Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-12-17

s melted down into good American eagles. l would
d cause as much golG to cross the Rio del Norte al
y the mules of Mexico could carry; aye, and | would
make better use OF it, too, than any lasy, bigotet
priesthood under heaven"
d Representative Wise, is now acting Governor
0 Wise Of Virginia. The sams who declared in I'D
vance OF any judicial investigation, that Johr
Brown ought to be hung. Bell could turn traitoi
If he felt his neck CALLED by a usurped govern
9 ment Wise was ready to turn traitor if the Ma
tional government stood in the way of slavery,
outpouring without restraint, limited only by thu
) Southern ocean. John Browns treason consisted
5 in an effort TO remove the yoke from necks already
8 sorely CALLED, and let Liberty pour itself witbo !,
restraint, and without limit.
e Wise will occupy q prominent position before Q
J democratic convention about to assemble, to nom
mate a candidate for the Presidency. He may
receive the nomination and be elected. John Brown
Q has by this time perhaps, suffered a felons death
! The difference! Wise knows no freedom for the
0 black man Brown knew no slavery. Posterity
will judge them.
The fact that the necessity could occur for the
capital punishment of such a man as Captain
Brown, furnishes the strongest evidence that could
be given of our besotted and debauched condition.
Orthodox as ruritanism itself; his life a prayer;
asking only to know the right. and strength to do
it; p%rivotion and suffering accounted as nothing;
is it strange that his fate has awakened u sympa.
thy deeper and more universal than this country
has known before? Hundreds and thousands n,
, the North, have thought of, could think Of little
else, since the disclosures at Harper's Ferry
i rb,v ,roll tnavr tbo tl;r.t fnr lJ,od sc AL -.ast.
among whom he had fallen. Before sentence oi
death had been passed upon the venerable old
man, his form could be seen in imagination, sus.
pended from the hateful gAllows. Northern hearts
have Shuddered at the thought of what ras to be
hearts in the South have yet to shuddcr, at the
recollection Of what has been.
The work of to-day will be visited with q ter
rible retributiOn. 1t may be parted off for q
while, but it is coming. The religious sentiment
of The country has al length been reached. The
: first successful appeal to it has been made. Il
will not speak out to-day it would be startled al
its own voice, like o man born deaf and suddenly
cured of his ~malady. Its whisperings may now
be heard by those who have ears to hear.
= Bleeding Kansas can never forget his lone
night watch on the bleak prairie, the border ruff
ian army baying on his track, when they though
they were twenty to one against him and flee
ing before him when they found they were buI
ten to one. The fortitude with which he bore the
death of sons murdered, fortunate if not first driv
en- to insanity, by the cruelty Of their captors
his insufficient dress, scanty fare, and homo plum.
dered; ali, all borne without complaint for sue
cessive years that Kansas might be free.
There is something in the history of this brave
unselfsh man that meets with a response, where.
ever a spark Of bravery, or a sentiment of unset
fshness is found.
Thousands who from education, and position
condemn his deeds, cannot withhold their admi
ration of the man. But he is gono. Earth knows
him no more.
There remains a work for us, in making provis.
ion for those left destitute by this sad bereave
ment. Afectionate as n husband, tender as a par
ent, his last thought was for them. Hear hi,
touching appeal to Mrs. Child q benevolent lady
of Boston who craved the privilege of nursing
him while in prison in Charlestown.
Mrs. l.. MARIA CuILD.-M dear Friend (suct
you prove to be, though q strangely: Your mos
kind letter has reached me, with the kind offer tC
S come here and take care of me. Allow me TO ex
y press my gratitude for your great sympathy, and
at the same time to propose to you o ditferen
course, together with my reasons for wishing it
n should certainly be greatly pleased to becom'
d personally acquainted with one SO gifted and 81
kind; but | cannot avoid seeing some objections t
it, under present circumstances. First, | am il
0 charge of a most humane gentleman, who, with
his family, have rendered me every possible at
n tention / have desired or that could be Of the leas
advantages; and | am go far recovered from m,
wounds as no longer to require nursing. Then
!" again, it would subject you to great personal in
convenience and heavy expense, without doing IN
any good. Allow mo to name to you anothe
channel, through which you may reach me will
your sympathies much more etfectually. | hav,
e at home a wife, and three young daughters, tn
youngest but little over five years old. the oldes
i, nearly sixteen, / have also two daughters-in-la "
. whose husbands have both fallen near me here
Il There is also another widow, Mrs. Thompson
whose husband fell here. Whether she is a moth
Q err or not, | cannot say. All these, my wife inclu
O ded, live at North Elba, Essex County, New York
e | have a middle-aged son, who has beon, in som
degree, a cripple from his CHILDHOOD, who woul
have as much as he could well do to earn a living
He was q most dreadful sufferer in Kansas, an,
lost all he had laid up: lie has not enough t
clothe himself for the winter comfortably. / hav
no living son, or son-inlaw, who did not suffe
terribly in Kansas.
Now, dear friend, would you not as coon con
n tribute fifty cents now, and a like sum yearly, 70
Q the relief of those very poor and deeply Athlete,
persons 10 enable them to supply them selve
and their children with bread and very plail
" clothing, and to enable the children to receive
IT common English education? Will you also devot
IF your ewn energies to induce others to join you il
II giving q like amount. to constitute q little funt
for the purpose named2
cannot zee how your coming here can do m
the least good; and | am quite certain you cal
&c do immense good where you are. l am am quit
g cheerful under all my affecting circumstances anl
prnannlta having "a | humhlv truat tlfha naoo
of God, which passeth all understanding" to rul
in my heart. You may make such use of this a
n you see fit. God Almighty bless and reward 20,
n q thousand fold Yours in sincerity and truth,
d JOHN BROWN.
The man who had given everything he posses.
ed to the wives and children of others, request
k this lady, to procure for his oWn very poor, an
d deeply afflicted family, bread, very plain clothing
and a common English education for his children
p Who that has a heart can forget this appeal, o
e II