The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-07-31

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pertinent would result in defeat. we al iooAeo u II d
nlling the hopes of many years. .h,
al never knew of his insanity until l read IL IN tue
newspauers. He is q clear-headed man. He mas always
been and now is entirely in his right mind. He is always
cool, deliberate, and never over-hasty. NO, d e rs ~ ~
as all his other acts have been. of his truest and strong
est conscientious convictions.
Browns last act before starting tor the
scaffold was to visit the cells OF his fellow
prisoners, giving to each a silver quarter
dollar, and warning them to die with sealed
lips in relation to their Northern conteder-
atcs. There was one eN~ceptlon-John T.
Cook-the spy, whose misleading reports
with respect to the willingness OF the slaves
to revolt, caused the tasco. Brown up
braided him In round terms, but Cook
turned away without reply.
M~ARTYRDOM.
The old. Javhawker went to his doom with
unnatural frmness. Viewing from the top
of the gallows, on the hill near Charleston,
the beautiful billowy country stretching
around him, IN the crisp December air, he
~fippantly remarked that he had meyer
before had the pleasure of seeing the tar
famed Virginia Valley" apparently un,
mindful of the mourning and death he had
brought to, a dozen Of the homes OF that
Valley, and the dismay and disturbance to
them all! Doubtless he was aware the
apotheosis Of Martyrdom was being at that
moment conferred upon him throughout all
the North. Such was the shameful fact.
Bells were tolling in an hundred cities and
congregations gathering to cOnsecrate the
day" Business houses were closed, and
doors draped with funeral black. At Albany,
100 minute guns were being fired. In the
Massachusetts Legislature sympathetic reso-
~lutions were adopted, and the Senate came
rr,+l,, throo r e a ro In foStI-
mony of Honor to John Brown, and respect
to the sacredness of the day. Immense
Mourning Meetings" were held in Phila-
delphia, Boston, New York, Bedford, and
many other cities, to weep for the "Hero
of Harper's Ferry" Ralph Waldo EN-
merson, whose writings are seen In some OF
our Southern school books, declared in his
fremont Temple Grafton that John Brown
was 1.-The Saint, whose martyrdom will
make the gallows as glorious as the Cross
A member Of the Massachusetts, Legislature
at huge mass meeting in Boston was wildly
applauded for saying, 1.-The crime Of Pom
thus Plate in hanging our Savior whitens
into virtue compared with Gov. Wise's
so-called preachers" INDUCED in the
loudest panegyrics of the outlaws, and open
ly commended their conduct as worthy of
emulation. One speaker in Or. Cheever's
church declared that 1900 Northerners could
whip the whole State of Virginia, and he
expected to live to see the day when it would
be done. The leading newspapers with a
very few exceptions expressed the l~iveliest
sympathy with the Raiders, coupled with
lily disguised threats of a coming day of re-
venge for their execution. Here and there
a voice was raised in warning of the folly
of this kind of talk that must surely drive
the South into disunion; but the majority
OF the North sided with the Abolitionists, as
was shown by the State elections viii n oc-
CURED a few weeks later. Edward Everett,
to his credit be it said, mde a bold grafton
IN Boston, wherein he drew a picture of the
horrors of the slave instructions in Hayti.
and In St. Domingo, and after pointing out
the lawless designs of Brown and his abet-
tors, added, '"when [ contemplate the
honors that would have ensued had the
tragedy upon which the curtain rose at
" Harper's Ferry, been acted out, through
all It's scenes of fire and sword, of lust
!" and murder, of rapine and desolation. to
the final catastrophe, [ am filled with emo
:. tons to which no words can do Justice"
I ct within twelve months later. Everett was
bowling, as lot as Wendell Phillips himself. |
IN favor OF a similar onslaught upon the
South!
HONEST JOHN PATTERSON.
Before proceeding to show how the Brown
raid p%reclpltates the war for Southern Lib
erty, | will mention a school boy incident
of the feeling among Northern
Republicans at the time. As before stated,
the old stone seminary on the brow Of the
overlooking Tuscarora Academy.
was rented as a residence by "Colonel' (of
militia John James Patterson, then a mem
Der OF the Pennsylvania Legislature. He
was born In JunIata Valley, at Waterloo,
aug. 3, 1890, and would have graduated at
) Jefferson College in ls4s, but for eltlin
escapades which led to his retirement
wlth9ut distinction. He began life by editing
the MIffiln SENTINEL, ard subsequently, the
Harris burg Telegraph. While at the can;7
tai ne displayed such talents for intrigue and
wlre-pulling, that the Republican
sent him back to Juniata county
to run for the LeniSlaturo R oOumy