Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-12-10

ed to hold slaves, that be would do anything
" hich he believed right to prevent it. Though u
do not think it right to fight even for 80 good a
thing as TO free tho slaves, John Brown did.
When he found ne could not get them free without
fighting because their masters came and tried TO
shoot him and his company. he shot some Of them
and then the Shareholders killed two more Of his
sons. The old man was very sorry to loose thcm.
but he bad rather all bis children had been killed,
and beeo killed himself than not tried to free the
slaves. A great many men are willing to do
good, if they can do it without Inconvenience, or
without danger to themselves or their families
John Brown was not that kind Of a man. lie was
always ready to do good, no matter how %inconve-
nient, or how dangerous it was to himself.
His sons were killed in Virginia on the very day
that thee left home for thy visit to Oneida. And
after the sla veholders had killed them, they took
the old man, and shut him up in prison, and told
him they would hang him. But he was not sorry
be had tried to free the slaves, for he said that if
he had been a slave he would have wanted some
body to try to free him and If they hung him
for doing a good deed, he could not help It. He
believed he had done right, and that God was glad
he had done it.
There he was, shut up in prison by the slave
holders, never expecting to see his wife again, or
the rest Of his sons who had not been killed, nor
his daughters, one of whom, little Ellen, is only
Eve years old. Poor little girl! how she must
have cried when she heard her father had been
hung but l think she must have felt glad that
if he ,eas to be hung it was because he helped the
slaves, and not for do ing something wicked.
While John Brown was in prison he often wrote
letters to his wife and children, and his friends,
and / hope sometime thee will read them all. 10
one Of his letters to his wife. he said he would
like Ellen to learn these lines:
"Count that day lost who sc low descending sun
Views from thy hand no worthy action DONE"
t But Ellen had already learned the lines before her
t fathers letter came. ...
, Every opportunity that John Brown had. he
talked to the Shareholders around him, and told
: them how wicked it was to buy and sell people,
f and hold them as slaves. And some of those
: Shareholders will not, l think, ever forget what
: John Brown said and I should not wonder if he
1 thus freed more slaves after he was shut up in jail
/ than before. A preacher in Virginia thought that
' as the old man would have to die SO soon he would
perhaps like q n minister to talk with him about
Q God and Heaven, and about being prepared to die,
T and SO he went to see him. Captain Brown-as
e he is often callpd-received him very politely and
e when he learned what he came for. before he
q would talk with him about these things. he asked
Q the preacher if he thought every man ought to be
: free, and whether he would help a slave fight for
= freedom. And the preacher said No! for he be-
j. lieved that slavery was right. Then Captain
+ Brown told him he was no ChTistian-tha he
was no better than a heather who worshipped
n gods of wood aud stone. John Brown did not need
i any minister to talk with him, and prepare him fol-
death, for he had been preparing himself al! biz
1life for death, by doing unto others as he would
have others doto him-by loving the slaves and
trying to make them free. And because he tried
d to do what Christ told him he should-love his
D. neighbor as himself-the shareholders to-day took
him out to the gallows and hung him
is Yesterday his wife went to see him and bid
him farewell. . They ate their last meal together
in a Virginia prison, aud the old man asked o
blessing on it. as he always did when he sat down
. to eat. Soon after they parted. They must have
been sad because Of the parting, but neither Of
them were sorry that be was to die in 80 good q
cause. tlt igi4 .s E-t .t-ct I-r tt .o
Very likely thee may hear persons say, that
John Brown deserved to be hung. A great many
will probably think so, just as a great many
Thought that Jesus ought to be crucifed. Those
who, did cruelty him, did not know how good q
: being they were putting to death. Neither did
the slaveholders know how good a man they put to
death when they hung John Brown; and ! should
not wonder If he prayed on the ~gallows, as Je'
y sus did on the cross for his murderers-"Father
forgive them, for they know not what they do"
l shall write TO a man in New York lcity to send
IS thee q likeness Of John Brown, which l want thee
to keep as long as thee lives and when thee
o looks at it, remember that he was lung because
10 he tried to set the slaves FREQ, tried to prevch'
little girls like thee from being sold from theii pa
II rents. Aud when thee thinks Of this, l hope thee
will resolve to continue to try to do all thee can t.
make the people hate slavery, and quit holding
slaves. Although a LITTLE girl Of eleven may no
- be able to do much, she can co something, ant
Of that something she ought to do.
Thee will perhaps be surprised to have me sent
this letter through the "Anti-Slavery Bugle." bu
" while Twas writing to thee, remembered that man.
of those who take the paper have Ella Noras, o.
Marys. or Johns. or Ienrys Of their own. and
thought perhaps they, as we'll as thee, would lk'
TO hear something about John Brown which wa
~ :, written by IL FATHER.
lY THE SECOND.
Oh On the Friday Of last week, the Town Bell o
. Salem was tolled for the first time, Many a hear
was sad because Of the infamous deed which Vir
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