The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-11-07

WhiSkey rebellion OF pennsylvania.
The notification acts of the New
England States 1.-The Kansas war,
and the act of Congress in pardOning
the murders?' The John Brown af-
fair is barely mentioned, and then II
is characterized as the act of a mad
man, but the histories taught IN our
schools do not mention that q large
| portion OF tbs irlltl5 l1en IT the
North, and makers Of public opinion,
knew of the outrage long before ii
took place and contributed to make 1T
successful. Our schools use Elmer
sons essays as a tex book, but there
is no him that Emerson was n OF
John Browns chief admirers n
abettors. Chief Justice Chase, E. NJ.
Stanton, Charles Sumner and all the
prominent men Of Abraham LincOln's
party knew and kept the secret, IN
order that John Brown should kill
the white people and put the blacks
in their places.
While preparing for his incursion
into the South, John Brown visited
many leading Northern men end
cities. He went to Chicago, Roches-
ter and New York, and was enter
tanned as a guest at the Astor House
At Boston he was the guest Of Judge
Russell and DR.. Thayer. Rev. Theo-
dore Parker entertained him at Con-
cord and gave him aid for his enter
prise. He (Brown) never tried to
disguise his grim and there
can be 40 question that a committee
Of Massachusetts citizens furnished
him with two hundred famous Sharp'S
rif1ed carbines. Senator Thayer gave
him arms to the value Of five hundred
and fifty dollars. George Luther
Stearns co-operated and sympathized
with the Harper'S Ferry movement,
as did many others.
Our histories do not teach the
children that John Brown addressed
one branch Of the Massachusetts,
Legislature in regard to his purpose,
nor how he spoke to crowded houses
in the leading cities Of Connecticut,
from one of which he bought rifles
and pixies with which to arm the ne
groes, paying for them contributed
money amounting to $3.50. The cad
ers Of the Northern movement knew
very many things about which our
school histories are silent.
Senator Henry Howe says he had a
conversation with Brown, but he did
not yarn Virginia, Rev. Theo. Parker
says In preparing for Harpers Ferry
in the State Of New York, under a
perfectly loyal roof, to a few tried and
tfusty people, the Virginia scheme
was rnfolded in all it's parts. The To-
cality illustrated the provisions, and
contingencies explained the move
ment detailed. the probable as posi-
Die eVentua1tie confirmed"
The whole evening and all the next
day the discussions vent on, the "O1d
Hero not the Mad Man." answer
ing questions, quieting doubts, dis
arming fears. f. B.. Sanborn, Edwin
Morton and other prominent men and
graduates Of Harvard were present.
Perhaps, il our histories would re-
veal more about the underground
railroad, our children could b. made
TO see hat the Southern White man
kept his slaves ignorant Of books, be-
cause to educate the negro was q
means to help the John Browns and
their secret allies to murder the white
people,
But to return to the John Brown
affair: Our school histories give no
account of the funeral orations, the
mourning draperies in all the church.
es, the blasphemous speeches made
by silver-tongued orators, nor the
hundreds OF threatening letters writ
ten to Governor Wise of Virginia de-
manding h release of this man, who
had not only committed the cold
blooded murder in Virginia, but all
the North knew that his hands had
been dyed with the blood of South
ern settlers in Kansas and that he in
tended to incite the slaves to kill the
helpless white women and children of
the South while a New England or
ganIzatiOn only waited the signal to
join in the massacre.
The teaching Of history in the
South since the war between the
States has been a hard thing to do.
because all teachers, especially those
in rural districts, have not had &C
cess to authentic Southern literature
that would enable them to turn a
light on such histories within their
reach. The State ought to enable
the pIhiic school teachers fn ha1-o OF
hand all the books published by the
Southern History Society, and the
truth Of our history should be spread
broadcast over our land. We owe ii
to ourselves and to our children thai
the truth should be revealed to them.
The histories and many Of the books
written about the war are written to
sell, and we see such expressions as
this: The Confederate soldier fought
Tor what he thought to be right Nc