The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1886-11-18
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LIE for Oasse.
[ PROM Geurge Alifsd Togrssni's sKEty Of Caioc-
tin-n
The perfect daylight revealed him
now, tired after the nights eXertiOns.
I why, with one eve preoreupled and
the other Ike q fsheF-bird's, the nose
vuliufous, snd the mouth ~ hard ~
{ intense opiniunatedness aud severe
reflection could make it 10 man.
He bad bis arms beneath his old
coat-tails. aud his cap concealed there,
aud his unkempt hair famed up Ike
a beacon IN ashes; and the fleece OF
! gray and white beard made q blossom
like a snow ball 30 his breast-bone.
without an ornament but the dress
swordhilt Of a king-nO seals, no
watch. no Nsteh-gnard, not even q
pistol noW-John Brown seemed ter
rible by bis simplicity and indiffer-
ence. UneonstTained, natural. yet
Wild not teniirely sane Ia the ex-
preston OF his eyes: deliberate but
unfeeling, ready 10 become domestic
or dreaded, like a house-cat o. take q
tit, be measured them all "a IL he was
ransoming sheep.
All felt that he could toss them
back like lambs to their pens IL they
sought 10 assail or evade him. His
whole dress q slOp-shOp might have
rejected f; but the stringy frame with
Ia b.. and lean, bushy head, at once
palriaFehal aud animal, gave him a
sense Of some
CALVANIsTIC WOLF
a savage qualified by theology.
Ii might have been possible to
treat John Browns raid as without
full moral accountability, and thus 10
have renanded Il, by the contempt Of
Justice, TO the silence Of q lunatic asy-
lum +; but the politician at the head of
Virginia became the instrument 10
connect this little affair With the
mightiest revolution Of the age.
Governor Wise summoned the niiii-
tary Of Virginia 10 arms upon the be-
lief or pretense that Browns was
only q portion Ofa general insurrec-
ton and abolition invasion, and the
little court house place OF Charleston
became for five menths a garFisOned
spot during the trials and executions
OF Brown and his survivors, while the
example Of Virginia led 10 the arm
ing Of every slave State, aud thence
proceeded the fermentation OF the
scheme OF a separated republic to as
sure the safety of slavery.
Short hsd been his shrift-tried I'm
seven days, Sentenced in six days
more, executed in another month
not seven weeks In all but IN that |
time he rounded life with the aecura-
ey and completeness Of q comet pre- |
dicted and fulfilled. His fOOlishness |
ended at his taking, aEd his greatness
began In his failure. The letters he |
the speeches he made in
court, his consistency aud simplicity, /
had a moral Influence feebly preiig- |
ured by the reckless Samson pulling !
the heather temple down. OF Sam. !
son had remained only strength of
Brown, no strength, only testimony.
The abolitiOnist-thRt unseen terror |
had at last been captured aud dis |
played in the slave States, and prOba- |
bly, the only perfect specimen. Near
~ every one Of the same genius vino !
from the responsibility and left him |
on the enemy's side,a deadly hostage,
SUBTLE AS WISDOM ITSELF.
IL was a privilege to see him die, |
beyond the death Of any man yet |
known In America who had chosen |
the gallOws for his death-bed. Some |
who had looked into his genealOgy |
thought they saw In his face and |
works signs of all the races that were !
united i'm him: English, Puritan, HOl- |
land, Dutehman, Welsh, the stocks |
Ct Hampden, De Ruyter and Jeffer-
son.
He climbed the sealfold frst, shook /
off his hat, thanked for favOrs, and |
over his kindly smile the death-cap |
was drawn.
II caB'tsee, gentlemen. You must |
lead me,h the mufiiled voice petition |
sd--to be led to the death-irap.
He did not desire publicly TO speak, !
though IL had been forbidden. The |
only inhumanity he suffered was the |
delay Of the militia, who were made /
Ia march, eOuutermarch, face out |
ward and inward, and repel an in |
visible attack. There was one side of |
the hollow square left open, where |
the sun was shining overhead.
81 am ready at any time," was ex-
LOrted from his lips at last "dO not |
keep the waiting!n
The scafiold trap then opened be- |
meath his feet, like the wicket OF |
heaven on golden hinges turning,and 4
al that was giraffe in the old mans 1
life Strengthened on the silver cord |
that let him down into the bosom OF /
he valley,
In after years the armies there faced |
every way to Tepel insidiOus Liberty /
seeking 10 come in. but it was let 4
Town from a side they had not
thought To guard.