Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-02-04
JOHN BROWN. JR.

Dear Reader-WheD you was reading the last
Agitstor we we're visiting the family Of John
Brown Jr. A little business. q kind suggestion
from a brother Of Capt. Browns and an impera-
tive demand from our over worked BRAIN, deter
mined the visit.
10 a cory cottage 10 Dorset, Ohio, VIC found our
-fFiends. The family consists Of Mr.. aud Mrs.
Brown and Master John, their only child. Mr., B.
10 ofmedium size; brown hair, and eyes mild and
blue as the summer sky. H. is quiet, but genial;
he neither courts nor avoids s%tciety. As be now
seens he is the last man in oil tho world one
would select for a lover Of war or q leader in bat
We; aud, IL We do not greatly mistake, a terrible
xroug or a cruel outrage, is oil that has or ever
will, call him from the quie, Of his happy home.
But the presence oil Sharp's rifles assured US that
y was no! qiite safe for the enemy to ,respass up.
On his righ,s. These iron m arc shock
ingly at war with our peace principles bu. if the
tigers half brother will neitbe reason or respect
., human claims-what is to be doue7
as- Mrs. Brown, the fortunate wife Of John Jr., is
= q rather small. b!ackeyed woman. possessing a
large share Of heroism and that rare commodity
common sense. She shared her husbands prison
10 Kansas. and nursed him while suffering from
chains and blows. Her Kansas experiences; her
wa,chfulnoss and sickness; her terror Of the heart
less mob that burned her house. robbed and muir
dered q brother and i'm Imprisoned her husband, is
written upon her young brow, and the spriukles
Of grey In her dark hair. Their child occupied
much Of our time and attention. Ia his own Ian
guage, he was tied fast to "a big, ugly spiint; put
on by the Doctor just because hs happened to fall
and break his leg. We played at ball with him.
exhausted our stock of stories and then listened
while he read the story Of "Goody Two Shees,"
and the very remarkable history of the death and
burial of Cock Robin" 1t mate little difference
to him which book he read the same story from,
or which side was up. lie reminded US Of a little
girl who. to prove to US that fhe could read, read
the Lords prayer from the Dictionary.
How long this loving trio are to be thus united
remains to be seen. The Investigating Committee
in Washington are awaiting the coming of Mr..
Brown. lie may go; but a Virginia gallows has
90 few charms that there is some doubt about the
mattel. One. two or ten men will not be sufficient
TO take him FROM home unless he choose to go.
The citizens there about are expecting a call from
Virginia and have repaired to answer it. Three
hundred men have Joined the Liberty League and
and will stand or fall together. We saw the in
side OF no house where rovolvers or rifles we're not
suspended from the walls. There Is no effect
without a cause. The history Of these revolvers
date back Of the Harper's Ferry or Kansas wars.
These wars had a cause, and terrible has been the
effect. So long as the soul is vainly asking for
freedom, so long as might / 8 ~right-so long as wo
are taxed to support the wicksdest institution un-
der heavan-just so long there will be a demand
for the halter and the sword C~leceland A9itator.