 | Hermann Von Holst - 1892 - 486 pages
...would have given but a passing thought to a negro insurrection." 1 Brown's last written words are: " I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged awny but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed... | |
 | Samuel Orcutt - 1878 - 950 pages
...one of his guards in the jail on the morning of his execution: CHARLESTOWN, VA., December 2, 1859. I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes...that without very much bloodshed it might be done. A week before this, Brown's friend and supporter in his Virginia campaign, Theodore Parker, had written... | |
 | 1896 - 840 pages
...much living as dead ; and it was thus that he expressed himself. On the day of his execution he wrote: "I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes...that without very much bloodshed it might be done." As one stands within the field where he was executed, and looks off at the wide-spreading view, hemmed... | |
 | Alfred Seelye Roe - 1885 - 42 pages
...wrongs of an oppressed race, and of his deep anxiety for the slaves ; and his last written words were : "I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes...that without very much bloodshed it might be done." [December 2nd, 1859.] Our retrospect would be incomplete did we not recall the events happening in... | |
 | Worcester Historical Society, Worcester, Mass - 1885 - 546 pages
...wrongs of an oppressed race, and of his deep anxiety for the slaves ; and his last written words were : "I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes...that without very much bloodshed it might be done." [December 2nd, 1859.] Our retrospect would be incomplete did we not recall the events happening in... | |
 | Franklin Benjamin Sanborn - 1885 - 684 pages
...one of his guards in the jail on the morning of his execution : — CBARLESTOWN, \\.,-Dec. 2, 1859. I. John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes...myself that without very much bloodshed it might be doue. "Without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins." This was John Brown's old-fashioned... | |
 | 1885 - 526 pages
...wrongs of an oppressed race, and of his deep anxiety for the slaves ; and his last written words were : "I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes...never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now 1 84 think, vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done." [December 2nd,... | |
 | George Alfred Townsend - 1886 - 590 pages
...brows and chin, and most hopeless face. John Brown took up the pen, and slowly, silently wrote : " I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes...think, vainly flattered myself that, without very muck bloodshed, it might be done." As the four young men put their heads together to read this piece... | |
 | 1896 - 786 pages
...much living as dead ; and it was thus that he expressed himself. On the day of his execution he wrote: "I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes...away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, nattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done." As one stands within the field... | |
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I John Brown am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood. I had as I now think vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done. 
