Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1859-11-18

wronged men In Kansas. There was an
army there that unfurled the banner of the
Union. but it was on the side OF the wrong
doers, not on the side of the injured.
1t was in this field that Brown received
his impulse. A tender father, whose life
was in his soma life, he saw his frst-born
seized like felon, chained, driven across
the country, crazed by suffering and heat,
beaten by the officer in charge, like dog,
and long lying at deaths door, Another
noble boy, without warning, without offense,
unarmed, in open day. in the midst of the
city, was shot dead No justice sought out
the murderers. No United States Attor-
ney was dispatched in hot haste. No ma
iines or soldiers aided the wrongcd and
weak
The shot that struck the child's heart,
crazed the fathers brain. Revolving his
wrongs and nursing his hatred of that dead
ly system that breeds such contempt OF JUS
iice and humanity. at length his phantoms
assume slender form, and organic such
an enterprise as one might expect from a
man whom grief had bereft of good judg-
ment. He goes TO the heart of slave
| State. One man--and sixteen followers
he seizes two thousand brave Verginians
and holds them in duress.
When great State attacked handful
of weak colonists, the Government and ma
ton were torpid, but when seventeen men
attacked sovereign State, then Maryland
arms. and Virginia arms, and tho United
| States Government arms, and they three
rush against seventeen men
Travellers tell us that the Geysers of
Icelaud-those singular boiling springs Of
the North-may be transported with fury
by plucking up handful of grass or turf
and throwing them into the springs. The
hot springs of Virginia are of the same
kind A handful Of men was thrown into
them, and what boiling there has been
But, meanwhile. no one can fail to see
that this poor, child-bereft old man, is the
manifest of them all. Bold, unfinching,
honest, without deceit or doge, refusing to
take technical advantages Of any sort; but
openly avowing his principles and motives,
gloryiDg in them, in danger and death, as
much as when ia seeupity-that wound
ed old father Is the most remarkable
figure in this whole drama. The Govern
or, the officers of the State, and all the at
torneys are pigmies compared to him.
deplore his msRortunes. l sympa-
thize with his sorrows. mourn the hid
ing or observation of his reason. disap-
prove of his mad and feeble schemes. /
shrink froas the folly of the bloody foray,
and / shrink likewise, from all the aniicipa-
tions of that judicial bloodshed which doubt
| less, ere long, will follow--for when wa
eowardice ever magnanimous? They will
kill the man, not for treason, but for prov
ing them towards
: By-and-by, when men look back and sec
5 without prejudice that whole scene, they
: viii not be able to avoid saying. Wha
: must be the measure of manhood in a scene
where crazed old mao stood head and
) shoulders above those who had their whole
reason? What is average citizenship wheI
, lunatic is a hero!"
, One word more, and that is as to the in
5 security of those States that carry powdc'
as their chief cargo. Do you suppose thai
g IL tidings had come to New York that tn
United States Armory in Springfield hat
t been seized by seventeen men, New Haven
: and Hartford, and Stamford, and Worces
ter. and New York, and Boston. and AL
. bany, would have been thrown into feSe
e and panic in consequence of the event
5 We scarcely should have read the papers
t to see what became of it We shoul'
), have thought that it was matter whicl
n the Springfield people could manage. III
n thought of danger would no. have enteTe'
;. into our heads. There would not fav
d been any danger. But in a State wher
n there Is such inGamabie stuff as Slavery
n there Is danger, and the people OF th
e South know ii; and they cannot help i
e I do not blame them so much for bein
e afya:d-,here is cause for fear where the
+! have such population as they have dow
y at the bottom of society, Bot what mus
l. he the nature of State and domestic instiis
e lions which keep brave men at the point Q
IS fear all their life long
N do not propose, at this time to expire;
l. my opinion upon the general subject
d Slavery. I haya elsewhere, and often dt
5, iiberately uttered my testimony. Refie'
lie ton and experience only confirm my 5ude
.r ment of lis immeqsurable evils. 1t is
a doublc edged evil, that cuts both way
5. wounding master and slave: pest to goo
ID morals consumption of the indusiri
)! virtues burden upon society, in IFS cog
se mercial and whole economic arrangements
+, political anomaly, nuisance. and cau'
Y, of inevitable degradation in religious idea
OF feelings and institutions, All other caust
OF fiieticn, put together. derived from Il
$. weakness or the wickedness of men. a
e. not half so mischievous 10 our land as
r. this gigantic evil.
er But it exists in our land, with bro:
D. spread. and Iong-esDtinued hold. III
70 extent of our duties toward the slave al
in toward the master, is another and separa
w question. Cur views upon the nature
IL Slavery may be right. and our views
W our duty toward it may be wrong. AT I'll
he time II is peculiarly necessary that all ge'
Fe me. should be divinely ird to act with pr
ne dence and efficient wisdo4a.
Because it Is national curse, il does n
ir- follow fiat we have right is say anythli
a or do ANYTHING ihat we may happen
it. please. We certainly have no right TO q
n. tack it in any manner that will crafty m I
IS. fancies or passions. il is computed tl'
of there are four million colored slaves in o
,s. nation. These dwell in fifteen difiere
lis Southern States, with population of Z
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