New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-11-03

vCred 10 Nre&k vengeance W taAH'S "s 'sSe
The banks Of the Potomac river VIII WAT more andy
because he has ilded il with the eternal engn,ne~ OK
bis glorious deed, than that the dnst OF Washington
rests upon one side Of the river II the Virginia
dare TO hang him after this mockery OF tria1, WIZ
take two Wsshngtous at least to make the iver any
thing but abemlnable 10 the ager that after us.
Kisses and sPplanse.l Wei, l say what really
think. apply this element that Brown has introduced
into American politics for another The South
i a great power There WAS no cowar'iice in Virginia.
Laughter II was not eowardee. Renewed
laughter and interruption. Though ! try 10 speak
plainly. you will usnndersiand me. There no cow
ar,iice in Virginia. The South are not towards. They
are brave enough but they unconscorsiy saw lar on,
and comprehendsd the tremendous power that wasen
terng into that charmed circle. Virginia did no, ,reni-
bic at the old gray-headed man OF Harpers rery.
They trembled at John Brown IN every man con-
science. Sensational Did you ever see blacksmith
shoe n restless horse Ii YOU have, Won have seen
him take small cord and tie his upper lip. IL YOU
ak him, why il is, be viii tell You he does II 70 give
him something TO think about Now the South has
extensive schemes. She grasps toward Cnha wlsh
the one hand, and toward Mexico with the
other She dictates terms 10 the Church and conons
10 State she buys Webster with little. and an
Everett with nothing. lAppause. John Brown
has given Us something else 10 think OF. APPLAUSE
lie has turned attention inwardly and taught US
that there has been created new element IN this
Northern mnd-tha II is rot merely the thinkers ana
editors and moral reormers, but the idea has perne-
ated all classes of society. Call him madman II you
will. II is hard to tell who is mad. The world sys
the man is mad. John Brown SAID the same OF the
Governor. The mad man in Edinburgh, when
friend asked how he happened to be IN tho
asylum, said, They said at home that was
mad. | SAID not; but they had the MAJOR
ity. Il is just 70 with Brown. The nation Jays no "
mad but appeal from Philip drunk 10 Philip sober
from the American people drunk to the American peo-
pie fifty years hence, when the light of civilization has
bsd more time TO penetrate. Applause. When that
dav comes what sha be thought Of these first martyrs
these men of sincere purpose and earnestness Sup
pose en- that momentous Monday night, when the exc
cited imagnations of ten thousand Charlesown peopla
swelled that little band into four hundred white
men and two hundred blacks he hal vanished,
and when the gallant troops arrived there they had
found nobody. The mountains would have been
peopled with enemies; the M'eganies wonld have
been alive with nsurrection, and You never would
have convinced Virginia that all Pennsylvania was
not armed on the hills. She has not slept since
Nat Turner got mp the instruction IN iSai. She
bids fair never 10 have nap now. Laughter. ms
was not an instruction. There never was a race
held in chains that absolutely vindcaicd their own
liberty, but one. The blue-cyed Anglo.Saxon did
not. II was not until commerce and Christianity
ard different laws had changed the systems, that
we emerged from villainage. The only race IN
the record of history that ever, afer a century
Of oppression retained the yigor, and right, ana
charter of his emancipation with his own hand IN inc
blood Of the dominant race, was the despsed ana ea-
minated and sandered blacks of san Domingo.
They were their own leaders, and with their own
ideas abolished slavery the soil This event IL the
lesson of the age TIE first fruit of the seed planted
by Slavery is such n man as John Brown.
lie il defeated; but what is defeat Nothing but
Notwithstanding but "A step to something better.
All tha, IL wanted is, that public opinion shan not
creep round like servile coward, IN obedience !"
corrupt disordered, and insane public oplmon--pro-
claiming that Governor Wise is Governor, beeasuse ms
says h. Is Governor and that Virginia Ia n State be-
cause he saws she is. Our wing OF the Aboitionsts
claim that there was not Virginia yum hred at Johii
Brown Hundreds of well-armed men from Maryland
and Virginia never dared To pull trigger. fon shot
him 4 thank (,od L not "A citizen. SNteen ma
rinrs whom YOU pay eight dollars per month--yoar
represenatives-when the disturbed State could not
stand her own legs yoa went mere ana Strength
eued her feeble knees, and held up the pail
sled arm. Sixteen aroed men, with the vultnre OF
the Union above them sensationl, your representa-
tvee. II was covenant with death ana an agree
ment with hell, which you call the Union OF thirty
States With pirate hand they took the old man by the
throat and If he is hung it will be Disgrace 10 our
civilization. "Tbe most resolnte man ever saw, says
Gov. Wise !" the most daring, fsarless-" would
certy truth courage resolution, darng-Nrginia has
nothing for these qualities but the scaold. Sensi-
ton. In her broad dominion she can only Afford him
FIX feet OF earth for a grave. tiod help the CONF
monwealth that bids such welcome To the noblest
qualities that grace poor human nature. Yet that
is the Acknowledgement of the Governor himself.
have said they were not Government. They have
not the rerote-t idea Of what Government is Hero
is a man arrnigned before u Jury. The first step in "a
trial il the Jmryhe second the Judge and at the head
stands the Executive Of the State, who IL 10 put his
hand 10 the death-warrnnt before be executed
That Executive according TO the principles laid down
in the sublimcst chapter in Algernon Sydney's great
book bound by the very responsibility Of his position
10 keep his mind impartial as to the guilt Of the
prisoner, hastens down 10 the place and proclnims
that the man is murderer. The moment ho
uttered these words under the English law il would
have been impossible TO have impanclIed jury i'm
Virginia. The worst Jefireys that ever tried case
would not have brought man to trial who could
not stand on his feet There is such record on the
blackest roll of tyranny OF the Stuarts, and IL single
bone OF Jeifreys remains unrotted II would knock
against the sides of bis coffin against any Judge who
would debase even The infamy OF Jefreys by bringing
a prisoner into courtroom on pallet, 10 be tried.
Yet the kew-York press daily printed What II calls
accounts OF the trial The inquision used 10 break
mems bones and IN the rack get something Ike cOn-
fesson, and call II trial IL was heaven-robeh inno-
cence compared with what the New-York press
calls trial, which has been going on in
the frightened City OF Charestown. speak
what will be but the breath OF summer
breeze compared with the tornado of robuke that
will come back with the press Of Great Britain. l
wish could ray anything worthy OF the great deed
which has taken lace in our day-the opening Of the
sixth seatbe pouring ont OF me last wal but one on
"A corrupt and giant institution. ! have seen the day
when this same phase Of popular action was an The
other side. You remember the first time | was priy-
leged 10 stand upon this platform by the magnannons
generosity Of your clerymaL-.hen New-York
bowed 10 a bully, and crushed freedom Of speech at
the dication ofCapt. RENDERS. From that day this
that same eaveDng of public thought has been going
on from here 20 kansas, until u booin"d
in the events Of the last three year, IL has
changed the whole face If public sentiment ia ihese
Northern S'ates You meet with the evidences every
where. when tie news first came, IL was singular,
20 where You woud-nO one, Wing, Democrat, or
Republican spoke If the atrocty OF the acf, or the
fault Of Brown. TIE first mpulsve outbreak ofeyery
mans heart was, :" What pity he didn't succeed
What fool he was for no, going of Monday, when
he had got what he wanled." IL indicated tho .
anxious sympathy with the attempt. DO these
things mean nothngl What the tender and
poetic youth dreams to-day, but dare no, put in artcu