Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-01-11


! For Market Reports and Marine News see fourth
page.
Tho London Press on the RHeeutiOn OF John
Brown.
The London Morning Star Of the Goth Dec.
says
There was no 'bunkum' in Brown. North
and South in the United States admit that
there was, TO use a f8vOrite and expressive
phrase Of theirs. the true grit in BTown.-
| There was no fine sand in his composition,
sleekly and ignominously sliding through the
| hour-glass of lite lie was an angular bit Of
granite that kept It's place on the shore OF events
| though all the surges Of the sea beat against
it. He was gnarled oak, unbenling before
| the tempest In this place. nor at this time,
We neither discuss his aims nor his conflict;
neither its Wisdom nor its consequences; we
have 10 do to day with q stsrn, single minded, &,
Godf-earing Puritsn, who has died for an idea,
and that distinguished and generous one
We will not allow any opinion upon his princi-
pies 70 jar with his ughtfu estimate Of his
| personal qualities. We do not treat him as a
martyr, but as q man. The world Il full
enough Of those who, in supine ease, shrink
from the discharge Of tame dnties, and II un-
selfish heTOism CLEANS on the world from q
4
OsAwatomie Brown 'What a name to I'll
the speaking trump Of fame He must be, in
a way, man Of genius to reconcile the f.stid-
iOu5 ears of Europe to such pairoBymic Yet
| for the space Of six weeks that name has
eclipsed all others in the free prcss Of two
worlds. Ournews columns have informed our
readers Of the events Of HarPer's Ferry-the
subsequent capture, trial and sentence Of one
| John Brown; Oftener called odd BTown,' and
better distinguished as '0sawatOmie Brown. ,
| The last American mail brought, as our readers
Of yesterday saw, particulars OF his execution.
Brown was a man moulded n hardship, and
the Billie. Baxter's Saints Everlasting Rest
and Bunysn's Pilgrims Progress did for him
v hat Swifts Tale OF a Tub did for Goblet.
CObbett read in Kew Gargens, Brown as he
lay in churchyar1s, OF following the troops Of
bis country engaged in patriotic struggles
Brown had Puritan mind. He feared God,
but evidently, from his youth upwards, feared
nobody else.
lie is what is sometimes dsnominated
'sduare man., with a back bOae perfectly
straight Very firm men incline little from
the perpendicular. Brown inclined none. He
was no stump orator His menial compost
ton was Carly ylesque. He acted; and stool
bv his acting. HIS eountrymen who did not
sympathizs with his principles, even those
widely opposed to him, could not but feel graf
fled az the American nerve he had displayed
unainehiugIY to the end. He was wounded
when taken, and lay on a bed in court, on his
trial. His counsel set up plea thar he was
insane. The prisoner raised himself up and
said, that while he was not insensible TO the
intentions Of his defender. nor regardless of
the IoWer Of the Court, yet as an honest mn
he must say that he was of sosnd mind. He
was not the intentional cause Of the calamities
which had occurred, but what ne had done he
intended and he stated with distinctness and
correctness his own course OF conduct His
obvious truthfulness, which no vanity ampi
fed, nor any fear abridged, Was conspicuous
He neither brayed his sentence OF shrunk from
it. His conduct was utterly free from effect
making. His speech was always that OF a
modest, determined, shrewd, sensible, well pos
sessed man. Mrs Brown herself seems an
equally remarkable wOaaarand II described as
being courageous without inssnsibility, tender
without weakness and her bearing in the last
interview was worthy of Roman wife.
Brown, shortly efore his execution, address
sed letter to his wife, in which he enters with
4 practical good sense into his views Of the fu.
ture, and the education of his children, which
few moralists would surpass. The advice he
gives is as well conceived and as APPLICABLE 70
The FIRE sides of New England and Old Eng
land as the Pithy aPOthegms of DR.. Franklin.
The noble passage deserved the distinction Of
repetition. He says:
Let me say a word about the efforts to edu-
cate our daughters. am no longer able 10
provide means to help towards that object, and
Il therefore becomes me not to dictate in the
matter. ! shall gratefully submit the direction
of the whole thing 10 those whose generosity
NAV lead them to undertake 1t in their behalf,
while give anew a little expression Of my
own choice respecting it You, my wife, per
feetly well know that bave always expressed
a very decided preference for very plain but
perfectly practical education for both sons and
daughters. ! do not mean IN education so
very miserable as that you and / received in
early life, nor as some Of our children enjoyed.
When / say plain but practical, mean enough
Of the learning Of the schools to enable them
to transact the common business Of life COM
fortably and respectfully. together with that
thorough training to good business habits
which best prepares both men and women TO be
useful though poor, and meet the stern realities
Of life with good grace. You well know that
always claimed that the music Of the broom,
washtub, needle, spindle, loom, axe, scythe,
hoe, fail, &c, should first be learned at all
events, and the piano, DC, afterwards. / put
them in that order as most conducive to health
Of body and mind and for the obvious reason
that, after life Of some experience and much
observation, have found ten women, as well
as ten men, who have made their marx N IJe
righf, whose early training was that plain,
practical kind, to one who had a more popular
snd fashionable early training
The merit Of the writer Of this admirable
advice was, that it was consistent with his
personal character, and the discipline Of his
household. Il is singular that this man should
be written about and spoken Of as fanatic.
Had be been that, we had not drawn attention
to him. He was no more fanatic than
tradesman or an artist, who discharges bis
duties in q right line, is a fanatic. He was
no more fanatic than George Stephenson, or
James Watt, or any of the men whom DR..
Smiles disconrses Of in his Self Help
We repeat, we do not discuss here the
object Of Brown, but the character OF his
life and mind. Il is also remarkable that
this strict-thinking Puritan desired for
himself and comrades the burial Of Shelly,
and wished that their bones should be
calcined and their ashes purified by fire. But
the tone in which he declined any religious GER
smony after his death has majestic mOumful>
ness in it. He said that he desired no religious
ceremonies, either in the gaol or on the seaf>
fold, from ministers who consent or approve Of
the enslavement Of their fellow creatures; that
he would prefer rather to be accompanied to the
seafTold by dozen slave children and good
old slave mother, with their appeal to God for
blessings on his soul, than all the elOquence OF
the whole clergy of the commonwealth combi>
ned This intense reliance on humanity the
late Leigh Hunt would have recorded as one Of
the heroic utterances Of the Religion Of the
Heart Browns end became his life. During
The ten minutes he was on the seaffold with the
rope round his neck, that certain military dis
plays might be perfected, ho neither blenehed
nor Wearied