Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-04-25
JOHN BROWN OF osAwAToM1B.

JOHN BROWN OF osAwAToMIB.
John Brown in Kansas settled, ike steadiast
Yankee farmer.
Brave and godly, with four sons, all stalwart men
of might.
There he spoke aloud for Freedom, and the border
strife grew warmer,
Till the rangers fred his dwelling in his absence,
in the night;
And old Brown,
Osawatomie Brown,
Came homewaFd in the morning to fud his mouse
burned down.
Then he grasped his trusty rifle, and boldly fought
Smote from border unto border the fl rec invading
And he and his brave boys vowed, so might heaven
help and speed EN-, tho
They would save those grand OLD pfdirles iIoh 1ne
curse that blights the land
And old Brown,
Osawatomie Brown,
Said Boys the Lord will aid u.s. ana ne showed
his ramrod down.
And the Lord did aid these men and they labored
Saving Kansas from its peril, and their very lives
seemed charmed,
Till the ruffans killed one son, in the blessed light
of heaven,
In cold blood the fellows slew him, as he jour
neyed all unsrmed.
Then old Brown,
Osawatomie Brown,
SIleu not q Tear, OuV 5iluI his bCSVhy al"
terrible frown.
Then they seized another brave boy, not amid the
heat of battle,
But in peace behind his plow-share, and they
loaded him with chains; ,
And with pixies before their horses even as 'ues
goad their cattle,
Drove him cruelty for their sport, anu aC 'as' o'e"
out his brains.
Then old Brown,
Osawatomie Brown,
o,.lY IN, haaya
vengeance down.
And he swore fearful oath, by the name OF the
Almighty,
He would hunt this ravenng evil that had scathed
and torn him so;
He would it by the vitals, he would crush 1t
day and night. he
Would so pursue its footsteps, so return 1t blow
That old Brown,
Osawatomie Brown,
Should be name to swear by, in backwOods or in
town.
Then mis- beard became more grizzed, and his wild
blue eyes grew wilder,
And more sharply curved his hawk'snose, snuff
ing battle from afar
Aud he and the two boys left, though the Kansas
strife waXed milder,
Grew more sullen, till was over the bloody Border
War.
And old Brown,
Osawatomie Brown
Had gone crazy, as they reckoned, by his fearful
glare and frown-
So he left the plains OF Kansas and their btterwoes
behind him,
Slipt off into Virginia, where the statesmen all
are born,
Hired a farm by Harper's Ferry, and none knew
where to find him,
Or whether he'd turaed parson, or was jacketed
and shorn;
For old Brown,
0sawdtomie Brown,
Mad as he was, knew texts enough to wear par
sons gown.
He bought no spades and harrows, spades and shov.
els, or such trifeS
But quietly to his rancho there came by every
train
Boxes full of pixies and pistols ard his wellbeloved
Sharp's rifles,
And eighteen other madmen joined their leader
then again.
Saws old Brown,
OSawatonie Brown,
Boys, we've got army large enough to march
and whip the town.
Take the town and seize the muskcts, free the ne
groes and then arm them,
Carry the county and the Sta'e, aye, aud all the
potent South;
On their own heads be the slaughter, if their vie
Tins rise to harm them,
These NirgniaUs who believed not nor would
heed the warning mouth.
Says old Brown,
Osawatomie Brown:
g The world shall see republic or my name IS not
John Brown"
Twas the sixteenth OF October the evening of
Sunday
Z" This good work, declared the captain as shall be
on holy night :"
1t was sunday evening, and before the noon of
Monday,
With two sons and Capt lin Stephens, fifteen pri-
Yates, black and white,
Captain Brown,
0saw Itomie Brown,
Marched across the bridged Potomac, and knocked
the sent. y down.
Took the guarded armory building, and the muskets
and the cannon;
Captured all the county Majors, and the Colonies,
one by one
Scared TO death each gallant scion OF Virginia they
And before the noon of Monday, say, the deed
was done.
Mad old Brown,
OsawatonIe Brown,
With his eighteen other crazy went in and took
the town.
Very little noise and buster little smell Of powder
made he
1t was all done in the midnight, like the Empe.
rurS coup det t,
O Cut the wire step he rail cars hold the streets
and bridges, said he,
Then declared the new republic, with himself for
guiding star,
This old Brown,
Usawatomie Brown,
And the D0d Two thousand cltlZeLS ran on ana lett
the town.
Then was riding, and raj'toadrg, aud expressing
here and thither;
And the hartinsburg Sharpshootcrs, and the
Charlestown Volunteers,
And the Shepherlstown and Winchester militia
hastencd whittier
Old Brown was said to muster his ten thousand
grenadiers
General Brown,
Osawatomie Brown,
Behind whose rampant banner all the North was
pouring do*n.
But at last lis said, some persons, escaped IRON
old Browns dUrancc,
And the effGFvcscent ya'or of the chivalry broke
out,
When they harmed that nineteen madmen had the
marvellous assurance,
Only nineteen thus to eize the place, and drive
them straight about.
And Old Brown,
Osawatomie Brown,
Found an army come to take him, encamped around
the town.
But to storm with all the forces have mentioned
was too risky
So they hurried of to Richmond for the Govern
ment m1Tlucs-
Tore them from their weeping mstrons, fired their
souls with Bourbon whisky,
TIL they battered down L, owns castle, with their
ladders and machines,
Aud cd Brown,
Osawatomie Brown,
Received three bayonet stabs and cut on his brave
old crown.
Tallybo! the Old Y rgipa gentry gather to the
baJing