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sured repose ofsubsequent years. "

honor it."
Governor Henry A. Wise, of Vir.
GINA, said: "John Brown is a man Of
clear head, of courage, fortitude and
simple righteousness. He is cool, col
lected and indomitable, and it is but
just to him to say that he was humane
to his prisoners, apd he inspired me
with great trust in his integrity as
man of truth"
Governor John A. Andrew, of mas
sachusetts, said: "Whatever may be
thought of John Browns acts, John
Brown himself was right"
Governor Robinson, Of Kansas, said:
"The soul of John Brown was the in
spiration of the Uni IN armies in the
emancipation war, and it will be the
inspiration of all men in the present
and distant future who may revolt
against tyranny and oppression, be-
cause he dared to be q traitor to the
government that he might be loyal to
humanity. To the superficial observer
John Brown was a failure. So was
Jesus of Nazareth. Both suffered ig-
nominious death as traitors to the
government, vet one is hailed as the
Savior of the world from sin, and the
other of a race from bondage"
Hon ID. W. Wilder, the Kansas his
torian, in referring to John Browns
faith, said: "CommOn men live for
years in despair, with only ordinary
bad luck to contend with: but here is
mau absolutely alone, exiled from
family, among hostile strangers, where
barbarism is made popular by law and
by fashion, yet never in despair Why
this contrast? He believed in God
aud justice, and in nothing else; we
believe in everything else"
Victor Hugo, the distinguished
French philosopher and philanthropist,
who was few months ago gathered
to his fathers, said OH March 80, 1860:
"What the south slew last Deem
Der was not John Brown, but slavery.
Between the north and the south
stand the gallows of Brown. Union
is no longer possible; such a crime
cannot be shared"
In American political history there
shines out with the most resplendant
luster the names of George Washing
ton, Thomas Jefferson, John Quincy
Adams, John Brown, Abraham Lin
coin and Ulysses $ Grant. Washing
ton, by common consent, is called the
father of his country; Jefferson origin
atcd the proviso which forbade the
introduction of slavery into the north
west territory; John Quincy Adams
defended the right of petition, and
declared. in 1920, that "a life devoted
to the abolition of slavery would be
nobly spent or sacrificed" John
Brown, in the language of his biog-
rapher, twas inferior TO no man, in
this God-appointed, inflexible devo-
ton to his object in life. His renown
is secure, for he rose in fame far
above more gifted persons, because OF
his very fxedness and simplicity Of
character
The immortal, martyred President
Lincoln, in his second inaugural, said:
s'If God wills that this terrible war
continues until all the wealth piled by
the bondsman's two hundred and fifty
years of unrequited toll shall be sunk,
and until every drop of blood drawn
by the lash shall be paid by another
drawn by the sword, as was said three
thousand years ago, SO still must il be
said: The judgments of the Lord
are true and righteous altogether
Our lately departed Grant, whose
name almost stands "above all the
rest" three days after the attack Oh
ToTt SutupteT >diu'
''No impartial man can conceal from
himself the fact that in all these
troubles the southerners have been
the aggressors. and the administra-
ton has stood on the defensive-more
on the defensive than she would have
dared to have done but for her con-
seriousness of strength and the certain
ty of right prevailing in the end. The
news to-day is that Virginia has gone
out of the Union. But for the i'll
fluence she will have on the other bor-
der slave states this is not much to be
regretted. The position of eastern
Virginia has been more repreh ensible
from the beginning than that of
South Carolina In all this l can but
see the doom Of slavery, The north
does not want, nor will they want, to
interfere with the institution, but they
will refuse for all time to give it pro-
lection unless the south shall return to
their allegiance"
John Brown, the abolitionist, in his
last speech said: eff 1t is deemed
necessary that l should forfeit my
life in the furthearnce of the ends Of
justice, and sprinkle my blood further,
with the blood of my children ana
with the blood of millions in this
slave country, whose rights are disre-
garded by wicked, cruel and unjust
submit: so let it be
DONE"
He taught Us how to live, and ., how
high,
He taught us how a man, sincere, could
die.
Quite a large part of the document
airy portion of the life of John Brown
is devoted to the grand old martyrs
work in his effective work of throt-
Ting the enemies of freedom, who
sought to irrevocably fasten upon the
fair land Of Kansas the barbarous sys-
tenn of reinforced servitude, which made
a dignified civilization wonder and
weep more than quarter Of century
ago. That part of the work covers a
period of most inte resting Kansas
history from 1854 to about the dawn
ing of 1860, just antedating the tri-
umpL of the element that secured the
SUI ccess of William Pennington as
speaker of the American house of rep