Echoes of Harper's Ferry ...James Redpath A collection of anti-slavery papers, poems, etc., commemorative of John Brown. |
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... respecting his character and actions . It costs us nothing to be just . We can at least express our sympathy with , and admiration of , him and his companions , and that is what I now propose to do . First , as to his history . I will ...
... respecting his character and actions . It costs us nothing to be just . We can at least express our sympathy with , and admiration of , him and his companions , and that is what I now propose to do . First , as to his history . I will ...
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... respect for the Constitution , and his faith in the permanence of this Union . Slavery he deemed to be wholly opposed to these , and he was its determined foe . He was by descent and birth a New England farmer , a man of great common ...
... respect for the Constitution , and his faith in the permanence of this Union . Slavery he deemed to be wholly opposed to these , and he was its determined foe . He was by descent and birth a New England farmer , a man of great common ...
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... respects be compared , were rangers in a lower and less important field . They could bravely face their country's foes , but he had the cour- age to face his country herself , when she was in the wrong . A Western writer says , to ...
... respects be compared , were rangers in a lower and less important field . They could bravely face their country's foes , but he had the cour- age to face his country herself , when she was in the wrong . A Western writer says , to ...
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... respect themselves , and with a dozen of them I will oppose any hundred such men as these Buford ruf- fians . ' " He said that if one offered himself to be a soldier under him , who was forward to tell what he could or would do , if he ...
... respect themselves , and with a dozen of them I will oppose any hundred such men as these Buford ruf- fians . ' " He said that if one offered himself to be a soldier under him , who was forward to tell what he could or would do , if he ...
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... respect for my fellow - men , except as one may outweigh a million , is not being increased these days . I have noticed the cold - blooded way in which newspaper writers and men generally speak of this event , as if an ordina- ry ...
... respect for my fellow - men , except as one may outweigh a million , is not being increased these days . I have noticed the cold - blooded way in which newspaper writers and men generally speak of this event , as if an ordina- ry ...
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Page 394 - Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the forces of the gentiles, and that their kings may be brought. For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.
Page 334 - Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear ; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
Page 409 - I'd be Nearer, my God, to thee, Nearer to thee ! •3. There let the way appear, Steps unto heaven ; All that thou sendest me, In mercy given; Angels to beckon me Nearer, my God, to thee, Nearer to thee ! 4.
Page 140 - I believe that to have interfered as I have done, as I have always freely admitted I have done, in behalf of His despised poor, was not wrong, but right. Now, if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children, and with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments — I submit ; so let it be done, Let me say one word further.
Page 443 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Page 409 - NEARER, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee ! E'en though it be a cross That raiseth me ; Still all my song shall be, — Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee...
Page 228 - Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple : and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters : and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
Page 438 - The garlands wither on your brow, Then boast no more your mighty deeds; Upon Death's purple altar now See, where the victor-victim bleeds: Your heads must come To the cold tomb; Only the actions of the just Smell sweet, and blossom in their dust.
Page 211 - His truth, they shook off this yoke of antichristian bondage, and as the Lord's free people joined themselves (by a covenant of the Lord) into a church estate, in the fellowship of the gospel, to walk in all His ways made known, or to be made known unto them, according to their best endeavours, whatsoever it should cost them, the Lord assisting them.8 And that it cost them something this ensuing history will declare.
Page 214 - Thus saith the LORD ; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor : and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.