human
It is unjust that I should suffer such a penalty. Had I interferred ... in behalf of the rich, the powerful, the intelligent, the so-called great, or in behalf of any of their friends ... it would have been all right.... I say I am yet too young to understand that God is any respecter of persons. I believe that to have interferred as I have done, in behalf of His despised poor, I did no 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 say, let it be done....
gpt
Not one man of prominence in religion or politics will identify himself with the John Brown meeting.
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and signing his letter,
gpt
Faithfully and fervently yours, wrote,
human
My voice is against any attempt at rescue. It would inevitably, I fear, lead to bloodshed which could not compensate nor be compensated. If the people dare murder their victim, as they are determined to do, and in the name of the law ... the moral effect of the execution will be without a parallel since the scenes on Calvary eighteen hundred years ago, and the halter that day sanctified shall be the cord to draw millions to salvation.
gpt
In Boston, however, Ralph Waldo Emerson spoke to a tremendous audience of
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and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow recorded in his diary,
gpt
This will be a great day in our history; the date of a new revolution. Far away in France, Victor Hugo declared,
human
The eyes of Europe are fixed on America. The hanging of John Brown will open a latent fissure that will finally split the union asunder.... You preserve your shame, but you kill your glory.
gpt
for it was the only occasion he ever found fully wicked enough to warrant