Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1859-11-11

sion-that cannot be got oyeri The
common sense of common people cannot
fail to see through all attempts 20 hide
natural shame by a bungling make-believe
that the danger was really greater than
it was The danger was nothing, and
the fear very great, and courage none at
all. And nothug can now change the
facts! All the newspapers on earth will
not make this case appear any better
Do what you please; mustersa crowd of
supposed confederates, call the roll of con-
spirators, and include the noblest men of
these States, and exhibit this imaginary
army before the people, and in the end it
will appear that seventeen white men
overawed town OF two THOUSAND brave
Virginians, and held them captNes until
the sun had gone, laughing twice around
the globe
And the attempt to hide the Year of
these surrounded men by awaking alarger
fear, will never do. 1t is too literala full
fillment, not exactly of prophesy but of
fabIe-not of Isaiah, but Ksop.
A fox having been caught in trap,
escaped with the loss of his tail. He i'm
mediately went to his brother foxes to
persuade them that they would all look
better if they, too, would cut off their eau
dal appendages. They declined. And
our two thousand friends, who lost their
courage in the presence of seventeen men,
are now making an appeal to this nation
to lose its courage, too, that the coward
ice of the few may be hidden in the
cowardice of the whole community! II
is impossible. We choose to wear our
courage for some time longer.
AS l shall not recur to this epic in Vir-
r ginia history again tonight, l must say g
. word in respect to the head and heart O
, it. For it all stood in the courage of one
E man.
D An old man, kind at heart, industrious
! peaceful, went forth, with a large family
of children, to seek a new home in Kan
sas. That infant colony held thousand
: of souls as noble as liberty ever inspired
). or religion enriched. A great scowlin;
e slave State, its nearest neighbor, sough
I to tread down this liberty-Ioving colony
! and to dragon slavery into it by force 0
# arms. The armed citizens of anothe
e State crossed the State lines, destroye'
e the freedom of the ballot box, preventet
a fair expression of public sentiment, cor
a ruptly usurped law-making power, an
# ordained by fraud, laws as infamous a
o the sun ever saw; assaulted its infan
3 settlements with armed hordes, ravage
O the fields, destroyed harvests and herd
r and carried death to multitude of cal
1t ins. The United States Government ha
+ no marines for this occasion No Fec
IN eral troops were posted by cars, night an
day, for the poor, the weak, the grossl
a wronged men in Kansas. There was a
ut army there that unfurled the banner {
IN the Union, but it was on the side of tn
ID wrong doers, not on the side of the ii
IN jured.
to 1t was in this field that Brown recei'
to ed his impulse. A tender father, who:
ev life was in his sons life, he saw his frs
n born seized like felon, chained, drive
tie across the country, crazed by sufferiT
Id and heat, beaten by the officer in charg
NJ like dog, and long lying at deaths doc
vo Another noble boy, without warnin
~, without offense, unarmed, in open day,
raj the midst of the city, was shot dead! \
,ly justice sought out the murderers.
at United States Attorney was dispatch
in hot haste. No marines or soldie
j a aided the wronged and weak
dy The shot that struck the child's hea
1t crazed the fathers brain. Revolving
aid wrongs, and nursing his hatred of Il
his deadly system that breeds such conteu
ak Of justice and humanity, at length
tly phantoms assume a slender form, and
the ganize such an enterprise as one mis
ais expect from man whom grief had Der
les. of good judgment. He goes to
'es. heart of a Slave State. One man-a
as sixteen followers ! he seizes two thousa
rec brave Virginians and holds them in
.wo ress.
heu When a great State attacked ha
vi full of weak coionists, the Governm
erh and nation were torpid, but when sev
tue teen men attacked sovereign State, Il
10 Maryland arms, and Virginia arms,
the United States Government arms,
On they three rush against seventeen men
lme Travellers tell us that the Geysers
r Is Iceland-those singular boiling spri
not of the North-may be transported '
Gus, fury by plucking Up a handful of eras