Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-12-01
Cnrwin ON John Brown.

Corwin on John Brown.
Mr.. Corwiu inaugurated course OF lee.
lures at Lebanon Ohio, last week, upon the
American Christian Citizen and his dutes.-
Upon the great topic of the day he spoke "a
follows:
A gentleman rises up from prayer, and
saws that u law is very wrong--that 1t COM
ulauds wicked thing, he cannot obey It.
There are two alternatives Tor such ! man
exile and the grave. Either one OF them
is very unpleasant To weak mortality, but he
will have little time for probation. IT he
pleases, in this way Let him 80 to work
and show his fellow men that il is wrong, and
have the law repealed or the Constitution
amended. IL the law is contrary to his
knowledge Of the law Of God, OF belief IN 1t,
what is he to 90? Can he oyerturn the Gov
eminent? If he can, it isproper. lie should,
do it, But ~ there is no necessity Tor that,
and it is easier to convince men that 1t Is
wrong, that he may do for time, and II he
cannot do that, it is his duty to leave the
country where the law commands obedience,
and the law of God disobedience, or 1t Is his
duty to die martyr. but let him not COM
plaln oft: hence it is the necessary conse-
ouence of what he does with his eyes open.
Now am brought to the consideration Of
a particular merit or two in our history, IN
which / think great mistakes pervadc our
country.
A poor man by the name Of John Brown
has gone to Iiarpers Ferry, in Virginia. :
John Brown said or would have said to the
few negroes there. Il have some thousand or
fifteen hundred, believe, OF pixies, with iron
or steel at the end of them about that long
Ia fpnt), and these things will kill u man, ex-
pertly, easily and quick. With these pixies
wish you to kill rs many white men as
come in your way, and run with me. :
These men were slaves, tn whom these pixies
were rendered negro slaves by the law Of
Virginia. They were slaves by law with
which YOU aud have no more To do than with
the laws Of tie Hindoos. or OF France. That
is oar compact. Virginia must not come
into the State of Ohio with pixies to kill the
teachers OF our schools, because they don {
like common schools is our liking. and
that is all the reason We have TO give to them.
We must tell them "go home TO your negroes.
Wewill have women imported from ermont.
to teach out little children, and if you come
here with pixies 10 kill those women because
YOU dislike our system, we will hang you =
There IL the compact. and thence arises the
moral obligation to violate that compact.
AFTER Dinner SPEECHES QUESTIONABLE.
-Postprandial speeches have had their day III
some parts OF Europe, and we are glad OF t
When well done they are bores; when not
happily delivered. theyare nuisances. Aswe
~, 81. laft INIT IA
the Marquis La Grande, who ut the dinner
Of the Agricultural society of Blaye (Gir"n-
DIM said II will not propose toast
1oasts, with their accompanying addresses,
are importations from England; they are stiri
and starched, are indstinct like toggy Albion
herself are intoxicating like porter, heavy
like beer | prefer the good old fashioned
custom Of our foretathers, simply drinking
healths without remark. They did pot
speechiiy--they drank; they did not enter
into historical dispositions, often erroneous
did not pronounce eulogies, which are too
generally silly " false; they expressed their
sentiments by acclamation Down, then,
with English toasts and limitations Instead
Of changing this joyous table into Parla-
lnentary tribune, let us be faithful to the past
and the traditions of Franco
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