Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-12-24

z4tn OF Aay, pr dleated on the afhdayits Of Mrs.
Doyle, Mrs. Wilkinson. and Mr. Harris The gentle
man eorrects me by reading from book that sup
pose has been got up and made 20 SELF which says
that Old man Browns son was arrerted on the last
day of May. exhibited the fact that the murder was
committed on the 24th Of Nay, and to contradict ny
statements ne attempts to show that his son received
this reament on the last day of Nav Does thai con-
Tradct what SAID Does that change the nature of
the fact IL the least2 Not at all. Old John Brown
and his comrades. midnight assass.ns. then imbrned
nelr hands IN blood With the weapons that had been
sent 70 them from the northern States or thar they
took with them The sight of this blood and the
exholtlon OF these weapons to his son. so maddened
him that it set him crazy without the mireatment
OF any prosiavery man. His heart had not become
adamant; he was not steeled to barbaritv as his
father was and when he saw the weapons and the
blood that was crying to Heaven for Justice, he be
came maniac. Does that disapprove anything thpt
said? The book says thus was on the last day of
May The aihdavits show that the murders we're
committed on the oath The Senator from Wiseon-
sin reads from the same book in reference to
Brown other SON. precisely what said that 1t was
the 3Oth Of August he killed, at the battle Of
OSSawatome. What, then, does the explanation
amount to Has the Senator corrected any fact
that statedr BE seems to think that misrepre-
scented him. The Senate will bear me witness, and
the report of wha. have said will show, that
stated expressly that in portion of his speech he
had disclamed any sympathy with the conduct of
old John Brown at Harper's Ferry. in the abstract
enee to John Brown. Is that misrerresenting the
Senator? stated all that he had said, and be has
furnished additional proof of the facts which pre-
scented. These facts stand uncontradicted.
John Brown stands before the country murder
er. The enormity, the extraordinary foreclosures
of the father set the mad The blood of these
murdered men, not unlike that of sacrificed Abel,
orIed even from the tongueess eaverns of the earth
to him for pity, and to Heaven for justice but his
iron heart, not SOUL refused to yield but Heaven,
IN the process Of time has melted out to him justice
ON the gallOws. Justice divine TO punish sin moves
slow the slower is its pace, the is its blow.
II will OYertake us if living it will overtnke if
dead Justice has overtaken its victim, and he has
gone to eternity with crimsoned hands with blood
upon his head
But tine Senator talks about the school in which
John Brown was taught. Why, sir so far as John
brown is concerned, according to his own confess
sion he had entertained these ideas for twenty years
John Brown did not go to Kansas to go 10 school.
lie went there as teacher; and on tine Gath Of May
Mt the mid hour of night from the wife and mother.
l'e dragged the husband and two sons and mbrued
his hands in their blood. These were the doctrines
that he went there to teach He did not go there to
be taught but he went there as O teacher. These
were his teachings Imagine the cries and lamenta-
tiyns ON the one hand and the Shrieks of the dying
and mufilated on the other. | think sometimes that
l hear shrieks so loud. wild, so clear. that even
listening angels stOOp ON heaven 10 hear. This is
the man for whom apology IS offered. did the
Senator the Justice to say-thQt he disclaimed all
sympathy with Brown. and yet | read what. in fact
was an apology. What furthermore did the Senator
say: We have shown, and the fact is not cOntro-
verted. that he murdered five human beings on the
24tli Of May. Thav have shown. in irving to answer
this, that his di receive this i'll treatment
from Captain PATE until the last day Of May. We
have shown that his other son was not killed until
the 30th of August. Let US remember these facts,
and come TO the old man as being thief and muir
derer. / want these modern fanatics. who have
adopted John Brown and his gallaws as their Christ
and their cross 20 see who their Christ is. The
Senator says again;
81 that gentlemen, speaking cf this Brown,
vAraond, in the ordinary o, the Sir it Of the
or steals should act from desire % Certainty no such
charge he made against this that he aSsued By
sought r. e liner 10 s snsavd AMI aid down bis lie for
Tint purposei freely and hrav " did be doit." -'-
That is you may steal and commit theft, if you
do it to aid the cause of the abolition of slavery
Have we any proof that this is so? What does Mrs.
Wilkinson say in her affidavit When John Brown
and his comrades were there on the night of the
24th. when they took Wilkinson ont and murdered
him. just before they left they took hs property and
his only horse. suppose they needed the horse to
aid in the emancipation of the slaves! Horse steal
ing is carried on TO great extent sometimes in a
frontier country. Mrs. Doyle states that they in
quired where their horse was and were told il was
out the prairie. What took place at Harper's
Ferryo They took Col WlshingtOns silver and his
watch. What does he admit in his own confession?
That he during the last winter had stolen, had kid
mapped aid run of eleven slaves from the State of
Missouri to Kansas. That is not stealing, though;
suppose that is not theft that not robbery and we
ought not TO talk about this Old as stealing in
the common acceptaton of the term, What is It. l
ask the country ask the Senate, if it is not steal
ing, robbery. highway robbery And yet these
things thrown out perhaps not intended. but
they do operate apology and excuse in the
minds of many for the infanly, the murders, the
thiaying, the treacherOus conduct Of this old man
Brown, who was nothing more than a murderer,
| rObber, . thief. and traitor.
| think. Mr. President that so far as John Brown
is concerned the facts which have presented stand
| uncontroverted. The Senator has failed TO touch
| them. He has not removed them. but has added
strength and additional proof 10 VIVA l SAID IN re-
| ference to them II was not my intention to con-
sumo this length of time and should not have said
single word on the subject if the resolutions could
have been adopted without the discussion, and es-
pecally so if reference had not been made TO John
/ Brown not being a murderer and thief, involving
the reputation and character of some of the citizens
| of my own State.
There does seem to be a providential interposi-
ton in this affair Brown murdered Doyle and his
two sous, Doyle left widow and four helpless
children Justice seemed to be little taPdy; but 1t
kept constantly in pursuit of its victim, and but
short time since the who murdered Doyle and
his two sons. fell victim with his two sons, at
| Harpers Ferry. do not say this was 6 stroke OF
| Providence, but II a singular coincidence. he
whose handS were RED crimson win tue DiOOu OF
father and two sons fell victim at Harpers Ferry
with his two sons. 1t seems that divine PrOVi
dence intended il Febgke an illustration that
justice will only Oyertake its VICTIM but will
mete ont Justice in similar manner.
| think Mr.. President that have shown the ten
denCy of the policy which have called attention.
Whether it has been designed at all times by those
who preached it not shall not undertake to say;
but will say that The effect of that kind of teach
ing has been the result which is evident; and
want TO say now. in no spirit of Boosting, TO my
friends East and West North and South, that the
time has arrived when these things ought to be
stopped; the time has arrived when encro chments
the institutions of the South should cease; the
time has arrived when the Southern States and their
institutions should BE- let alone; the time has ar
rived when you must either preserve the COnstitu
ton or you must dissolve this Union; the time has
arrived when have well nigh done making any
appeals you the subject; but all We ask Of you
IS. that, as brothers of the same COnfederacy,
ynU will understand and carry out the COnstitu-
tion it is am let US this pickering Let US
cease this agitation, and stand upon the COhstitu-
ton as the common altar. and maintain all its guar
antees. and swear by our fathers and the God who
made us that the Constitution and its guarantees
shall be preserved; and. in doing we sh II pre-
serve the Union. and in preserving the Union we
shall have peace and harmony, and the unexam-
pied prosperity whichihas visited our country will
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