Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1859-12-08
John Browns EnligAtcEed Judgment.

John Browns EnlisAsesed judgment.
The Special Dispatch Of the Cincin.
matt Gazette, and rs.published in the
Chicago Press and Tribune Of Monday,
gives the following among the particu-
lars Of the prison and gallows scene, in
which old Brown was the actor:
Just previous TO the starting tor the
execution, Brown wrote the following
and handed 1t to Mr.. Hiram O'Bannon
IL am now convinced that the great
iniquity which hangs over this country
cannot be purged without immense
bloodshed. When l first came to this
State ! thought differently, but l am
now convinced that l was mistaken"
Here We have the dying testimony of
"the hero" "the martyr" "the saint"
fully establishing the correctness Of the
views held and proclaimed by the Dem
ocratic press in every section OF the
Union. The Republican followers Of
John Brown look upon the system Of
Slavery in the Southern States las the
great iniquity which hangs over this
country" The Democracy view it a.
an institution cntailed upon them, for
which the present generation is not re-
sponsible. Time has 80 blended the
system with the material prosperity Of
the Southern States, tina. to obIiteratc it
would be to destroy the very existence
Of the members Of the Confcderacy in
which it 10 established. But in no event
and under no circumstances have the
people Of the Free States the moral OF
legal right to interfere with Slavery in
tho Slave States. This is the Democrat.
ic doctrine, and the Democratic press
has been unceasing In the efforts to d.
rect the attention of the American PEG.
pie to the fact admitted by old Brown
that the attempt of the Republican party
to eradicate the institution from the
States in which it is legally established
Mill be attended with "imnsense blood
she'd" Old Brown, it appears, was al
ignorant Of the consequences Of the in
reference with Slavery in the States a,
has been and As is the editor of the Ga
zettc, until the scales were removed from
his eyes by sight Of the gallows upor
which he was about to expiate his crimes
lie tells his followers and the sympathi'
zers with him in his punishment, that, i
they desire to complete the work COM
menced by him, they must do so through
the fundamentally Of ''immcnse blood
she'd" The question presents itself, "i'
any considerable number of the people
of the North prepared for this fulfill
ment Of the mission of the anti-Slavery
party"' We opine they are not, and
just in proportion as they become en-
lightened, as was old Brown, and see
the end and means necessary to accom-
plish that end, they will flee from treason
and the utilization with traitors.
Our Republican contemporaries have
cndeavored to stigmatize the Democratic
press as "terror engeuderers," for the
reason that it has argued that ''immonse
bloodshed" would most certainly be a
consequence Of the measures adopted by
the Republican organization for the sup.
preston Of Slavery, yet here We have
the great martyr" himself promulgatine
his dying declaration to the very same
effect, and endorsing the Democratic
view of the subject. Old Brown in thus
giving publicity to his convictions, told
the truth, and if his disciples gainsay
his words, they either ignorantly OF
knowingly disseminate falsehood and er
rOr.
But the Republican organs taunt the
friends Of the Union by telling them
that though they have murdered old
Brown. his spirit still lives to cheer OF
his followers to the finishing Of his mis-
sion-that as the blood of the marty,
has been the seed of the church, so viii
the blood of Brown be the seed from
which will spring ten-fod multiplicA-
ton of anttypes. Such are the fiendisl
ebulit'ons Of those who wish to see til,
prediction fulfilled of that "immens,
shedding of blood" alluded to by tn,
canonizcd Brown. However, the publ
cation Of the intent works its own de-
feat. If the time should come for action
the Union loving people of the Nortl
will, of themselves, be found to be abun
dainty able to punish the treason mcdi-
tated against the sister States of tn
South. There will be union of all th
enemies Of treason, by whatever nam
they may ,sow be known, under one FLAG
The advent Of that day has arrived.
We need not your Counsel.
We gently insinuate to the editor o
the Gazette, that We need neither tn