Southern shield., 1860-01-28
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's----.[ .[yss subject for criticism, ana, 'ss' ,-Sver an opportunity for blame arose, 1 or denunciation. It is not strange that, then, that rebellion, in part fostered in Europe, should call forth bitter remarks there.
 Let the Judges of Charlestown and the slaveholding jurors, and the whole population of Virginia ponder on 1t well they are watehed-they arc not alone in the world"
 They have pondered on it well, and the execution of John Brown has taken place.
 If the whole American Republic were | responsible for his death, as you say 1t is. | 1t would simply be responsible for most painful duty solemnly performed, and re- ceived with mourning resignation even by the most merciful, because of it's inn perative necessity. Justice demanded the 1 life of this man, for he had taken human life; necessity demanded it, for he was l the spirit and soul of a treason that 1 threatened the foundations of our nation ality--that would forever have been plot ting more bloodshed so long as he lived on earth.
 l You call the execution of Brown :, brotherhood of blood ;0 you say that {" the fasces of our splendid republic will be bound together by the running-noose that hangs from the gibbet."
 If this were true, if any brotherhood oi ] blood is connected with this painful event 1 it rests neither with the ".whole" Amer ican Republic nor with tho State of Vir- ginia; but it's red track may De found across the foam of the Atlantic, linking Exeter Hall with the sensation pulpits on this side of the ocean. The weight oi l John Browns blood lies with England and the confederates of England, who have, by their teachings, their money and crafty sympathy, led tho old man on te death. What but this band of blood 7 did the people of England expect when they gathered penny contributions throughout the length and breadth ol their land? Penny contributions-as il liberty were a tyrant or a pauper, to be intimidated or bribed by their infamous copper.
 What was this contribution intended for? An insult, or a fund for incendial.y uses? If sent to the United States fol the purpose of melting nisurrecsion, or h any way opposing our laws, then thai money was tho price of John Browns blood, and was the first strand of the hal ter that hung from his gallows.
 What did the people of Scotland expect when they rent the American flag in twain, and hung 1t, tattered and quiyer ing beneath tho indignity, over the head of an American woman, who snliledsbe. highly under the insult, and received aims after it was offered? Out of sucE acts and such insults the halter of Johr Brown was woven to such insidious en couragement the old man owes his death | Was there an English man or woman living who supposed that great nation
 would allow the treason thus instigate(
 on a foreign soil to ripen in her bosom
 and fail to panish it with all the force 0
 her just laws?
 I It is the people of England, then, witt very small party in the United States who are united by this "bond of blood.
 It rcddens the yestments of our sensation : ministers, not the ermine of our judges
 The sacramental tables of our politica churches are encrimsoned with It. an' the places once sacred are overshadowe l by the old mans crime. In these place when you call John Brown the "chan pion of Christ" it may be considere
 meek and holy languages but the grea
 mass of our American people will tur from such impiety with a shudder. Your lottcr closes with an appeal to oY