Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1862-03-21


~, n, chnrleesown, yIrEinia, a.sl9'l
Outhe night Of the 9th Of October, 1859,
Joun RnowN with some eighteen insane on.
tHdsiasss lnaae kn uliswfal and wicked in
vksi0n npOn Harpets Ferry. BRowN was
taken to CharIeslown, tried, found guilty,
apd hung, rvirgiuiAns then declared that
the csims Of treason aud conspiracy could
only be altoned for with the life Of the
OtendeS, Which BY bis acts he forfeited.
The iast week Of February, 1899, 1--WE do
moi fspespbera the dAyl the Federal Army,
now engaged iuquslhug the most wicked
and uuholy rebellion the world has ever
kuoAu, appeared 10 tho vicinity Of this trag-
ia and historic spot. Tho Second Massa-
chaissstsi Regiment attached to General
Banks Division, msrched from Harper's
Ferry, into ChSrIestown, and occupied the
place. When the troops entered the town
the whole regiment broke out in the JOHN
.BRowE song aud chorus
sJohn Browns BODY lies rnouIdering In the srave,
Ssa SSsy lie. a the grave
iggd scFA HissOpl Y uarehiHs cal
esy elery, HaIeiujshi Glory. Glory BallsujAbi Glo
~, Gioty, HallelujRh
His soul Is marching onl
aon the ID day Of December 1889, we
Published an editorial article in the JouR,
MAI, which by many was pronounced as too
''strong n1eat,p and friends even regretted
that We spoke SO wildly as they termed it.
During the past two weeks we have several
times heard that article referred to as bsv-
ing been in advance of the times, yet true
and on request, republish it:
~ From the Fremont Journal, December 2, 1859.
The ExsouTIoS. accordance with the pro-
grnrame Of Gov. Wise, JoHN BRowN will to-day
be executed at Charlestown. What theme for
the contemplation of the American people,
What a lesson this execution will teach In the
heart of hearts will the memory of the infatua-
ted old man be treasured up by thousands upon
thousands Of the sons of toll and bondage whose
blHclc skin and crisp hair consign them forever
among the number ofthoss who shave no rights
which the white man is bound to respect" The
man JoHS BRowx, who yielded up his own life
in attempting to give them that liberty which
the Almighty vouchsafcd to every one of his
creatures, and which the Declaration of Inde-
pssdence guarantees to all upon the soil of
this Union, will be rcvered by the dispised and
degraded African race as we cherish the name
and memory Of WARRINGTON. Although the
scheme in which BEowN was engaged, we con-
denim. and pray God may never again be re-en-
acted in our country, yet the execution Of the
crary old man viii be a thousand fold more
bioodthirsty and vindictive. The South will
eventually find this prediction literally true
JoHr BEowN hung by Gov. Wise, will be ter
rible stroke to the slavery institution in the
South. The "irrepressible conflict" will go on
with ten-fold more strength than it ever had be-
fore. His blood, aud the blood and tears, and
stripes and groans of those for whom he suffered
viii be the means of tearing out every artery
and vein Of American slavery, breaking every
bond and setting every captive free.
"1he HOod Of als martyrs Is tie seed of tic
church" We make a prophecy. Before the
year 1870 the ,Abolitionists will hold high car
nival at charlestown, Va, ON the very spot
where to-day stands the gallows of the martyr
-JoHS BRowS.
By VirgiDians, and in fact by all the reb,
els Of the South, Massachusetts men are,
par excellence denominated Abolitionists.-
See row, how these Massachusetts soldiers
conducted themselves on this blood-conse.
Grated spot in the @old Dominion" A cor
respondent writes: ''The troops are distrib-
uted through the town in halls and empty
houses. A part Of the Massachusetts Sec
ond occupy the Court House where john
BRowE was tried. On the walls where Sc
cession has drawn an eagle only to deface
1t and iascribe adeath before dishonor," are
written the names Of the present occupants
from Lynn, Salem and Boston. A Lynn
shosmaker sits in the seat Of the judge. -
The jury-box is filed with Salem sailors,
and men from al Massachusetts, form the au-
dience."
What rebel within all secessia, would
two years since have imagined such state
Of things to-day. Nowlet the Government
deal with Gov. Wise and his co-asoeiates 10
tssusoa as they deah with JoHs BRowS,
and loysl tnea throughout the world shall
say-Amen.
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