Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-17
.DR. Jones ON
JOHN BROWN
Baptist Pastor Delights a Large
Audience Of Revolutionary
Daughters by Lecture
BOTH CHAPTERS HEAR HIM
Most Entertaining Lecture Given at
Library Auditorium Thursday After.
noon - Events of Ante. seIlum pays
sketched in Interesting Manner -
Civil War Followed Browns Acts.

Before a large gathering OF the
Daughters OF the American Revolution,
of both the Spinning Wheel and Mar
shaHtown chapters, Rev. Elijah Brown
Jones, d. D., pastor Of the First Bap-
fist church of this city, delivered his
most entertaining historical lecture
on John Brown" at the library audi
forum Thursday afternoon. The pro.
gram was opened by two Charming
piano numbers by Miss Margaret Pat
ton, of Laurel, who responded to an
encore. Mrs. Harry McCombs gave !,
vocal selection In her characteristic,
pleasing way, and also sang again In
response to the hearty applause.
Dr. Jones. upon being introduced to
his audience, opened by sketching in a
general way the events OF ante -bellum
days.
Great questions and problems" he
said, make great men. There were
giants In the land in those days. That
was the period when American Knight
hood was in flower. The genius OF
John G. Calhoun was the greatest Offer
ing the dogan of African slavery ever
demanded for It's affairs Daniel Web
ster deserved we'll of his country. He
was the greatest gift Of Almighty God
TO this republic. When he died Mr..
Lincoln was Al years OF age. You see
him the hardy sfrontiersman, mauling
rails on the banks of the Sangamon,
and later the statesman, mauling the
life out OF slavery on the banks of the
Potomac.
in favor Of the slave power. The pas
sage of the fugitive slave law, which
would compel the best man and the
purest woman to send back a sister
woman, fleeing before the masters LASH
into conditions where to read was a
crime, marriage a mockery. and virtue
an accident, was constitutional 1t en-
ragged the north as nothing else had so
done.
The literature was all produced by
the north, except the speeches in con-
gress and sermons from pulpits. The
woes OF this man In bonds gave no
flight to the poets imagination, nor to
the romancers pen. Whittier's poems
OF freedom were recited In every nor
thern school house, and read by every
fireside. Silently there came from the
press, as the leaves that fail in the
autumn forests, thousands of copies
of Uncle Toms Cabin It presented
the dark side Of the question. But 1t
was read in every northern home. SH-
emily there went up the cry: How long
Oh Lord, how longT
"The answer came. John Brown
was born Of New England parentage.
His youth and early manhood were
not unlike those Of others. AS men
forged the letters tighter upon the
slave by legislative enactment, silently
there was being fostered within him
hatred for the system.
"Out Of that vast territory known to
earlier students of geography as the
Great American Desert it was propos-
ed to carve two new American COM
monwealths Kansas and Nebraska.
The north was desirious that these
should come into the union free, while
the south was working her subtle for
ces that they should come in as slave
states. Then 1T was enacted by con-
gress that this question should be set
tied by the people themselves. Kansas
became the pivotal point of the con-
est. 1t was getting It's permanent pop
u1ation from the north, but this was
nothing compared TO the number the
south might send IN within short no.
tice. They came over and voted early
and voted often. They organized the
legislature and took the code OF Mis-
souri, and enacted 1t, word for word,
slavery and all, for Kansas. These
were the spurious laws the people said
they would not obey, and which the
president said they must oDey John
Browns time had come. He went to
Kansas in freedoms cause and for free
dom's sake. His work in Kansas was
no more than any patriot might have
done. It was not this, but his sudden
appearance, and the blow he struck at
Harper's Ferry, that lent wing to his
renown., On the night OF October 49,
1859, he came down from the Maryland
Heights with twenty-one men, and his
appearance was like lightning out OF
cloudless sky, with Its sun at noon day
splendor. Not single gun was heard
until the militia had arrived and en-
deavored to capture and crush the lold
liberator and his little band. Within
twenty hours from his first appear
ance $4,000 militia, supported by the
United States marines, had arrived
Brown, seeing no way of escape thru