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

to embrace, in a government formed By them the
shaft that has been reared in this District in COM
meInoration Of the illustrious Washington. Will
thew want to come that far South, and lay their
hands upon all the pledges to the Union and the
Constitution which compose that shaft rearec in our
immediate vicinity? Certainly not Who VIII take
our pledge who win carry it away who will first
Law his impiOus hand for spoaton upon that tower?
| felt almost like exclaiming. in the language so
often used By the schoolboy, from Addisons old
play of Cato that teaches stern purity, unyeldlng
honesty, and high appreciation of right;
Is there not some chosen curse, IL,
Some hidden thund z in the stores OF heaven,
Red with uncommon wrath. TO blast the wresrh -
Who owes his greatness TO hi5 country ruin g u
feel in the sincerity of my heart, like invoking
the most whitening anathemas upon the man who
would Law his sacriligious hand upon this glorious
Ucion of these States Hho woald take our pledge
of faith: who would take the block Of marble de-
posted by Tennessee, which has inscribed upon hts
surface the sentiment of her iliustrious son who
now sleeps in his graVe"The Federal Union, it Must
be preserved.p Who will carry away that monument
built by the contributions Of the people, imaglae
that about the time when that takes place, that
old man TO whom have referred, that patriot sol
der who sleeps in his honored grave will rise. shake
of the habiliments of the tomb and forbid the at
But. Mr.. President, resume the line Of my ar
gument | commenced with the purpose of show
ing that the recent foray upon Harpers Ferry was
the legitimate result OF certain teachings to which
| have referred Look at the provisional gov
eminent which was framed by those who carried
On that expedition look at theif idea Of getting up
stampedes, and their expectation that when they
struck the first blow portion Of the white popu-
atog and the blacks would flock TO their standard,
and that they could maintain themselves for o GER
tain time and then tine Federal Government would
be an instrument for the overthrow OF slavery. L
think the act L. legitimate result Of the teachings
and those who have taught and still teach their fol-
lowers these doctrines though they may not have in
tended it, are In fact responsible for IT, 1t IS the
result OF their teachings 1t is their work. and now
is the time to commence reformation and put forth
different teachings on this subject.
But, Mr.. President, Senator's have undertaken to
rebuke those OF US VINO have spoken Of John
Browns acts as theft, murder, and treason. and
apologies are offered for the man who has commit
ted such outrageous offences picked Up news
paper not long since which, referring e the acts
of John Brown. said that, if he passed from the
prison to the scaold making no false step, his gal
lows would be more glorio1s than the cross; that
Christ. in the depth Of his agony, had asked that
his cup might pass from his lips, but that John
Brown has drank it to the dregs and therefore
John Brown and his gallows have become s1per-
ior to Christ and his cross. The idea was that the
coming and mission of Christ was failure, and
that John Brown and the galloWs on which he was
executed would be their modern cross, and their
Christ Such Is the Flasphemy of these teachings.
once heard it said that fanaticlsm always ends in
hell or in heaven l believe it is true. 1t is one of
those wild, maddening passions that take posses
sion of the human heart, and that always carries it
TO excess There is no medium, aud there Is no
cure for it but consumption of the passion ITSELF
have got another idea In ethca and that Il that
there never was and people the face of the earth
greater than the god they worship ed and II John
Brown becomes the Christ and his gaows thecrosS,
God deliver me from such people as they, whether
ttey fanatic, Democratic or Republican, or any
other description of persons care not by what
name they are called.
hoped, when this resolution was Introduced.
that it would be kept clear from party associations
and that 1t would pass with unanimity. without any
apologies or excuses being logged in for the acts
complained or We find however, that Senators
disclaim the acts of John Brown in one breath and
in another they hold out apologies and excuses for
the man. saving that he showed himself q man Of
endurance, man Of philosophy. man of tact, a
man of sense; and when We speak of him as thief
and robber, and murderer and traitor, they de
clare that should not say such things about John
Brown. Those may make him god who will. and
worship him who can; he Is not my god, and shall
not worship AT his shrine.
The honorable Senator from Wisconsin, Mr.
DoOIrTTLRl--and / confess that / am surprised
at him-after cOndemning the abstract offences
of murder and treason old John Brown, went on
| TO state:
Under what circumstance do yop hear @ HIN our 8
horses water until from fan
shng he becomes maniac and he has fro
BIZ to this day In pree9 OF the hous' of old IOhr
Rr1wu, another OF his Gtut ha fwled boy shot down
Then begin to hear Of old John Brown leader Of
band Of free State in KsnssI Then it that the irnr
entered INTO the old Hns and from that hour toh
ment Of hsd be eternal hostility, AMI from thai
hour ready not only to give his life hut TO take the
lives Of other in order to give liberty to those who
e shaved"
| Now. what is this calculated to do? | will not
assume what it was intended TO do. ! presume
that the Senator's motive entirely correct but
what effect is such language calculated to have!
