Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-01-28
From the London Morning Star.
THERE WAS NO BUNKUM' IN BROWN.

North and South in the United States admit
phrase OF theirs, the true 'grit' in BRowN. There
was no hne sand IN his cum position, sleekly and
Ignominiously sliding through the hour-glass Of
lie. lie was an angular bit OF granite that kept
Its place on the shore of e~yenis-though all the
surges OF the sea beat against it. lie was a gnarl-
ed oar, unbending before the TEN pest. ln this
place, nor at this time, we neither discuss his aims
nor his conflict; neither its wisdom nor its conse-
.quences we have to do to-day with a storm, sin
gie-minded, GoD-tearing, Puritan-souled man,
who has died for an idea, and that a disinterested
and generous one. We will not allow any opinion
upon his principles to jar with the rightful es,;-
mate Oh his personal qualities. We do not treat
him as a marty but as q man. Tho world is full
enough OF those who, in supine ease, shrink from
the discharge of tame duties, and if unselfsb he
roism CLEANS on the world from a scaffold, it
should not want acknowledgment.
OsAwAToMIE Brown What a name to fill the
speaking trump Of fame = He must be in a way
a man of genius to reconcile the fastidious ears of
Europe to such a patronymic. Yet for the space
OF Six weeks that name has eclipsed all others &C.
~ fiSSp VI W nOElu OuT
news columns have informed our readers of the
events of Harper's Ferry-the subsequent Cap
ture, trial, and sentence of one JvnN Brown , Of
tener called OLD BROWN and better distinguish
ed as OsAwAToMIA BROWN The last American
mail brought, as cur readers of yesterday saw,
particulars of his execution. Brown was a man
moulded IN hardsbips and the Bible. BAxrER's
Saints Everlasting Rest and BUNYAN's 'Pilgrim's
Progress did for him what SwIF1's Tale of a
Tub did for CoBBETT. CoBBETr read in Kew
gardens-BRowN as he lay in churchyards, ur
'olio~ing the troops of his country engaged in
patriotic struggles. Brown had a Puritan mind.
lie feared Cop, but evidently, from his youth up.
wards, feared nobody else. lie was what is some
times denominatod a square man. with a Jack
bone perfectly straight Very firm men incline
a little IRON tho perpendicular. Brown Inclined
none. BE was no stump orator. His mental
composition was Carlyesque. He acted and
stood by his acting. His countrymeu who lid
not sympathise with his principles, even
those widely opposed to him, could not but
.ieci gratited at the American nerve he
displayed uaAinchlngly to the end. IIe was
wounded when taken, and lay on bed in court
on his trial. His counsel set up a plea tina, be
was insane The prisoner raised himself up and
said, that while he was not insensible to the in.
tenilons Of his defender, nor regardless of the
power OF the court. yet as an honest man he mus,
say that he was Of sound mind. HIS was not the
intentional cause OF the calamities which had oc-
CURED, but what be had done he intended and be
stated with dlstinctDess and correctness his own
course of conduct. His obvious truthlulness
winch no vanity ~amp!ifed nor any fear abridged,
was conspicuous. lie neither braved his sentence
nor shrunk 'rom 1t. His conduct was utterly
Tree iron e~ifect-making. His speech was always
that OF a modest, determined, shrewd, sensible
well-possessed man.
II is singular that this man should be written
about and spoken Of as o fanatic. Had he been
that, we had not drawn attention to him. lie WAS
no more u fanatic than a tradesnan or an ar,iat.
VINO discharges his duties in a right line, is {. fana-
tic. lie was no more a fanatic than George Ste-
phenson or James Watt, or any of the men whom
DR.. Smiles discourses OF in his Self uelu.' We
repeat we DO not discuss here the object of Brown.
but the character Of his life and mind. 1t is also
that this strict.thinking Puritan desi-
red for himself and comrades the burial of Shelley,
and wished that their bones should be calc;ned
and their ashes purified by fire. But the tone 10
which he declined any religious ceremony after
his death has IA majestic mournfulness in it, He
said that he desired no religious ceremonies, either
in the gaol or on the ~scaffold, from ministers who
to or approve of the euslayemen. of their
fellow-ereasures; that he would prefer rather to be
accompanied to the scatOld by a dozen slave chill.
dren and a good old slave mother, with their an.
peal to God for blessings on his soul, than all tho
of the whole clergy of tho common
wealth combined This intense reliance on bu.
the late Leigh Hunt would have recorded
as one of the heroic utterances of the Religion of
the Heart Browns end became his life. DIR
lng the ten minutes he was kept on the scaffOld
with the rope round his neck, that certain military
might be perfected, he neither blenched
nor wearied.
From the Anti Slavery Advocate TLendonN