Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-10-20

'iors whom the world has orucihed. Aud juet in
proportion as reformers are enduod with this spirit,
II selfsacriGcs. willing to dare and to DO. to suf-
and to die, il need be; just in proportion a.
hey are lifted up above the world, can they draw
4 e world u? to them. This is not only scriptural
doctrine, but The doctrine OF sound philosophy,
mental aud moral.
Take another Of John Browns declarations,
which, to the Iowa legislator, SO strongly savored
Of insanity.
Any who will try to take me ard my company
are towards, and one man 10 the right, ready to
die will chase a thousand. Not less than thirty
guns have been discharged a. me. but they only
touched my hair. A man dies when his time
and a man who fears, 10 born out Of his
iime.'
How s~trikingly has a portion OF this declaration
been verified in the events Al Harptr's Ferry
One man 10 the right, and ready to die will chase
a thousand II such declaration be 4 proof of in
sanity, how utterly and hopelessly dethrOned must
be Ihe reason of that man who quotes literally the
entire scriptural assertion Ore shall chase a
thousand, and two put ten thousand to fight The
facts of the H.sper's Ferry war are patent to you
all. You remember how the Old Dominicn-es in
the poverty Of her pride she delights TO style her
self-how that Commonwealth which boasts of be-
ing the mother Of Presidents and the nurse UfI
statesmen, could not muster men enough with
courage enough. TO retske the town OF two thou
sand which the magnetic power OF Browns pres'
ence caused to crouch 10 the dust at his feet; and
that the forces Of Virginia were obliged to wait,
until the U. s. Marines attacked and captured
Brown and his handful in their nrmory fortress.
And you cannot have forgotten, how. when all
real and fancied danger was past. the cowardly
Virginisns brutally murdered poor Thompson, and
when he was dead, fei ociously asssailed his body,
aud riddled il with their musket balls. Truly
we're they towards who attempted to take him and
his company, for SO prevalent was cowardicp, and
60 contagious brutality, that the officer who led On
the u. s. Marines-Lieutonaut Green-acCording
TO his own testimony before the court which tried
Brown, struck the old man twice in the face with
his saber after he was down.
The extract from which | have last quoted, man
in the protecting power of a special Providence.
and would seem to indicate the truthtulness of "a
report tba, he held to the doctrine of fore-ordina-
tion,a belief in which doctrine, is not l apprehenj,
generally considered an evidence of insanity.
The escapes of Captain Brown when in Kansas,
from what seemed to be almost inevitable death,
were certainly calculated to strengthen his belief
in the special protection vouchsafed him By Prov
idence. II he was insane because he believed
what The facts seemed to demonstrate. then Daniel
was insane, when coming forth unharmed from the
EopJa don ba cknouladnad tho m o;al ;nNornnai
ton OF n divine power; then were the Hebrew chill
dren insane, when, stepping forth from the heated
furnace with not even the smell of fire upon their
garments, they praised the name of Him who had
protected them in the hour Of trial. The Provi-
dence which protected Captain Brown in Kansas,
be recognized as the same WHO placed the sword
in his hand with which to fight the bat'' I free
dom in Virginia, and who, when wounded and a
prisoner remained to be his comfort and his stay.
As the old man .ouchiugly observed, Christ once
armed Peter. So also in my case. l think be put
a sword into my hand, and thsre continued it SO
long as he saw best. and then kindly took it from
me- He was willing to act in behalfOf humanity,
or resigned to die for righteousness cake il the
Lord 30 willed it. He expected to die whom his
time came, and not until then. And although
there are those who believe the old mans death
wac un,imely, judging him by his own standard,
be certainly has not been born out Of time for
he afirms that it is the man who fears that is thu,
born.
THE INSANITY OF REFoRMERs.
All reformers who come as a voice crying in thu
wilderness which sin has made, are adjudged by
the world as being more or less insane. The very
message which they 5ear--'Prepare ye the way o
the Lord; make his path straight is, 10 the popu
lar mind, an undOubied evidence Of insanitg, which
should render the teachings OF such prophets o
no account. This is, perhaps, no cause tor sur
prise, fo- the message ~cOntemplates II state o
things utterly contrary to the usuage Of the world
and opposed TO the we'll established opinions anC
customs Of society. Either the world is insane
or Gods messengers are; and the multitude, in or
der to avert the former conclusion, uuhesisatingly
adop: the latter. When Jesus came to the peop!,
unheraIded by worldly power, having about hin
no prestige Of family connections, a poor man am
a despised Nazarine, preaching a religion utterl,
destitute Of the solemn and gorgeous rituals Of .r
Jewish worship, intoxicating a faith 50 dissimila
10 that of the Scribes and Pharisees. the Levite
and the Priests. making the love of man for hi
fellows, and the doing Of good deeds to Ilumanit,
The one great and acceptable sacrifice in the sigh
of God the Father; they to whom he was sent, in
stead of receiving his teachings, declared lie haiti
a deviP-he is insane. As is was With Jesus, s.
has it measurably been With all reformers. Tn
generations to whom the Saviors Of the world ar
sent, bsvs never been able to appreciate them; 40,
John Brown is no exception to the rule. Thos
who come after them can alone do them justice
and they not always.
SHOULD BROWN BE CONDEMNED
| would not knowingly unite with others 10 hOT
or a vile man, or strive to shield a criminal froI
just condemnation. The trial and sentence A.,
John Brown was no evidence Of his guilt. On tb
contrary, the Developments then made we're b.
the unfolding Of his many virtues; and it was nc
until after the Old man had received the sentence
death, that we knew how much there was to II
spect, 80 venerate, to love in Osawatomie Brown.
/ shall not dwell upon the troubles that he kne,