The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-30


Wills to remove, and that he gives TO
both North and South this terrible
war, as the one woe due to those py
whom the offense came. snail we as
Germ therein, any departure from those
divine attributes which the believers
in a living God always ascribe TO MN
''Fondly do we hope-ferventiy 90
we pray--that this mighty scourge Of
war may speedily pass away. 1et. II
God wills it continue until all the
wealth piled by the bondnan's two
hundred and fifty years OF unrequltea
toll, shall be sunk. and until every
drop of blood drawn with the iasn
shall be paid by another drawn by the
sword, as was said three thousand
years ago. so still it must be SAID
sThe judgments Of the Lord are true
and righteous altogether. -.
Brown gathered his meagre latter
donations, none of whom hair signteo
his object; with few rusty and use
less pixies. some old rifles, sparse am
munition and no supplies, he TOOK ms
long and tortuous journey to Harpers
Ferry. To complete his armament ne
seized from Colonel Washington, near
Harper's Ferry, a sword once used and
owned by General washington. HIS
attack is history; he was padly Wounu
ed and two OF his sons were klileo;
If we stand close to the time ana
event, we imagine we are reading over
again the story of the doughty knight
and his adventure with the WIND mills;
the preux chevalier of Kansas seemed
less campaign than ever did the mel
ancholy knight of La Mancha. Wnere
we stand back from the canvas ana
take perspective OF the anair VIII a
| see at a glance what a victory his de-
| feat really was. The soul OF the nation
awakened, and slavery. ungarbed or It's
profits. stood in the limelight, mon
| strous and vile. His candle threw
far light. Then came the war wnlcn
ended slavery everywhere, and the
| earth rolled free.
| Arrested by Colonel Robert e. Lee,
| of the United States army. on october
Is, 1859, he was tried for treason, con-
demned and forty-seven days after
ward was hung at Charlestown, va.
| The revenges of time are often terrible;
| On April 9, 1865, under the shade or
| the apple tree at Appomattox, the
| same Lee surrendered to Grant for
higher grade of treason. for more
colossal crime, for multitudinous
| murder John Brown had not the
means or ability to perpetrate.
| I shall not repeat the details of John
| Browns life. Measured by the little
standards of men, he may have been
/ insane; but in the avenging purposes
of heaven he was the chosen instru-
ment to right a wrong; with the torch
! of liberty held in his implacable and
unrelenting hand, he was Gods own
incendiary to purge the land with
| fire.
slavery shot to Death.
I Slavery was shot to death as our
soldiers sung John Browns Soul Is
4 Marching On How many feet have
stepped to that strain? There comes
to me at this moment, vast army,
the flower of the land. who followed
to the field of battle; there were nearly
100000 of them ali told. Imbued
with the same spirit, they fought ana
|, bled and died, and this state is strewn
] with their graves. 1t is the ferver or
all this in our blood; 1t is the dash
and sheen of the flag in our eye, it is
the memory of the holocausts of dead
in our hearts that makes the Kansas
, citizen a national patriot. There is q
reason why we breed stalwarts here.
What power in peace ana what a
sinew in war. That is the quality or
|, this audience. No Caesar ever saw
such an assembly, no muster of king,
no call of an emperor, no edict of a
car was ever answered by such peo=
pie. puissant and glorious, as stand in
e the sunlight and hear me today. To
this host here gathered. linked to the
past and all the generations to come
by the blood in your veins, I pay you
the full measure of my obesience.
John Brown sleeps Swallowed by a
!, great rock at North Elba His grave
Is a shrine. Misunderstood, reviled
and despised, he lived his life apart
from men. beyond their touch. pos
sessed Of one purpose and died mar
And Christ, two thousand years ago.
persisted on the cross.
u The country is peace; danger is not
> in our sky. This is my country. my
!, land, my people and they are yours.
Coming of Roosevelt.
i Tomorrow greater audience will be
S addressed by an ex-president of the
g United States. illustrious and henored
y in all lands and especially loved in
Kansas, for he has the genuine Kan
sas spirit. He has made the world re-
a spond to his touch. He is an instru-
: ment of the worlds peace. We glory
8 in him as magnificent specimen of
e an American citizen, and tomorrow he
: will be honored by the great state of
t Kansas; and to that great state that
e | cradles our birth and urns our ashes,
n reach out my heart to her and lifting
}, up my glass 1 fill it with the cool of
f its wells and the sweet of its springs
e and drink to her and her coming
g glory and honor.
r If there is an old veteran in this as
S sembly who participated in that con-
d flict with the gray on his poll. palsied
e of limb and a mist in his eyes, want
a this comrade and blood-brother of
n mine to know that, dying, would not
= forget to whisper him back my love.
e This beautiful park is dedicated to
M the memory of John Brown. greater
e acreage to him dead than ever vested
n in him living. Upon it has been rear
e ed white marble shaft to his honor.
: Here people will congregate; here the
: lover will WOO and here the maid be
d won; here children will troop the un-
s thoughted hours away; here care will
i lay its burdens down for awhile, and
T here devotion may set as Jacob did in
q dream, its ladder to scale heaven and
s bring its angels down, and here his
: story be told SO long as the suns burn,
II the moons increase and the great ages
= onward roll"
Il AS men grow to understand in the
; after light the everlasting ways, they
y will the more and more perceive that
= when the hand of man had failed in
y such a juncture and stress, IL needed
. the outstretched arm of the Almighty