The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1865-07-06

NOT mine, Confess that do feel grstIneo 20 neaI
that you were stopped in your 6sndish career At
Harper,s Ferfy, with the loss of your two sons
Yes can now appreciate ~ distress e KAMA,
when you then and there entered ny hose At mid.
night, and arrested my husband and Two boys ana
toot the m out 10 the yard, and in cold blood shot
them dead in my hearing. You cannot say You
did II 70 free orr sIaves-we had none, and never
sxpscted 70 own one; 3. but il has only made me =
poor disconsolate widow with helpless children.
while feel for your folly, 4 do hope and trust
YOU will meet with = just reward. Oh, how it pain
ed my heart to hear the dying groans OF my hus-
band and children If this scrawi gives you any
consolation you are welcome to it.
MAHALA DOYLE.
sN. B-My son, John Doyle, whose life beg
ged OF you, is now grown up, and is very desir
Gus to b. at Charleston on the day of your execu.
ton; he would certainly be there if has n cans
would permit, that he might adjust The rope
around your neck ifGov. WISE would permit.
NJ. D."
.sThres months after William Doyle and
his two sons wero murdered, three months
after Sherman was murdered, his skull cut
open IN two places,and the stream had wash-
cd the blood out of his craniun-three
months after that, John Browns son was
killed at Ossawatomie. Then, what becomes
of this excused Why this apology for man
like this? Three months after he had com
mitted this fendish act, his son lost his life
at the battle of Ossawatomi. 1t WAS on that
night, about III o'olock, as testified by Mrs,
Doyle. as testified by her SON, as testified by
Mr.. Hsrris--these men, innocent, unotfend-
ing men-were taken out, and in the mid
night hour, and IN the forest, and on the
road side, fell victims to the iasatiate thirst
of John Brown for blood. Then it was that
those murders were committed, that hell en-
tered his heart. not the iron his soul. Then
it was that he shrank from the dimensions of
49, hal s1tn hos nfo Thap
it was, if not before thai, he changed his char
acter 70 demon who had lost all abe virtues
of man. And you talk about sympathy for
John Brown!
John Brown stands before the country q
murderer. The enormity. the extraordinary
righteousness of the father set the SON mad.
The blood OF these murdered men-not IN
like that of the sacrificed Abel-cried even
from the tongueIess caverns of the earth to
him for pity, and to heaven for Justice, but
his iron heart, not soul, refused to yield !;
but heaven, in the process of tine, has melted
out 90 him justice the gallows. Justice
divine to punish sin moves slow-the slower
the space the surer the blow. liz will over.
take us if liviug-it will overtake US if dead.
Justice has ovsrtaken it's victim. and he has
gone 60 eternity with crimsoned hands, with
blood upon his head.
'.But the senator talks about the school in
which John Brown was taught. Why. sir,
John Brown, according to his own confession.
had entertained these ideas'ior twenty years.
John Brown did not 60 TO Kansas to go to
school. He went there as q teacher on the
24sh of May. At the mid hour Of night, from
che wife and mother he dragged the husband
and two som, and imbrued his hands 10 their
blood. These were the doctrines that he
went there 20 teach. He did NOT go there to
be taught; but he went there as a teacher.
These were his teachings. Imagine the cries
and lamentations ON the one nsnd. and the
shrieks of the dying and mutilated on the
other. | think sometines tina, hear shriek.
so loud, SO clear, that even listening angela
stoop from heaven TO hear. This is the man
for whom an apology ~ offered. did the
senator thelustice to say that he disclaimed all
sympathy with Brown, and vet read what,
in fact, was an apology. Whist furthermore
lid the senator say? We have shown, aud
the fact Is not controyer,ed, that he murder
ed five human beings on May Oath. They
have shown, In trying to answer this. that
his son did not receive this i'll treatment
rom Cap. Pa,e until the lsst day of Nav
We have shown that his osher son was not
killed until August Both. Let US remember
hese facts, and come to the old man rs be-
ng thief and murderer want all these
nodern fanatics. VINO have adopted John
5rown an his galiows their Christ and
heir cross, To see who their Christ IT, The
enator says again:
Il regret that gentlemen. in speaking of
his man, Brown, should be pleased TO speak
i hum rs a robber, or thief or a vagabond,
n the ordinary sense OF the term Sir, il
S of the essence of robbery and theft who
obs or steals should act from the desire of
AIN. Certainly no such charge can be made
gainst this man. az that he was actuated
nth the lust of gain. lie acted from far diff |
erent motives He sought to give liberty to |
he enslsved, and laid down his life for that |
urppse freely and bravely did no do it.
That is you may steal and commit theft |
yon do IL to aid 10 the causo of the aboIi- /
ion Of slavery. Have we any proof that this /
) So? What does Mrs Wilkinson say in
or affidavit? When John Brown and his /
omrades were there on the Oath, when they
,nk Wilkinson out and murdered him, lust
et"re they left they took his property and
is only horse. / suppose they needed the
orse TO aid in emancipation of slasesl Horse
sealing is carried on TO great extent some
mes IN a frontier country. Mrs. Doyle states
lat they inquired where their horse was.
~. ."id 1t was out on the prairie
hat took place at Hsrper'- FerryY They
ok Col WashiDgton's silver and his watch.
hat does he admit in his own confession ?
hat he. during the last winter, had stolen.
I'd kidnapped and run of eteven slaves from
e state of Missouri to Kansas. That is not
ealing. though; / suppose that is not theft,
at is not robbery; aud we Ought not to
Tx about this Old man rs stealing in the
mmon acceptation of the term? What J
1t, ask the country, I
K the senate, if it ia not stealing, robbery.
ghway robbery And yet these things are
rown out, perhaps not intended, but thew
operate as an apology and excuse in the
nds OF many. for the intany, the murders.
: thieving, the treacherous conduct of this q
man Brown, who was nothing mure than