Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-12-10
NO 294.

Jesuit Who Efnaqfnes thisl Yet hsd they
not the same occasion 20 disoounteuanee the
disastrous measure Of their Prophet, shat good
men nov hase 10 expose 20 pefsistently the
I folly and ra.huoss and madness Of John Browns
iFeasica Of FHfiSodl We repeat, that in our
view what they censure IL far more prnisew or
thy than what they command We Affirm that
Z John Brown played 'Ae fool at HaTPsTs
Ferry, be met the fate Of a fool OF ChaIlestoVn.
10 speak grand words in priSon, TO wrte con-
solatory letters 70 sorrowful friendf 10 main
tain a cheerful courage to the last, and 20
calmly 10 the scaliold, these are tke more Sc.
qneni Of THg REEoIe DARNo AND THE NleHTT
BLOW. 10 the blow--the blOu--ths God-like
lies. Hi gtHic
Imagine John Brown at Ossawstomie. with
the iaasels Of the Freedom OF Kansas enciF.
aling his brow, sayinRto himself--"Go 70 now,
I will carry the war into Africa, will invade
the Old Dominion, the Africa Of America. /
will 20 alone If unattended, or will lead a
ban Of twenty oil Of ten. l will lie 10 walt
until can make up a siave c00ls for the North.
! II succeed, / wi publish TO the North and to
the South what can b. done by the help Of the
Lord in conducting an Exodus from the modern
1 Egypt; that will be = great ginmpb, blooiless
I onel N attacked at the tutset, If pursued
scross the borders and overtaks u, we shall have
the weapons Of defense, and via fight, and die
/ ii worst comes TO worse. And tlIat will be a
! glorious failure, which will demolish the Fugi-
tive Slave Law, and sbslter the Slave Power.
MorsO' sT, should the plan by any means be
truetrs led, oLe thing we will DO, we viii strike
a b'Op, Ws will take a town. we wilt urn a u.
! =. Ar ienal into an Anti Slavery Citadel, We win
alarT the South, we will reveal the cowanics
Vt the Virginia chivslry, We will show the
weakness OF the Slavoeraoy, we will Initiate a
scene OF terror and confusion, in the midst OF
which we shall die, but which shall be the be-
giaoing Of the end Of slavery. Ia any eronf,
then, we shall aRsuredly do oREAT woRK,
just the sort of work that the cause throughout
the whole country demands should be done,
both iu its moral and its political conditions.
We shall do a work. which shall arouse the na.
ton, awake the Church, multiply Anti-Slavery
heroes aud beFOines, and stamp the rising
generation with worthy impress"
IL John Brown had oomprehended 10 his
scheme these aims, these contingencies, and
theee issues, h0 would have grasped beforehsRd
the results which have actually accrued, results
which have dsmoasfTatsd the DisdJn Of iks
,novsmsRt, whether John Brown foresaw them
or not But il wsawsrd 60 him even ordinary
fopeeigLt this Is all that Is needed to vindirate
him from the iuipetuations of folly to relieve
his fnemory from the odium of mental haIluci-
nAtien
But whether John Brown was sane or In
sane, of this one thing there Gao be no doubt,
that he was thO chosen instrument in Gods
hand to snlle, aud vex, and higbten, aud hum
bic the naughty Slave Power. In this we DO
rtioieei yea, aud will rejoice! He has chosen the
weak things Of the world 10 eonfouud the
things which mighty Tue foolish things
TO cOnfound the wise! While the mighty at
the South have been eonfounded, tie wise Ht
the North have beeH equally eonfounded
. oan.lnla - ~ T.
and that John Brown was the Lords Prophet
TO the South, TO the nation; and that his exe>
cution is in Gods sight a veritable martyr
dom.
We enrol John Brown then among the John
Baptists, the Stephens, and the host Of early
confessors who sealed their testimony with
their blood. We write down Governor Wise
among tho Herods, and the Pilates, and the
Heros, and the black liat OF Prosecutors, for
whom while they lived it was the duty of the
sniisFing elaFisiiana 10 pray. bat GoF whom an
death there has been no hope. This Execu-
toner may live to hear Of the fame of other
Prophets OF Emancipation--greste than the
martyr, and from his tcrmsnted breast may
escape the xpression--"Surely this Is Jchr
, Brown over again" -
And now, mourning friends, what remains
for us, but TO 60 TO Jesus, and tell him of these
thingsi tell him of Slavery, the persecutor ol
HE saints, the slaugh;eTer OF his pTophea; tel
him of our grieis for the worthy dead and Of ouI
) grievances against the guilty Herod and Her
odias Of our timea-Hepry A. Wise and hiI
mistress, Slavery, and tell him of cur purpose
in dependence on Him, whom Brown dspended
on 10 the last, 10 oppose America Slavery ~
. every way which he may indicate, whether th'
, means consist with our own safety OF jeopafdiE'
our liVesi whether they commend themselves
TO mems judgment, or arc called rash. @