The weekly Anglo-African., 1859-12-10


zrnen surrounded two thousand.n "Seyen-
Ateen men terrified two thousand brave yir-
Gglnlans into two days submission-tkot
scannot be got over"
I Surely, it is most charitable to suppose
that Mr.. Beecher was bereft of his "calmn
when he uttered these sentences, and after
wards when he carefully prepared them for
4the press; we are unwilling to charge him
with want of truthfulness, he was only
sstartled into concealment of the truth.
D Virginia would never have trembled at
seventeen, nor seventeen hundred white
Hmen in arms, had they been all John
;saBrowns it was the five black men armed
Ito the teeth, and the hundred thousand
@black men in their midst armed with a
Aquarrel just, who caused the Virginians to
Etremble and shudder.
IS Mr.. Beecher must have read the naneys
must have read that there were twenty-two
sssslhVaders, seventeen white and five black
why does me omit all mention of the lat !
Sszter Were they not men2 Did not few
Aof them hold sixty whites imprisoned in am
BODYBUILDING incapable of defence2 Was
Enot one slain at the door of the engine
Sbuilding2 Were not two others found de-
Efending that building to the last, with
y ohm Brown and his sons?
How does the record stand2 The six
Nteen white men who crossed the bridge att
Harper's Ferry with their brave command
Ter, had three alternatives all of which hap!
opened to them, defeat, death, escape-andI
sof the sixteen at least four did escape. The
! five black men who followed John Brown, /
like the heroes of the German myth, knew
sthat for them there was no re-crossing of
THE dark river, they went forth to their
death with faith as pure and heroism as
exalted as any of their companions butt
lone of them has caped-those who did,
mot fall in the fight, did on the day we now
commemorate, stand up in their hard wonE
Ishackles and receive the heroic greetings of
their heroic leader as he went forth to his
death, leaving but one traitor behind him,
and he white man
In view of these facts, which had already
been shown forth even in the pictorial
papers, of which he is fond, surely HenryE
Ward Beecher violated historic truth withs
sorry meanness, when he ignored the fvea
black companions Of John Brown, as thor
oughly as if he had been impenetratedE
with the bred Scott decision SO deeply that ]
he dared not announce that black men had
even the right to be recognized as heroes
when found among heroes and equally he !
roic.
g. man there came, whence none could tell, /.
Bearing touchstone in his hand 4
And tested all things in the land.
BY its unerring SPELL
" A thousand transformations rose, 4
From fair to foul, from foul to fair; B
The golden crown he did not share,
Nor scorn the beggar's clothes -"
OF heirloom jewels priced so much,
Were many changed to chips and clods,
And even statues of the gods, r
Crumbled beneath his touch" "a
1t is more in sorrow than in anger that
we are forced into making painful contrasts E:
'ut, taking up Mr.. Beecher's anti-sIavery s
aith. as exhibited in this sermon on Har- q
'ers Ferry, and comparing it with john Il
Browns faith, as exhibited by his works, sS
We firmly utter and joyfully record our z
aith in the Gospel according to John &
Brown. Mr.. Beecher's silken eloquence, n
with broad wool of cotton) will no doubt u
ucceed in erecting on Brooklyn Heights q
magnificent edifce of beautiful architect
Ire, but through its pillared aisles and 3
i'm religious light there can go forth but
"coT ct Preeterea nihil," while earnest, Es
onest men will make pilgrimages to the 4
pot near Charlestown, where was hushedz
he voice, or to North Elba, amid whose 81
ublime Businesses now reposes the body, l
f John Brown, whose example, so pure, 81
o simple, SO grand-we had almost said "a
o perfect-will win thousands to worshipH
hat God who is no respecter of persons S
The American Church, or the Church q
4 America, has received two stingingM
lows sof late, one from Mr. Hovey, who z
gently died in Boston, leaving directionsM
4 his will, that no clergyman should BEE
ermitted to officiate at his funeral; andM
he other from J ohnBrown, when heexpelledM
ne ministers of Charlestown from his cell q
'ut how shall we characterize in words an
accident showing the Christ-like nature of
ne latter, when, stepping from the Jail
DOR, and finding, in his way to the gal d
)ws. a black woman and child, he stooped%