Red Wing sentinel. [volume] (Red Wing, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1861, 1860-02-04

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on it well-they are watched-they
are not alone in the world"
They have pondered on it well, and
the execution of Jhon Brown has
taken place.
If the whole American Republic
were responsible for his death, as you
say it is, it would simply be response
sible for a most painful nduty solemly
performed, and received with mornful
resignation even by the most merciful,
because of its imperative necessity
Justice demanded the life of this man,
for he had taken human lite necessity
demanded it, for he was the spirit
and soul of treason that threatend
the foundations Of our nationality-that
would forever have been plotting more
bloodshed so long as he lived on earth.
You call the execution Of Brown a
"brotherhood of blood;" you say that
the faces Of our splendid republic will
be bound to gather by the running
moose that hangs from the gibbet."
If this we're true, if any brotherhood
of blood is connected with this painful
event, it rests neither with thee whole
American Republic nor with the State
of Virginia; but it's red track may be
found across the foam of the Atlantic,
linking Exeter Hall with the sensation
pulpits on this side of the ocean. The
wei ght of John Browns blood lies
with England and the confederates of
England, who have, by their teachings,
their money and crafty sympathy, led
the old man on to death. What but
this band Of blood" did the people
Of England expect when they gathered
penny contributions as if ifLberty were
i tyrant or a paupcr to be intimidated
or bribed by their infamous coppers.
What was this contribution intended
for? An insult or fund for incen-
diary uses? If sent to the United
States for the purpose Of melting in.
surrection, or in any way opposing our
laws, then that money had been the
price of John Browns blood and was
the first strand of the halter that hung
from his gallows.
What did the people of Scotland
expect when they rent the American
flag in twain, and hung it, scattered,
and quivering beneath the indignity,
lover the head of all American woman
who smiled benignly under the insult
and received aims after it was offered?
Out Of such acts ana such insults the
halter Of John Brown was woven; to
: such insidious encouragement the old
man owes his death.
Was there an En- ,lish man or wo-
man living who supposed that great
nation would allow the treason thus
instigated Oh foreign soil to ripen in
her bosom, and fail TO punish it with
all the force of her Just laws !?
! 1t is the people of England, then,
| with very small party in the United
States, who are united in this s'bond Of
blood" 1t reddens the vestments Of
our sensation ministers and not the
ermine of our judges. The sacrament
|al tables Of our political churches are
|encrimsoned in it, ana the places once
) sacred are overshadowed by the old
| mans crime. In these places when
you call John Brown, the "champion
of Christ" it may be considered meek
and holy language, but the great mass
of our American people will turn from
such piety with shudder.
} Your letter closes with an appeal
to our Republic. How little you
know of the land you compliment and
revile in the same breath. Liberty
! with us subjects herself to the laws
which she has inspired, and he who
|revolts against these laws sings against
her and the whole people whom she
'|protects. She sprang, another Miner
iva, from the minds OF the patriotic
Statesman, modestly clad, serene and
beautiful; she presides over our Re-
public, and has SO far protected it
from anarchy or oppression. !.
u It is that our Republic may have no
tl sisterhood with those of France that
{ such insurrections al you denominate
a sacred duty,' are met with the
whole force of our laws. Were they
}, permitted to obtain foothold in the
land, our Republic might indeed be.
| come sister to those Of France, and
perish as they did.
81 Had the insurrection at Harper's
Ferry succeeded, the scenes of anar.
|chy which left France lying like an
unnatural monster satiated with the
blood of her own children, might have
been repeated here. But we are not
: yet prepared to see innocent babes
: shot down in battallions, or fair girlt
compelled to drink blood frothing from
a yet warm human heart, in order te
/: redeem their fathers from the hatchet
We are not prepared to see our pas
tors slaughtered at the foot of thei'
: own affairs, or hear coarse songs thun
: dering, through the solemn arches o
our temples. It is to save our coun
!. try from: consanguinity with Republics
E founded on atrocities like these tina
our laws crush rebellion when it frs
r creates ITSELF