The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-01-04


was to help the slave L hide him b.
hind Lafayette; and if the hisses OF New
York can reach him, God save Ncw
York. Now for the means: Msn So
the great folly was, he went with seven
teen men. If he had went with u mill
ior, and troddcn Virgnia under f'ct---
all right! If John Brown had gene with
an array that itself War, and assai.ed %
State or what calls itsclfa State, aud Civ
en- liberty to its victims. them, hv af the
shades of Clay and Webster, who tod
us that every pulse of our heart ouyht to
beat for Greece and for South America,
he would have been right. Over his
passage to Richmond, Webster and Clay
would have bent from their seats in heS.-
en- in approval if they ever got there
Now let us look at tbs means: He bad
seventeen men, or twenty-five. In tho
first place is Virginia State, saw She
is not. You think that is fanaticisln; but
if it is, it is two thousand years old
Cicero, tho great Roman statesman sav.,
in his treaties on Law, "Will "you emil
community of pirates commonwealth 2"
"Will you call n concord of thieves a
State?" "Will you call IN association #
Of wicked men State?" "Aegulis."
says the Roman, 'thou shalt deny it.
Now the heather craftsmanship of
C.csro is good enough for me. say.ths
State which does not ask the consent "f
its citizens 10 law which docs not I'm.
dertake to protect the inaiienabIc right IF
one half of her citizens, fnrfcits, before
God the character of civil community.
The State who sends one hsif its popula-
ton to the auction block, who imprisons
woman for teaching them to read: VIII.
steals the labor of every other ran, and
condemns him to the li.e of brute, i. not
a State, but it is concord of lrates.---
We'll, | don't suppose the doctrine is me-
c,ptsble. If you were 10 ask one-quar.
ter of the pulpits in the land, they would
tell YOU John Brown WINS crazy. I'll tell
you what it reminds ma Of Col.riigc
says when he was Mt college he spent n
night till one o'clock, studying over hi.
books, and then came down to the com
mon room, where his classmates had bean
drinking till they were con ,ilerahlv ipsv.
When | entered lie says, They All got
up AMI voted NE drunk because looked
SO odd Now, have no doubt Whist
ever, that to ono-haif the American pu!.
pit that man who undertakes to practice
the Sermon on the Mount or the Declare
ton Of Independence looks very eil.--
nd he is SO old, I don't know that any
thing can be done with him but to ian-
him.
Bat was speaking Of S,uth Carol
IA, she has got either to sink ;h.n hauA~
ruptcy or she has got to edu,atr hvr <.a-
yes. Now to educate her Saves. y mn
might ny we'll heat locomotive to a wh.s
heat, get astride of it aAd drive into
powder magazine, and South Carolra
luows it-knows it to-day, when .te
makes the threat that she will walk out
Of the nion. She knows that it is ony
to mako New York and Philadelph.a
merchants, whose souls never go home
even 70 dinner-but STAY in their ledger
and whose return in the month is twp
per cent, and whose en- Of ethics IS profit.
moi assassination. That's it-that is .Jnhl
Brown. Ike to grapple it. Yes; TIM,
is what each age has said Of men who
cry out "Gnd ls G ii" and tramplc wick
ed laws under heir frct. Now that is
lust whore we stand john Brown sail
''these laws are unrighteou:, therefore
they are no laws. am bound to Obey
t5nd-I do. Tie present ago SAYS mn
feIon, and hangs me. appeal to the
next gen .ation." When John Hancock
left Bostol in l7..5, his righ fri soysrsign
ST. he W traitor; wien Joseph War
rem f at Bunker Hill, his rightful SOW
eregn said he was rebel Yes. and by
a better law than quaking Virginia ha.
got in all her statute books. A voice
'would you couple Joseph Warren nalns
with John Brown's" No, inIse1--t
do not couple John Brown with JOSEPH,
Warren---not bit. Joseph Warren is
not tall enough in that Heaven whore he
sits to-day, is not tall enough to- touch
the hem Of tie garment Of John Brown
of Uarper's Ferry. Joseph Warron was
an honc,t man; Joseph Warren was a
Patriot; Joseph Warren was a Iravs SOL
dier-an hon st citizen; but John Brown
is more than all that. | say Joseph War
rem was simply soldier; nothing more.
If John Brown had been shot at the door
cf that Armory the world would never
have known that he was any more tham
Joseph Warren; but God in his provi-
dence said, Come up hgher-I will
II ell million Of hearts BY that old Puri-
tan soul"
A VOICE. want to know who con-
stltuted John Brown the Judge of the laws
of the United States.
Mr.. Phillips-If the audience care,
will answer that question. God made
him judge when be made him man.
Every human bsing is bound to Judge Of
tie righteousness of law before he obevs
it. If his conscience tells him it is un-
righteous, be has no right to obey it,
John Brown had a right to judge tho
S ate laws of Virginia on that account.
You are sitting here tonight. and you
say John Brown had no right to interfere
in the matter Well, I ask you then.
why do you interfere9 Your sixteen
muskets held up the master, bis twenty
two, tried to hold up the slave-which il