![]() He stooped somewhat as he walked was rather narrow-shouldered. John Brown would not strike one who saw him as being a very tall man. It was Brown's idea that he was divinely appointed to bring American Slavery to a sudden and violent end. Persuaded that he had a mission to rescue all the persecuted damsels in Spain. His rank among the world's notabilities will be among such fanatics as Peter the Hermit, who believed himself commissioned of Cod to redeem the Holy Sepulchre from the hands of the infidels-Joanna Southcote, who deemed herself big with the promised Shiloh-Ignatius Loyola, who thought that the Son of Man appeared to him, bearing his cross on his shoulders, and gave him a Latin commission of mighty import-or Don Quixote, who was So strange a career as his has not arrested the public attention since Joe Smith was shot in the Carthage jail. ![]() John Brown-variously known as "Old Brown," "Fighting Brown," and "Ossawatomie Brown"-made his first public appearance in Lykins County, Kansas, in the year 1855. To gratify this desire, as well as to record, in convenient form, the facts concerning the outbreak and its suppression, with the trial of the leader, John Brown, we have compiled the following pages, aiming only to state the truth in all respects, according to the best sources of information. The madness of the attempt, the boldness-amounting to heroism-of the handful of men who were concerned in the movement, and especially the romantic history and personal character of the chief actor, have awakened in the public mind an ardent desire to know more of the man and his intentions. The extraordinary, outbreak at Harper's Ferry, in Virginia, on the night of the 16th of October, 1859, the forcible seizure of the national Arsenal, the capture, imprisonment and killing of the people, and the almost immediate suppression and extermination of the insurgents, are events of historical importance. In the Clerks's Office of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Including Cooke's Confession, and all the Incidents of the Execution.Įntered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859, by Life, Trial and Execution of Captain John Brown 1859ĬOMPILED FROM OFFICIAL AND AUTHENTIC SOURCES.
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