The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-05-07

aay psecsfzi sointioa a. gigantic soeial
ssii thas Henry Csay and Lznccsn 18th
wished 70 solve By psacsfni emsndps-
ton: N svfl that. rudssy solved b. tAs
hand Of vss. stiil darksns ths Political shy
II the South.
In our iudemsns John Brown had no
moss eject upos the sans soiutkon u ~
snfs-ssavery struggle than the nssassna-
ton Of Aaras BY Chax5osts cosdAy I'D
spou IL Frsnch revolution. Ins dsssh
~ Aas1s only made matters worse. -
made Ignorant. cruel. eosardly Pasis still
nsss esusI, for nobody 10 70 crnsi - .
coward who Il frighssnsA and safneed;
nd - u rs wiki The Joha Brown raid, it
was ssnsszess and indeSsusible IN 10
Dsshods, sad rather heipsd than hurt the
pso-slavssy cause
IL - a episode: e vas man vsntuf-
Ing where no sane man would tread: IL
did the Republics party 10 good and the
pro-slsvesy psFty no harm Il vas like
the bullet Of Booth that slew Lincoln: IL
wss IN indefensibls ses that greatly ia-
jared the South. whose cause IL wss In
sssdsd 70 help.
In the current number Of the kes Eng
lss1 1sessiss ere printed sorss interest
ing ssminiscsness Of John Browns career
- wool merchant IN Springfield. MasA,
whore he settled In 16t6 He was IN Cd
mirable judge Of wool. buts poor and care
les business man: he refused IN o6es Of %
cents pound for 1000 pounds Of wool
In 1888, shipped it abroad and finally sold
IL for 30 csnss . pound, losing $4,000 ex-
elusive Of freight charges to England and
rssurn. . loss purely che rssult o. Browns
obstinacy. With this wreck Brown retired
from the financial world forsvsr and from
Springfield - . citizen, retiring 70 his
Adirondack hsunts. and coming forth only
~ his anti-slavsry business called him.
In 1851. eight years before his death,
Brown. in his words Of advice 70 "ths
Gtisaditss." IN organization formed TO
resist Law. no matter By what authority Il
should b. enforced. says:
Let no able-bodied msn appear on the
ground unequippsd, or with his weapons
exposed 10 view; let that b. understood
beforehand. Your plans must b kaown
only TO yourself. snd with the understand
Ing that all traitors must die. uhenever
ever IL fearful or afrsid. let him return and
part early from Mount 0ilsad. Judges.
Wis: Deuf., ks"
Ihess are the words OF an anachist Of
the Malta type.
In Kansas Brown shot prisoners 10 death
In cold blood and all through his career he
seems TO have been . parrow minded man
who undertook to square his conduct to
the literal Interpretation Of texts Of Scrip
turs. Just ~ there have been sincere Nor
mons who defended their practice Of polyg-
amy from the the Old Testament - ''highsr
law" than the United States statutes.
SINGS Browns day Bob Sims, in Ala
hama persisted with his whole family In
an attempt 10 execute anarchism which
WAS his religion - he read In 1t his Bible
and preached it on Sunday; and on the
2s.h, ult. the last Of gang OF sociaiistio
outlaws was killed in Alabama. These
men. Sims and Jordan, were religious"
like John Brown; that II, they made the
Bible their higher Law In human Affairs;
they were cranks, homicidal iunatics,
men Of unarrangsd IL not Damaged minds,
who ridiculsd the property laws and
taught that their more fortunate neigh
bors should b made to divide with them.
John Brown Vas . crank who was an
antstyps Of the modern snarchists in
America who repudiats all allegiance TO
human Law and interpret divine Law to suit
themsaiyea