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

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,irhts or those Of their neigh bors-but
here were girls Of Is and 10 Summers,
accepting serenely their place of martyr
dom, for race into Who's eyes they had
never looked. There has not any thing
been rs holy, nor that approached Il
since the cross that stood On Calvary
for n race in whose blood even the Dl-
vine Savior had no share. | mean what
l say. The heroes of the races died for
their own rights. he died for y raco III
whose blood he had no share. Now had
he right 10 die Was he q felen 3
What were bis m2tivess Virginia being
the witness; they ~ero disinterestod.-
There is no need Of disc Jssing that point
when Virginia herself acknowledges that
his motives were pure. This is great
thing to get; that acknowledgement, by
the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a
marvel, for Virginia lifts the gag from the
Natural Bridge to IIarpess Ferry. |
will give you an instance of it, and will
use it to Illustrate another point. Vi hen,
in the midst of the battle of ltarpers Fer
nv, the Mayors body lay within range of
the rifles of those Northern boys--his
friends wanted to bring it off, but none Of
them would 60. At last the porter of the
hotel said to a lady, ifyou,wlll stand be
tween me n I'd the rifles, will 60; and he
went. He knew he could trust the gentle
sacredness Of woman in the eyes of those
brave Nolt,ern boys He went ard
placed the body in carriage, and shet-
cred by her presence carried it back in
safety. A day later, VIII II .hatvcry girl
flung herself on the breast Of one Of those
very young men whose rifles were spiked
when she stood before them, the son Of a
Virginia gentleman--and he dared to
avow it in the Courts of his native State
encouraged by his father, showed that
that womans form which had saved Viz
ginin could not save that Northern boy
from the merciless bullet of Virginia
brute. That is the difference between
Northern blood and Southern. Well, if
YOU don't think there is any difference,
content yourself. "You had better go
home" But to-day, in the streets at
Harper's Ferry. that very girl djsavows
her act. She saws: Il did not do It from
humanity; did it to save soiIing my SIS
tar's carpet" DO you believe her! Not
bit of it. She was . true woman, with
the heart of woman, OF. that morning
when she threw herself, with rue w"-
manly instinct, between the hunters rifle
and Young Thompson's life. But today
the despotism Of Virginia thus brushes
everything, bIights her soul, and renders
her capable of llisavowing her own brave
rv in order that she may stand well with
the community where she lives. Despo-
tism again John Brown revealed it.
But was speaking Of the net. What
was his pu:poseF 1t WAS to free the
slaves. Is this honest, or is it not Is it
hon st that the slave should rise anl take
his master by The throat and mark his
way to liberty over MS may dead bodies
as would lead from Virginia to Canada I?
Is it. OF IS it not
Wei, I was born at the bssc of Bunker
II |! AID say it is right. There is no doubt
Of it, and gentlemen. if a slave with the
blood Of his master on his right hand
stood AT the door, not one o. lose men
but would admit him and shut the door
behind him against any bouni that was
following him from Virginia to Nav YORK.
There is something in the heart o. n hui
m N being that could not say no to tho
eIcouence Of Of that black friendicss face
don't believe that tho man exists wi O
can say it to the slave. whatever lie may
saw TO us here If he did; if there was
one capable Of saying were my mnthor
stricken down on one side and my wife
upon the other. and my daughters sold
unou the auction-blOck because our skins
were not the color Of the majority, and
would not lift his right hand to 81 id
himself or save the n, | would say al Ia It
that my principles might be doubtful for
I had found the man ut length that seem
| ed made to be O slave But do not be-
Iieye in the existance of such as anomaly
Now we come to his purposo-it was q
| little different; it was not the slave that
| that rose, but Brown went to help him
rise. Is that right? Answer Byron from
your marshv bed of death at Misselonghi.
! Ifnot, why did you go to help The Cracks
Answer kosciusko from Your monument
on the banks of the Hudson? If not why
did YOU come to help us! Answer, LAT
ayetto. T"We were white men," All
YES. "whte men'-that shows the point
and. as John Brown said is the mat .hless
eloouence of that immortal speech before
the Court aft had done what | have
for white or rich men, no man would have
blamed me-" thought az | stood on
those Vermont hills over which we car
ried his body to its last resting place, and
saw in the open doors the blue-eyed ba-
bies of the Vermont farmer, lying snug
in their cradles, | thought how often the
hand of the Carolinian was laid on the
brow of the little black babe in it moth
ers lap saying this is mine, and selling it
at the auction block. while the Cbulc Oh
says amen, and the State says its right
But let lis see man put his hand on the
blue eyes of one of those blue-eyed babies
of the mountains. and the mountains will
overwhelm Carolina, and in spite of all
politicians and pulpits, that child will have
to come back to those hills. The other
one was black, that is all the difference
LAFAYETTE said, "Had I known that it was
! To he n ren,iblic ht.idino slaves 7 reva,