A Voice from Harper's Ferry: A Narrative of Events at Harper's Ferry : with Incidents Prior and Subsequent to Its Capture by Captain Brown and His Men |
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A. D. Stevens acquainted adjourned Albert Hazlett Armory arms arrest arrived Barclay Coppic brave old C. P. Tidd Canada Canada West Captain Brown capture Chambersburg CHAPTER charge Charles Chatham Colonel colored command Convention Cook cowardly Dangerfield Newby Delany Edwin Coppic election enemy engine house entered the bridge escape F. J. Merriam fight fired flag of truce Forbes freight friends hands Harper's Ferry head-quarters J. H. Kagi John Copeland John E John H John Henry Kagi journey Kansas Kennedy Farm killed Kinnard Leeman Lewis Washington liberty Maryland side Monday morning mountains movements Nat Turner night o'clock Old Brown OLD JOHN BROWN Oliver Brown Osawatomie Brown outbreak Owen Brown party plans position prisoner taken received Richard Realf rifle factory school-house Secretary sent Sherrard Lewis Leary Shields Green shot slaveholders slavery slaves Stewart Taylor tion to-day told took town troops Virginia Wager House wagon watchman Watson Brown Whipple wounded
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Page 65 - Says Old Brown, Osawatomie Brown, "Boys, we've got an army large enough to march and whip the town ! "Take the town, and seize the muskets, free the negroes, and then arm them; Carry the County and the State, ay, and all the potent South; On their own heads be the slaughter, if their victims rise to harm them These Virginians ! who believed not, nor would heed the warning mouth.
Page 66 - Potomac, and knocked the sentry down; Took the guarded armory-building, and the muskets and the cannon; Captured all the county majors and the colonels, one by one; Scared to death each gallant scion of Virginia they ran on, And before the noon of Monday, I say, the deed was done.
Page 65 - This good work," declared the captain, " shall be on a holy night ! " It was on a Sunday evening, and before the noon of Monday, With two 'sons, and Captain Stephens, fifteen privates — black and white, Captain Brown, Osawatomie Brown, Marched across the bridged Potomac, and knocked the sentry down ; Took the guarded armory-building, and the muskets and the cannon ; Captured all the county majors and the colonels, one by one ; Scared to death each gallant...
Page 29 - And now, gentlemen, let me press this one thing on your minds. You all know how dear life is to you, and how dear your lives are to your friends; and, in remembering that, consider that the lives of others are as dear to them as yours are to you. Do not, therefore, take the life of any one if you can possibly avoid it; but, if necessary to take life in order to save your own, then make sure work of it.
Page 66 - Virginia they ran on, And before the noon of Monday, I say, the deed was done. Mad Old Brown, Osawatomie Brown, With his eighteen other crazy men, went in and took the town. Very little noise and bluster, little smell of powder made he; It was all done in the midnight, like the Emperor's coup d'etat. "Cut the wires! Stop the rail-cars! Hold the streets and bridges!
Page 63 - Then he grasped his trusty rifle, and boldly fought for Freedom ; , Smote from border unto border the fierce invading band; And he and his brave boys vowed — so might Heaven help and speed 'em ! — They would save those grand old prairies from the curse that blights the land ; And Old Brown, Osawatomie Brown, Said — "Boys, the Lord will aid us!
Page 65 - Or whether he'd turned parson, or was jacketed and shorn; For Old Brown, Osawatomie Brown, Mad as he was, knew texts enough to wear a parson's gown. He bought no ploughs and harrows, spades and shovels, and such trifles; But quietly to his rancho there came, by every train, Boxes full of pikes and pistols, and his wellbeloved Sharp's rifles; And eighteen other madmen joined their leader there again.
Page 66 - Republic, with himself for guiding star,— This Old Brown, Osawatomie Brown; And the bold two thousand citizens ran off and left the town. Then was riding and railroading and expressing here and thither; And the Martinsburg Sharpshooters and the Charlestown Volunteers, And the Shepherdstown and Winchester Militia hastened whither Old Brown was said to muster his ten thousand grenadiers. General Brown! Osawatomie Brown!
Page 10 - ... execution of the project in view by the convention. Mr. Delany and others spoke in favor of the project and the plan, and both were agreed to by general consent. Mr. Brown then presented a plan of organization, entitled "Provisional Constitution and Ordinances for the People of the United States/' and moved the reading of the same.
Page 23 - Ferry there was no milk and water sentimentality — no offensive contempt for the negro, while working in his cause ; the pulsations of each and every heart beat in harmony for the suffering and pleading slave. I thank God that I have been permitted to realize to its furthest, fullest extent the social harmony of an anti-slavery family, carrying out to the letter the principles of its ante-type, the anti-slavery cause.