St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1860-01-12

my honor that. all this took place, not j,
! Turkey, but in America, J.
/ Such things cannot, be done with impu
/ I;ty in the face Of the civilized world
The universal conscience Of humanity /.
an cver.watcSf,l eye. Let the judges O
Charlestown, and Hunter, and Parker
and the slavcholding jurors, and the wholt
population Of Virginia, ponder on it we'll
they are watched! They are not alone il
the World.o :. '@sF. . ..%-...
AT this moment America attracts TIL
eyes Of the whole of Europe. ..s... ,ss=.s#H Y
! John Brown, condemned. to die, was to
, been hanged on the I'd Of. Decem-
ber-this very day. ~s ,%,. IT,; =, ~ .
But news has just reached us. A res.
pite has been granted him. It IS not until
the 10th that he is to die. #.s,: Mt ii. .f..
/ Tho interval is a brief one. Before i,
has ended will cry for mercy have had
time to make ITSELF effectually heard? =.
No matter :! 1t is our duty to sreak
out. r.. i y 49,. !: -. III N>;t%
Perhaps second respite nay be grant
ca. America is a noble nation. The
impulse OF humanity springs quickly into
lite among a free people. We NAV vet
nope that Brown will be saved. 49, z -.
II 1t were otherwise, if Brown should
d1 e.. on the seafold ION the 18th Of Ueee,n.
Der, what a terrible calamity!
:. The exccutioner Of Brown, let Us a a,;.,,s
1t openly (tor the day of the Kings ii
past, and the day Of the peoples dawns,l
and to the people we are bound frankly to
speak the uth)-thc cxccutioner Of
TroWn would be neither the attorney
hunter, nor the judge Parker, nor the
Governor Wise, nor fhc State Of Virginia:
1t would be, though we qaa scarce think
or speak Of it without shudder, the
Whole American Republic 49,. - Z
The more one loves, the mora ono al.
mlres, the more one venerates that Repub.
nc, the more h,artsick one feels at the
{: Of such catastrophe. A
single State ought not to have the mower
to dlshonor all the rest, and in this case,
there 10 an obvious Justification for sd.
esai inserveas;on. Other wise, bv hcs;ta.t
t2' '1s to interfere when il might prevent a
crime the Union *beso1ues . participator
IN Its guilt. N Q matter how intanse may
he the Indignation of the. generoHs Norti-
ern States, the Southern States force them
to share the opprobium of this murder.
All OF. US, no matter who we nav be. who
are bound together as compatriots by the
common tie Of democratic creed, feel our.
serves IN some measure compromised. If
the. seattold should be crested on the 10th
Of: December, the incompatible voice of
history would thenccforward testify that
the august Confederation of the New
Weird had added to all its ties Of holy
brotherhood brotherhood of blood, and
the jasces Of that splendid Republic would
oe bound together with the running moose
that hung from the gibbet of Brown. - g;
" 1t is bond that can only kill. &c. ..s.; 7
When We reflect on what Brown the
l'berator, the champion Of Christ, has
strlyen to effect, and when VIC remember;
that ne is about to die, slaughtered b. the
American Republic, the crime assumes an
Importance coextensiye with that Of the
nation which would commit it; and when
we say to ourselves that this nation is one
OF the glorics Of the human race: that.
like France, like England, ike GERMANY,
she is one of the great agents Of ,cisiliza-
ton; thatshe, sometimes even leaves En-
rope IN the rear BY the sublime. audacitv
OF some Of her progressive movements
that she is the Queen of an entire world.
and that her brow is irradiated with plo.
rious halo Of freedom, we declare our con- &
viction that John Brown will not die. for
we recoil horror-struck from the idea Of
so great crime committed by 50 great
people. II +. s..s T. I'D 81. IN. /
Viewed in . political light, the murder.
Of Brown would be an irreparable fault.
It would penetrate the Union with agap-
ing assure which would lead ia the end
to its entire disruption. It is possible that
the execution Of, Brown might establish
Slavery On firm basis in Virginia, but It
is certain that it would shake. to it's center
the entire fabric Of American democracy.
You preserve your infamy, but you sacrii-
fee your glory ='&&,5
Viewed in moral light, it seems to
me that . portion ofz.he enlightenment
OF humanity would be collapsed, that even.
the ideas Of Justice and injustice would
DC obscurcd on tue day which should wit.
ness the assassination Of emancipation BY
liberty. .'sI
As for myself though I am but : mere
atom, yet being, as ! am, in common with.
sll other men, inspired with the conscience
Of humanity, fall on my knees weeping
before the great spanglcd banner Of the.
New World, and With claspetl hands, and
with profauna and flial respect, I implore
the illustrious American Republic, sister
Of the French Republic, 70 sec 70 the!
safety Of the universal moral Law, 70 save
John Brown, 70 sdenaolish the threatningg
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