Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1860-01-26

Written for the Green Mountain Freeman.
Thoughts,
BY MAGGIE BELL.

'In that lone cell what thoughts what whe-robed
Kept wa Oh like vestals Ger the holy fire,
Round the bright alter Of his high desire,
Thou that didst Irvine around the Athenians sword,
The wreath made sacred where Hpparchus fell
Vert thou with him in that glorious cell2
Didst thou not fill the gloom and darkness,
With mighty prophecies which time shall t1ll?'
BULwER.
/" He was swung off at fifteen minutes past
eleven, Slight grasping Of the hands,
twitching f the muscles were,seen, and there
all was quiet, and the brave old man was,-
where? In the Land Of the Free! Magnani-
nous Gov. Wise Chivar3us sons of the
Old Domain !! You have wrought his fetter.
but the wing of hi, influence 10 chain can
euro. You have gi, en- him the dungeon
twas the key to he wen, and rest. You have
given him the d ath blow,-and deathless
fame, through the calm twilight of the old
mans Sc ting sun, came the angel of the
future, and in that cell, foreto the brighten
ing march of tn Star OF Liberty.
Glorious () Republic Land of the tree
and home OF the brGoe!! Do not the very
waters of your hills, and mountains cease
their ripple, and crimson for shame, as you
beheld the finger Of proud old England, point
ed at you in scorn, aud derision? For from
the limos soul of every honest human being
in this commonwealth, must come the shame
full, and degrading acknowledgement, that he
folds of that Wanted banner, which waved
over the innocence Of an infapt re, ublic, ami
which wa, never lowered to mortal fe, are
faxed and bood-staincd, that another pinion
has been plucked from the once broad wing
ofour nation eagle, but OH brave President
of these United States, whole-sou ed high
minded, and phianthropic James Buchanan
though you have weakened his wing, you have
strengthened his might, and when hat brave
old man ,wung upon the galows he struck a
blow for liberty, which will sound and re-
sound until hat " peculiar and favored inst-
tuition, shall totter to its base. The children
OF Mary Brown, the spartan wife, and mother,
who to-day mourns the death of three of her
loved ones will live to see, that those dear
lives were given as sacrifice to the cool of
three millions OF their br thren at the South
Believe m, this is no chimera of an excited
brain, it is prophetic truth. Still, those
craven Innrderers n-ed have no arS OF new
outbreak. Need not call out thu militia to
protect their rights; one life like that of John
Brown is a sufici-n sacrifice, and the instru.
m-n's of Divine Providence to overthrow
that upon which, Satan has set his SEAL may
now commenc4 at the foundation, and little
by lit lie undermine, until the supe structure
totters, -sways, and falls. cumbing ruin /:
when every state in our then glorious union,
shall join in weaving the laurel wreath Ct
Freedom, for the brow IF our national GODDESS
and the loud shout Of Freedom Forever +"
vii! echo i every valley between the Attic
Ocean, and thu Gulf OF Mexico. Yes, John
Brown has LEFT name not loosely twined
with his lands loftier hopes. Hi, tomb
claims this epitaph " Peace to his errors
he has served mankind"
JnhnSon Doo 1870