Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1865-07-01

"Mrs. Doyle wrote o letter to John
Brown during his Imprisonment, showing
hat she still regarded him as the mur-
lerer of her husband and children: I
"CuArrAsooaA, Tenn, Nov. 80 1850 I
Jous BRows-sir: Although vengeance Is not
nine confess that do feel grahed 10 near Una. you
were stopped ~ your nena,sn .or, Won can now
appreciate my distress in Kansas when you tnen au
there entered my house at midnight, anu stfeses g
husband and two boys and took them out OF the yero,
and in cold blood shot them dead In my hearing. lou
cannot say you did 1t TO free our slaves we nau none
and never expected to own one but has only rsue
me poor discon solatc widow, with helpless chill.
den While feel for yerr follyi do hope and uest
YOU will meet with Just reward Oh, how IL panied
my heart to hear the dying groans Of my husband and
children IL this scrawr gives you any eons9,ws9n wp
you are welcome 10 IT, "mhhAbh oOfhe'
IN B.-My son. John Doyle, whose life btggea OF
charleston on ths day of your execution he would
certainly be there if his means would permit y: ona.
he mi ght Just the rope around your heck' u wv
ernor WISE would permit. h' "
"Three months after VIM. Doyle and
his two sons were murdered, three months
after Sherman was murdered, his skull cut
open in two places, and the stream had
washed the blood out of his Uranium
three months after that, John Browns
son was killed at Ossawatomie. Then,
what becomes Of this excuse I Why this
apology for q man like this Three
months after he had committed this fen-
dish act, his son lost his life al the battle
Of Ossawatomie. 1t was on that night,
about II o'clock, as testified py Mrs.
Doyle, as testified by her son, as testified
by Mr.. Harris-,bese men, innocent, uu-
offending men--were taken out, and in
the midnight hour, and in the forest, and
on the road side, fell victims to the insa-
,iate thirs, of John Brown for blood
Then it was that those murders were
committed, that hell entered his heart, no.
the iron his soul. Then it was that be
shrank from the Dimensions of human
being, into those OF reptile. Then il
was, if not before, that he changed bis
character to a demon who b ad lost all the
virtues of man. And you talk about
sympathy for John Brown!
"John Brown stands before the coun.
try a murderer. The enormity, the ex-
traordinary ferociousness of Il father Sc,
the son mad. The blood Of these mur
dered men--not unlike that of sacrificed
Abel-cri even from the tongueless cav
erns of the earth to him for pity, and tc
Heaven for justice but his iron hear.
not soul, refused to yield ; but Heaven
in the process of time, has meted out to
him justice on the gallows. Justice divine
| to punish sin moves slow--the slower its
pace, the surer is its blow. 1t will over.
take US if liviDg---it will overtake US il
dead. Justice has overtaken its victim
and be has gone to eternity with crimsoned
hands, With blood upon bis head
"But the Senator talks about the schoo
in which John Brown was taught. Why
sir, John Brown, according TO his own
confession, had entertained these ideas for
twenty years. John Brown did not 20 to
Kansas to 90 to school. lie went there
as teacher on the 24lh May. At the
midhour OF night, from the wife and the
mother, he dragged the husband and two
sons, and imbrued his hands in their blood
These were the doctlines that he went
there to teach. He did not 20 there to
be taught but he went there as a teach.
er These we're his teachings. Imagine
the cries and lamentations on the one
hand, and the shreks Of the dying and
matilated on the other. | think some
times tina. hear shrieks, SO loud, so wild
so clear, that even listening angels stoop
from heaven to hear. This is the man
for whom an apology is offered. did the
Senator the justice to say that he disclaim
ed all sympathy with Brown, and yet
read what, in fact, was an apology. What
furthermore did the Senator say We
have shown, and the fact is not con,royer.
ted, that he murdered Eve human beings
on May Gath. They have shown, in try
ing to answer this, that his son did NOT re-.
ceive this ill-trcatment from Captain Tate
until the last day of May. We have
shown that his other son was not killed
until August 3Oth. Let us remember
these facts, and come to the old man as
being thief and murderer l want sll
these modern fanatics, who lave adopted
John Brown and his gallows as their
Christ and their cross, to see who their
Christ is. The Senator says again :,
81 regret that gentleman in speaking of this man
Brown, should be pleased to speak Of him as Yobber
or thief or vagabond, in the ordinary sense of the
TERM SIR, Is of the essen ce of robbery md then
mat the robber or thief who robs steals should act
from The desire of gain Certainly such charge can
Oe made against this man, as that he was actuated
wth the us. OF gain. Tie acted from far different mo-
yes lie sought TO give liberty to the enslayed and
laa down ms life for that pnrposeeeIy and bravely
THAT is, you may steal and commit
theft if you do it to aid in the cause of the
abolition of slavery. Have we any proof
th at this Ia an What doas Mrs uy:Ii-: