New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-09-18
John BROWNS COMRADES
RICHARD J. HINTON TELLS WHO THEY
WE'RE AND WHAT THEY DID.
THE NgN VIM yDrfOwED BROWN 70 HAIR
yyr.s yyrgY 1vD WHOSE BODIES
Vxtg iAfD EY Hfs At NORTH
KLtA LlsT ArGrsT

yfrrpls f.sff Da'ifflc CEREMONY. unique now
.ser. ~ rhara,'er. anH "n9>r~d zlth me dignity
hat belongs ~ ne gfesfeF memories n people
The I.f.er asD.fsfDns = ne human race. u
vas me hsrlal - re bo1ier ~ John Browns
corrrales by ne ride ~ iner leaier All the
world bows - eoprags AL h.siory nonors i1s
heroes In the tnn,gh' csys such men were
hailed a. gods The Dones = ten young men,
slain In the hottest - iDsgrgent fighting or
hanged upon the scsHoid under due process or
forms II law. we're laid away ~ the grave q
their grim s,eadfast leader and that - one %
his sons who feN In his cause and virtually 81
his orders.
Forty years since lacking forty-three days.
this land vas startled by an az apparently the
most lawless taken IS whole. that had ever
beea perpetraied within its borders. II was an
act Of war upon and within th@ borders % one
= the great states - the American Union. IL
was nore-f0r it declared var upon an econom-
&c. social and political system which held over
100000 human beings chatte.s and property
valued at $4UDonoD1. Jet represented IN Con-
gress ny eighteen members q the House. and az
the time practically controlling the affairs o.
fifteen pow erful states and 10 all intents also
the National pocy and purposes. rs chosen
leaders sat in the seats u the mighty.
THE TWENTY-FIVE INsu RGENIs
There were only twenty-five men in the in
surgent party The leader John Brown. "as
IN his s.xi!e,h year. farmer. tanner surveyor.
wool merchant. quiet. spartan. yet kindly
man holding d stern creed. "orsh.pping God
the Judg-. re'eFing he saviour renewing ne
Bible and accepting aS IL p'"'',a' ."'"'
lion IN The br.alest sense tn~ D~'.a'e''N .'
independence Th~fe were in'~- OF Ns s'"'
and TWO brothers related hy marriage IN N"
parry the Oldest ihlriy-sN anu ih- y~IAses'
twenty-on- AL nv "er- t.!.ers - the SOIL
graduate only II tn district senoolHohse. rive
q thu remaining sixteen were q the en4t'e!
race. two We're born fre~mer' ana 'n-y were
skilled artisans three We're fugitive slaves. .F-
Ing IL The North under a egsl ran. and earning
bread and ealcation y Whatsoever humble pata
was then open . such A. they The eleven
remaining were al young. Oil unknown and a.
without means. thu Oldest not Set thirty the
Youngest d few weeks beyond twenty
The. Was not a stain = Qers ma disnonor
,r.n -t.tr lives or names Tru4 one man had
l4en condemned e. death iy q military tribunal
for striking superior INK he 81 hat n
righteous anger o. witnessing = sross and
cs,,s.lsss at u cruelty toward comraie and
his fellow soldiers among the Regulars helped
him o. escape. one other was accused = saoot-
.rg a man known as kidnapp-r and murderer
when his own life vas IN peril. and ~nen a~
had been oy-rthrown ly a mob = Qro-s.ayery
invaders " Kansas y man among them held
social power " had other means inan moss
labor produced
OUTSIDE CONTRIBUTORS FEW
C,,sid- -. snail range z This band there were
not o.e- twenty persons in the land WI, were
really co.. gnzant 4 the leaders purposes Not
more than fye men ani women contributed et-
teCtuaNy by their means, indeed meet % max
sort = AID was given by three persons-Georse
Luther Stearns his Wiz Nary +. Stearns 'siiE
living and Gerrit Smith. Others gave spar
ingly % their moderate purses. but me hrss
two spent Knowingly and unsrarngiy; the third
literally bCt without actually knowing ina
direct point Z appi cation ana attack
The bones IelnieEisc on Aue1s o. represent
the remains q nine white men whose ages ran
from tweniy-one 70 Twenty-Five ears ana ono
freeman OF color "no vas aoout 'hr'y-h's
az me time q MS cam \ NJ '-aa
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