Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-09-05

Brown Monument at Ossawatomie,
Kansas, on Thursday, Senator Ingalls,
delivered mastery Grafton. We
make the following extracts: Ii
John Brown said: Il can trust God
with both the time and manner Of my
death, believing, as now do, that for
me at this time to seal my testimony
for God and humanity with my blood,
will do vastly more towards advanc-
ing the cause have earnestly endeav-
ored to promote than all have done
in my life before.
81 feel just as content to die for
Gods Eternal Truth, and for suffering
on the scaffold rs in any
other way.
think l cannot now better serve
the cause l love so much than to die
for it, and in my death may do more
than in my life.
l do not believe l shall deny my
Lord and Master Jesus Christ, and 1
should if deny my principles against
slavery
What immortal and dauntless cour-
age breathes in this procession of
stately sentences; what fortitude !;
what patience what faith what radi-
ant and eternal hope? Over his soul
lowered the covenant of peace. He
felt the loftiest consciousness of
''Deetls that Were royal in land beyond kings
scepters'
He trod the scafiold with the step
of a conqueror, and the man whom
Virginia executed as a felon, Kansas
to-day canonizes as martyr.
He believed there was no acquisi-
ton SO splendid as moral purity no
possession nor inheritance so desira-
bic as personal liberty; nothing on
this earth nor in the world to come
SO valuable as the soul, whatever be
the hue of its bodily habitation; no
impulse so lofty and heroic as an I'M
conquerable love of truth, and an in
| vincible determination to obey God.
Already those who were considered
the great intellectual leaders in this
opinion in this crusade are dead. /
was presiding over the Senate when
Sumner left the chamber for the last
time in life, and l saw his remains
borne from the Capitol, which had
been the scene of his labors for near
lily quarter of a century. was with
tVice President Wilson the day before
he died, and witnessed the unparal-
leled display that attended the funeral
cortege as it moved through New
York City on its way to his last rest
: ing place in Massachusetts. / wit
. messed the administration of the
second oath of Office to President
Grant by Chief Justice Chase, then a
broken and disconsolate old man, just
lingering on the verge of dissolution.
They are almost forgotten. Their
names are no longer on the tongues
of men. Their speeches have died out
, of popular remembrance. Seward
: yet lives by fortunate phrase-''the
: irrepressible conflict,"-which was
not his own, except rs an adopted
founding.
The student Of the future will ex.
hume their orations and arguments
and State papers, as part of the sub
lterranean history of the epoch. TIT
: antiquarian will dig up their remainl
from the alluvial drift of tie periot
p, and construe their relations to thu
: great events in which they were act
ors but the three men who will loon
forever against the horizon of time al
] the representative, conspicuous type
4 of this era, like the pyramids abov,
! the desert. or mountain peaks above
= the subordinate plains. are
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, U. S. GRANT, AM
OLD JOHN BROWN,
, of Ossawatomie and am not sur,
that the last will not be first. He ha
e a prodigious grip upon the public i'm
q agination. His example is beddet
o deep in the general conscience. Their
are more men in America to-day VIII
can sing the "John Brown" song thai
q any other hymn, unless it may be tn,
: long meter "Old Hundred" doxology
: 1t is an immortal strain, and stirs thu
soul like the solemn diapason of al
an organ in the freited vaults of ca
thedral.
vt Seven years ago the mission o
"a John Brown seemed to have been full
ly accomplished. The Declaration
:, Of Independence was no longer lie
II Slavery was destroyed, and its fur
Their existence inhibited by constitu
tional enactment. The freedmen, by
their sobriety, their obedience to law
:, their decorous demeanor, justified thu
IS temerity of those who had dared t.
: maintain that they possessed intelli
gence superior to beasts, and soul!
that We're immortal. During centu
ries of brutal and degrading bondage
It they had retained the typical charac
a teristics of their race. Their virtues
were their own; their vices were thu
offspring of the cruel system of which
u they had been the reluctant victims
They began to acquire homes an.
Y property. They fillod savings bank
u with their earnings. They assume,
= definite domestic relations. The,
II gathered about the schoolmaster ant
eagerly studied the alphabet, tn
primer, the Bible.
10 The autonomy of the States hat
g been restored. The pestilent heres,
of State sovereignty had been recant
." ed, and in its place appeared the tru'
l. gospel of American nationality.
e., But all great moral movement
e have their oscillations. They reacl
n eliminating point as q pendulum
moves to the end of its arc, and thel
Z with constantly increasing velocit,
10 and momentum they sweep down tn
le curve on the inevitable return from
J. their remotest excursion. For tn
past seven years the path of the natiol
10 has been downward. If either o
's the amendments were submitted I,
}, the States to-day do not believe tina
= one of them could receive the numbe
of votes necessary for ratification.
1t has become unpopular to speal
of disloyalty and treason. The scar
u and uniform of the Union soldier ar
l. badges of dishonor and passports I,
II contumely in many Of the States.
A school of political pigmies whom
!, Providence for some inscrutable pur
Il pose has placed in power, are endeav
g oring to pacify the country by de
= bauching its convictions by asserting
= that those who sought to overthrow
h and destroy the government are NOR
entitled to its favors than those VIII
SO sacrificed all to uphold it; by al
% tempting to obliterate the distinction
o. between right and wrong, and to re
q peal the laws of God. They ar
h seeking to put the new wine of 1877
10 into the old bottles of 1860, with tn
:, probability of the ultimate loss G
=" both receptacles and contents.
'e Reinforced by these perfidious a
o lies under the delusive banners q
# peace, harmony, and reconciliation
!, the vanquished enemies of the natio
" have been steadily and relentlessl
II pursuing their purposes to regal
It what they lost. They have falsified e,
Y cry pledge by which they secured thei
:. political restoration. They promise
= that education should be universe
;. but they refuse appropriations for tn
support of schools, burn school-houl
!. es, expel the teachers and discharg
# the professors in their universitie
a who believed in the preservation {
9 the Union. They promised that SUI
s frage should be protected, freedoI
- of speech and opinion maintained
~ equal rights enforced, and justice In
ID partially administered. How thes
~ solemn covenants have been observe
r. we Know too well, Under the shell
ering pretext OF the sovereignty Of til
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