Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1867-08-27


the humane everywhere. Possessed of re-
deeming traits and da~aiDg qualities, he has
exerted the formerSs Ie ameliOratiOn of his
own and the negro race and the kan for the
overthrow of social order aud domestic gov
ernment, until his efforts and those of his
aiders and abetters haJ e brought destruction
and ruin upon the country aud the race
whose |itiSHIi ought to improve. This
CO.. Generated contradictions
letter setting forth an
view to exculPate himself
DdcipatiOn in the invasion of
which led to the happy "taking
old gallOw's bird. We have not
entire letter, and therefore con-
with making the following ex-
bic that John Brown will
persOn in American his
eon worked well-but it was
e-only for his equals VIII:
arrison has lived for despised
race. John Brown both lived
{; and few names, even in the
will stand as high as his
ask why monument to the
Brown has not yet been built
ding John Browns monu-
h pine. !. 1t will be built where
g saGif it would not yet be
the Its base will be broad, and
viii pierce the skies. But the ap-
OF his sublime character is not vet
y just and wide spread to call for
ing OF such structure. In executing
work of love and admiration, Southern
DIS will join with Northern hands.
e have no doubt that John Brown will
traVagautly admired, but we have reason
pc that this admiration will not extend
tOeyond that class OF lunatics of which Smith
Is faithful representative The comparison
OF John ~ TO George Washington, is
about as apI as would be the compar-
ison of Jud blot to the Apostle Paul.
VIM. Lloyd Harrison and John Brown may
justly be connected in the same paragraph.
but it is sacrilegious to place Washington in
the same connection.
We have not heard the inquiries why
monument to TIE memory of John Brown
has not yet been built, which Mr.. Smith SAYS
men begin to ask We rather think the ques
ton has not been propounded in this vicinity.
and we doubt whether Mr.. Smiths imagina-
ton has not been deceiving him upon this
point; and yet such n 4ribute would be less
inappropriate than the court that has been
paid to other murderers and thieves who were
too cOwardly to support Brown when he inau-
gurated his plundering expedition against the
Peaceab!e inhabitants of this county. John
Brown, the forerunner, was better man than
hundreds who followed few years after, and
who erected their own monuments in the de.
vastated homes and lone chimneys which
greet the eye from Harper's Ferry to Staun,
ton These house burners, horse-thieves, and
war-icensed assassius have received the hon.
age OF the Northern people, and it is quite as
appropriate that they should embalm the
memory Of John Brown, their first martyr.
If the Kansas investigation proved Brown to
be brute, a fend in human shape, who
Knocked at the calamity Of his helpless vic
tins, the war demonstrated his successors TO
be devils incarnatc-emisSaries of hell mani
fest in the flesh. \ people who can defy a
beast such as Butlcr-reward the cotton steal.
ing Of thief such as Banks-and appIaud
the usurpatiOns of tyrant such as Sheridan.
ought not to scruplc at the proposition to
build monument whose ''base will be broad
and its shaft will pierce the skies" to COM
memorate the selfsacrifce Of the man who
led the vanguard of tie abolition crusade.
and gave hell-born distinction to their pres.
ent repositories of corruption and iniouity.
As to the locality selected for the rearing
of this monument. We agree with Mr.,
Smith that it would not yet be welcome on
the spot where his gallows stood, nor are the
Peep! greatly inclined to prepare themselves
for the erection in their midst of such a trib-
ute to the old murderer who was here over.
taken by justice after a long life of infamv
and dishonor. We rather calculate that Mr..
Smith had better fx upon some other locali-
ty to lay his base, upon which to erect his
sky-asPiring shaft.
ESy- The WASHINGTON corrssr,,J,,t c.l