1t is to heghten the idea of this old elon TO every
fanatic who may read it Then it was, after these
atrocities il his presence that the iron entered the
| old mans soul! This is rendered as excuse
| for John Brown having committed murder, trea-
son. and robbery. The iron entered his soul!
| Then he became q stole; then he became philo
| sophie then he became patriot. then he became
| careless Of consequences Well. now SupPOse
| that these things had taken place in the manner
the Senator seems to infer that they did occur
| We assume this TO be a Christian community
| and if it was true that his sons were badly NAL
treated, was that any excuse for his violating all
| the laws Of humanity and OF God? He WAS in a
Christian country he had his remedy without re-
sorting TO the means TO which he hid recourse
We have all read that Whose sheddeth mans
| blood by man shall his blood be shed.' And
also. Thou shalt not kill" Ii seems We have
some new born Christians who are making John
Brown their leader, who are trying to canOnize
him and make him a great apostle and martyr.
| We're these the elements of q Christian and a
Christian martyr? How DO the facts stand In this
case? When was old man Browns son killed. and
hitting the truth Of the statement of the Senator
from Wisconsin they not justlfiable; but when
we show that the facts different they are less
so. The Circumstances stated in the evidence of
Mr.. Harris, which will be found In report made
by committee of Congress, and republished in the
Herald Of Freedom Of Kansas paper that has at
its head for President the name of q Republican.
Mr.. Chase. Of Ohio, and Mr. Banks, of Massachu-
sets fer Vice President
hs rcumstancas attending William shermsns assssina
-
Kansas Mr. Sherman staying night the houss
If Harris, when he 9th OF May, About O'Clock,
ing property and questioning Harris and Others, sher
man vas asked to wat out Mr. Harris in his affidavit
odd Brown asked Mr.. Sherman to with him.
and shcrm,n went out With Brown heard nothing more
they styled themselves stsvei with Us until thew heard cap
burst and then those two left Next morning, about ten
O'Clock, found William Sherman dead, In the my
hous- was looking for him he had not hack, I
thought he had been murdered. Mr.. william
Cbody) examined IT, Mrs. whitsman vas
with shermans split pen In two places and
some Of bis Nns were washed out by the water large hole
cut in his breast and ibis eft hand o9, except
little pieoe of skin side"
This was the oath of May. / will read from the
saIGe paper another extract
When the Of the siege Lawrence reached
John rowu r member Of the Topeka TegisIstur
he company sixty marched towards
Lawrence Arriving Palmyra, he learned sackng
t and the On of the people He
in the vicinity anay towards Ossawat
Onie The nigh before reaching that pa when only few
miles they camDe for the night Old John Brown.
believe with the party Gngsi With hirsef
These he marched eight miles moath
Of Pota atomic creek and e from their beds their
resences at the hour OF midnight the 25th OF May, Allen
Wilkinson William Sherman. William p Doyle William Doyle
and Drury Doyle All und the next morning by the rna1
side, in the highway with cash in their heads
and their others with their split open in two
places, with holes in their breasts, and hands cut or
He seems to have had great passion for cutting
off hands:
No Kansas has pretended deny that
led that murder foray which Up
period not hair of Old John Browns head that Of sons
lad been injdred BY the pro slavery party.
" Il until the 31th Of august months after the
PotaWatome that the attack
mic by the proyey forces, and Frederick Brown old
John killed
To show all the facts in regard to the massacre of
the oath of May. will read to the Senate the ada-
Wits of some of the eyewitness of the transactions
Allen Wilkinson was member of the Kansas Le
gislatqre-a quiet. inotfensiTe man. His widow.
Louisa Jane Wilkinson testified that the night of
the 24th Of May 1856 between the hours of midnight
and daybleak, she thinks. party of men came to
the house where they residing and fOrcibly
carried her husband away that they took him in
the name of the northern army and that next
morning he was found about one hundred and fifty
yards from the house. dead. Mrs. Wilkinson was
very I'll at the time of measles. She says further
"IbegEed them let Mr. Wilkinson stay with saying that
helpless, could not stay by myself My hus
him stay with until he 'uf get
to on ted them that he would not of hut
day whenever called for the old
command looked at and then around
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