The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1865-09-20

and replied, You have ncighbors.' 1
said, SO I have, but they are not here,
and I cannot go for them The old man
lreplied, 1t matters not, and told him to
get ready. My husband wanted to put
on his boots. and get ready, so as to be
protected from the damp and night air,
but they would not let him. They then
took my husband away.
x Il j: 4: i: j:
; After they were gone, thought I heard
my husbands voice in complaint. Next
morning, Mr.. Wilkinson's body was found
about one hundred and fifty yards from
the house, in some dead brush. A lady
who saw my husbands body said there
was cash in his head and side. Others
said hat he was cut in the throat twice.
"Mr. Doyle and his sons were murder
ed on the same night with Sherman and
Wilkinson; and Mrs. Doyle's deposition
gives this account Of it. (IIcre follows
several depositions.)
"Nlrs. Doyle wrote letter to John
Brown during his Imprisonment, showing
that she still regarded him as the muir
| CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Nov. %, 1860.
4 john BRowN-Sn: Although VEN
Igeance is not mine, l confess 1 do feel
gratiied to hear that you were stopped in
your fendish career at Harper's Ferry,
with the loss of your two sons. You can
now appreciate my distress in Kansas,
when you then and there entered my
house at midnight, and arrested my hus-
band and two boys, and took them out of
the yard, and, in cold blood, shot them
dead in my hearing. You cannot say you
did it to free our slaves-we had none,
and never expected to own one; but it has
with helpless children. While L feel for
your folly, do hope and trust you will
meet with just reward OH how it pain
ed my heart to hear the/dying groans of
my husband and ckildrenl If this scrawl
gives you any consolation, you are welcome
to it. MAHALA DOYLE.
N. B.-My son John Doyle, whose life
| begged of you, is now grown up, and is
very desirous to be at Charleston on the
day Of your execution. He would GER
tainly be there if his means would per-
NIT it, that he might adjust the rope
around your neck. M. d.
i "Three months after William Doyle
and his two sons were murdered, three
months after Sherman was murdered, his
skull acut open in two places, and the
3 lssFe d tad washed out Of his
cranium-three months after that, John
Browns son was killed at Ossawatomie.-
!, Then, what becomes of this excuse? Why
this apology for man like this9 Three
months after he had committed this iend-
ish act, his son lost his life at Ossawato-
mie. 1t was on that night, about II
| o'clock, as testified by Mrs. Doyle, as tes-
! tilted by her son, as testified by Mrs
Harris-these men, innocent, unofendine
men--were taken out, and in the midnight
hour, and in the forest, and on the road
| side, fell victims to the insatiate thirst OF
John Brown for blood. Then it was
that those murders were committed, thai
! he'll entered his heart, not the iron his
soul. Then it was that he shrank from
the dimensions of human being, into
f those of reptile. Then it was, if no
before, that he changed his character to 4
demon who had lost all the virtues of ;
man. And you talk about sympathy fol
Old John Browni
' "Jehn Brown stands before the country
] a murderer The enormity, the extraor-
, dinary ferociousness of the father set the
: son mad. The blood of these murdered
men-not unlike that Of sacrificed Abel
! cried even from the tongueless caverns OF
/ the earth to him for pity, and to Heaver
for justice; but his iron heart, not soul
, refused to yield, but Heaven, in the pro
{ cess of time, has meted out to him justice
on the gallows. Justice divine,t punisl
sin, moves slow; the slower its pace, thu
| surer is its blow. It will overtake US i
| livlng-it will overtake us if dead. Jus
gone to eternity with crimsoned hands
a with blood upon his head.
"But the Senator talks about the schoo
in which John Brown was taught. Why
A lsir, John Brown did not 90 to Kansas tt
60 to school. He went there as teacher
] on the 24th of May. AT the midhour o
t night, from the wife and the mother, h'
e dragged the husband and two sons, ant
d imbrued his hands in their blood Thest
!, were the doctrines that he went there t.
: teach. He did not go there to be taught
/, but he went there as teacher. Thes
: were his teachings. Imagine the cries ant
Ou ShS inv 'AiS "
d ing and mutilated on the other. thinl
IS sometimes that hear shrieks so loud, ST
long, SO wild, SO clear, that even listening
c angels stoop from Heaven to hear. Thi
d is the man for whom an apology is offer
e ed. did the Senator the justice to sa,
n that he disclaimed all sympathy Will
is Brown, and | read what, in fact was al
: apology. What furthermore did the Sen
i ator say? We have shown, and the fac
Y, is not controverted, that he murdered fv
d human beings on May "A. They hav
le shown, in trying to answer this, that hi
d son did not receive this i'll treatment from
1T Captain Pate until the last day of May
l. We have shown that his other son wa
rs not killed until August 80. Let us re
Is member these facts, and come to the oil
IN man as thief and murderer 1 wan
le all these modern fanatics, who have adop
ted John Brown and his gallows as thei
IN Christ and their cross, to see who thei
ID Christ is The Senator says again:
= "'I regret that gentlemen, in speakin