The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-03-27

... one. and, / may add, a very eT-
....1 one for the reason that poll
.. vas becoming very much tangled.
... old parties and the old time lead
..ere being driven, by the strong
of passion II prejudice from
.. we'll known and long used chan
.e out into unknown and storm
.-.eI seas, bcset with dangerous
was oVidcnt-nothing could have
beam Iaiucr,as matters were trcnding,
.... Ii breakup was inevitable. Alb
...4 uuiaIn had about broken up the
##i- party in the North, and ii was
Omitted that unless the DougIasitcs
... In" Southern wing of the Demo
..#,ic party could harmonic and sup
...l The same ticket that d black Re-
.|uHllcau would be President, and, it
#- conceded North and South, that
-..a a condition would result in Il
|..-1upuon of the Union. An article
...gh appeared in the New York
E.a1d soon after the John Brown
.6l Jcnouncing the raid and advert
.- Ip the fact that the AboIitionists
..m. at that time holding public meet
.-. iI Boston and elsewhere in which
n.a Brown was being held up as q
r..jot and a martyred saint, pr0phe-
..i that q disruption of the Union
..aIl be the inevitable consequence
uI 81 black Republican victory. 1t was
.. lne John Brown raid per Sc that
...I The South for the South was
satisfied when the law had been vim
...trt. but the South saw that the
E..thorn heart was in sympathy with
..I Brown, eulogizing his heroism
..l 4toaliug oVcr the murders he had
..umittcd. thus endorsing by speech
."I resolution Il movement which had
..- it's object Il Wholesale numbering
u. fIna people of the South.
John Brown, Cook and Coppie, the
tn"* white men who We're hanged,
.. admitted that their object was to
n"I-sEcT. and they knew that hey had
..rlvltcd their lives. They had boen
,.4aged for quite q while in making
-Au arrangements; and to arm the
.e4InoS they had brought into Viz
-llI#. i'm addition to several hundred
.tI@. about two thousand pixies. And
l. cap the climax they had taken fore
.na possession Of the United States
u.sou3I AT Harper's Ferry, Va. and
u"je that the base OF operations. Not
outstanding all which, in the North,
.UoIIonism was in sympathy with the
WjL, and it sang and prayed and
shouted over the old horse thief and
murderer. and rejOiced in the fact
That hc mad killed Southern men.
Readers OF this latter day may find
70 difficult to believe that any people,
anywhere, however much they might
have differed from the Southern slave
-a- DNhN AttN - - 80 *
and endorsed such a character as John
Brown. The abOitioniStS not only did
III rlen. but they are doing it now.
There is no character that is dearer
'u The hearts of the abOlitiOnistS than
That If John Brown. They love him
hoagse he hated the South and de-
sired to be the murderer of the men,
women and children of the South.
Am [ saying too much?
/ have before me a book entitled
Exciting Events" by Prof. Allen
Fowler. which book claims to be a
Young Peoples Complete History of
M. United States-Home and School
&ioiou."
lii this book I find the following
.."unt of Il cold blOOded murder
."aHittcd by John Brown, written in
. style intended to make children be
""Fe it was right and proper to muir
ar q man if he owned slaves.
|hc historian puts it this way:
III was known that he CBrOWn)
"a5 a friend Of the slaves, and time
"ni again they came to him for pro-
lrHou. one day q slave came to
.m begging him to assist in saw
.a- his Wife and Children" Now lis
.u to this historian: True as steel,
..e brave John went to his rescue.
p" boldly marched to the plantation
|H- killed the planter
The brave John!'' That sounds we'll
M history. and is very well calculated
IN" deceive children. But the truth of
SIZE. matter is, that this act of Old
Brown was a cold-bIooded murder.
Hhf raad how this historian goes on
with his story: This act Chat is,
Thee Killing of a farmerD brought down
'an wrath of the South, and for safe
|E Inc (BroWn) went 20 Canada"
There is a great big lie done up in
THAT statement. The historian would
make the Child-the Southern child
ut th"t-believe that old John went
II" Canada to get away from the
"H1ath of the South when the truth
"' The matter is, he. like any other
""j"jgrer will do, skipped the country
'n save his neck. The South could
.". have done him any harm, for
.." South was not controlling matters
h. Eausas. 1t was the Kansas sheriff
"ni the Kansas court the old murder
'- IN rom.
3h" historian would make the i'm
"" ION that the wrath Of the South
""HuIuHtcd the whole country, North
we'll as South. the only safe re
.'"l for a brave man Was in Can
H. Even n child can see the trick
.fcl th"hiStorian SecinS disposed to
"..E. Why didn't old John stop in
""-ton2 The South could not have
."u"icd him there. Certainly not. but
" laws of Massachusetts and other
<"rEIfcrn States, to say nothing of-the
'~'jrTaI laws could have procured
H- arrest trial and punishment;
"'hrc he fled to Canada-got clean GU
of t1" United StateS-bccaUse he had
."ldtcd state and Federal laws, ana
".nW his neck was in danger while he
'~ inside his country, whose laws he
Hst rokcn
The historian goes on to tell us more
.""ut the saintcd murderer. whose
f5pdy lies a~-m0ulding in the grave,
t'ut his soul goes marching on"
"%tteTc,' that IS in Canada, III
iIinWn) was not content, and Il few
""nths after, he, with his sons. hireC
farm near Harper's Ferry, and wen
.' work. as the neighborhood sup
|".+ed tc n the soil"
'|h historian stuitiGes himself b,
"tjinE that the murderer who hat