown,
Raised bis right hand up to Heaven, calling Heavens
vengeance down.
And he swore fearful oath, by the name Of the Al
.es mighty,
He would hunt this ravenng evil that had scaihed
and torn him
He would seize it by the vtals be would crush il day
and night; he
Would no pursue It's footsteps-so return it blow for
blow
That Old Brown,
Osawatome Brown,
Should be a name to swear by, in backwoods or IN
town!
Then bis beard became more grzzled, and his wild
blue eye grew wilder,
And more sharply curved his hawk's-Dose, muing
battle from afar;
And be and the two boys left, though the Kansas
strife waxed milder,
Grew more sullen, TIL over the bloody Border
And Old Brown,
Osawatomie Brown,
Had gone crazy as they reckoned by his fearful glare
and frOwn.
80 be left the plains OF Kansas and their bitter woes
behind him
Sipt off into Virginia, where the statesmen all are
born
U;,ed a farm by Harper's Ferry, and no one knew
where TO find him,
n, whether he d turned parson, or was jackeed and
shorn;
i - For Old Brown,
....l.. tt.e Osawatomie Brown,
Mad as he was, knew texts enough to wear parsons
gown
He bought no plows and harrows spades and shovels,
OF such trihes;
Boxes full of pixies and pistols and his wellbeloved
Shsrp's rifles;
And eighteen other madmen joined their leader there
again.
Says Old Brown,
Osawatomie Brown,
"Boys, we have got an army large enough to whip
the town.
"whip the town. and seize the muskes, free the ne
groes and then arm them
Garry the County and the State; aye and all the
potent South;
On their own heads be the slaughter if their victims
rise TO harm them
These virgnians who believed not, nor would
heed the warning mouth"
Says Old Brown,
Osawatomie Brown,
1.-THE world shall Republic, or my name is not
JOIN BROWN
IT was the sixteenth of October on the evening of