Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1910-09-02
the FIRST SHAFT TO JOHN
BROWN

THE FIRST SHAFT TO JOHN
BROWN
At Akron, Ohio, on the list there
vas erected to John Brown the first
of this kind yet to be erect
d to his memory. The shaft is 10 feet
nigh and is surmounted by an eagle.
There are many millions of freed men,
who were liberated by the outcome OF
the war. 1t is strange that they have
omitted SO great duty if he was the
real liberator. The present onument
was erected by the "German American
Alliance 1t is not certain what this
alliance stands for, nor what inspired
these patriotic people to this "noble"
deed. They, however, took the burden
off the shoulders of the negroes and
good white men that they are,
bore it themselves, sort OF new
"white mans burden" There must
he something more than the fact that
Mr.. Brown was hanged at Harper's
Ferry to have inspired this good deed.
The Germans do not always require
man to be hanged to emulate his viz
tues, unless they be Ohio Germans
We have sought the cause and we
can locate it nowhere, save that these
Dutchmen are some of those, or the
descendants of some Of those, mercena-
ries who Uncle Sam hired during the
war to tight his battles, when the ma
tiyes were slow to 60 the front, and
that they are now on the pension Tolls
drawing salaries or "pay" for the val
erous acts performed under Banks and
Seigel, when Stonewall Jackson used
to catch them by the thousands ana
herd them like swine to prison. IL
must be the pension money which SO
inspires them, as it was the bounty
money in the sixties.
No German American was freed from
slavery, save that of his own country,
and the slavery of peasantry and OF
poverty. If "John Browns body"
now causes them to go down into their
leans and 'scough up" for a monument
no W much more should the negroes
sscome acrossn with their funds, it he
actually was the cause of their free
dom? 1t is strange that the 'sFret
Soil of Kansas" has not monuments
to him sticking up over it as dead
trees in a burnt forest, if, in far away
Ohio, they begin to rise seventy-hv'
feet high. Yet it is not SO strang'
when, as a fact, there are towns nea
Osaw atomic where large signs stant
with such words as these, mo negroe
are allowed in this town." Thus tn
town becomes attractive to the Kan
san, the Jayhawker, and no doubt tn
nGerman American" of that country
When we are told Kansas is to place
: statue of Mr.. Brown in Statuary Hal
| to the exclusion of such men as ingalls,
and Plum, and Brewer, indeed a lis
of other truly great men, we ought nc
to be surprised at the waking up
e Akron, Ohio, on the part of the &c
: man American Alliance, whatev'
/ that may mean. These may be pa
e doned for rushing IN where angels TEL
: to tread. They were probably expelle
;. from their country for reasons be
n known to the Emperor, and imaglr
# that Mr.. Brown did much towal
70 their material welfare, and that q
t. work makes them happy every qua
n ter when the pension drafts con
n round. They must be to some exte
% disguised when they see that the n
|" groes have not piled up single stol
'e to this object of German affectio
d Still they ought to remember that
ot some of Browns own Stree SOIL
negro is not permitted-he has
home, no abiding place. Summing
i, this remarkable German aff1atus on
a. Mr.. Brown, whose body lies mould
Of ing in the grave, we cannot reconc
d, it in any way save the joyousness
n spired by the liberality of the Pensi
Of Department. This bit of German
Dr. triotism is just ''the cheese" the Ii
~ burgher cheese it seems, of Germ
American loyalty.