“an attempt to incite an insurrection and destroy the institution of slavery.”
If free elections lose their meaning in America, we’ll need an insurrection to destroy Obamaville.
John Brown was full of the Lord, just doing God’s will.
Antebellum.
My wife and I were coming back from a trip to NY state some yrs. ago.
We stopped in Gettysburg to take in the history. I had a relative that was involved in Pickett’s Charge and wanted to see that historical ground.
It was far more sobering than I imagined it would be.
Spent the night in Gettysburg, and drove to Antietam and toured the battlefield of the bloodiest battle of the War.
Pulling out of the parking lot I turned right instead of left onto the
Old Harpers Ferry Road instead of going left that would have taken me back to the new highway.
So glad I did.
The road is two lane, like driving in the mountains, following the Potomac River. Absolutely gorgeous .
You can still see the barge canal, locks of the old C&O canal.
At the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers sits Harpers Ferry.
On the Potomac side, old storefronts that may well have been standing from Civil War days.
The Shenandoah River is a series on rapids/falls over steps. Unusual and beautiful.
We were running out of time so only drove through Harpers Ferry but it’s a step back in time.
Thanks for the reminder, I want to go back and spend some time in Harpers Ferry and surroundings.
Then I saw his cabin and grave in the Lake Placid, NY area (a few years before the '80 Olympics) and was really confused about the treason thing.
Brown cared about blacks so much that the one of his first victims in the raid was a free black man of Harpers Ferry who refused to join his raid.
John Brown...the original community organizer.
one place I have never been to but it’s on my plans when I go to the Gettysburg 150 year anniversary re-enactment
John Brown:I rejoice that it is my good fortune to have seen, not only the end of slavery, but to see the day when the whole truth can be told about this matter without prejudice to either the living or the dead. I shall however allow myself little prominence in these disclosures. Your interests, like mine, are in the all-commanding figure of the story, and to him I con- secrate the hour. His zeal in the cause of my race was far greater than mine -- it was as the burning sun to my taper light -- mine was bounded by time, his stretched away to the boundless shores of eternity. I could live for the slave, but he could die for him. The crown of martyrdom is high, far beyond the reach of ordinary mortals, and yet happily no special greatness or supe- rior moral excellence is necessary to discern and in some measure appreciate a truly great soul. Cold, calculating and unspiritual as most of us are, we are not wholly insensible to real greatness ; and when we are brought in contact with a man of commanding mold, towering high and alone above the millions, free from all conventional fetters, true to his own moral convictions, a " law unto himself," ready to suffer misconstruction, ignoring torture and death for what he believes to be right, we are compelled to do him homage. In the stately shadow, in the sublime presence of such a soul I find myself standing to-night ; and how to do it reverence, how to do it justice, how to honor the dead with due regard to the living, has been a matter of most anxious solicitude.
An address by Frederick Douglass
at the fourteenth anniversary
of Storer College, Harper's Ferry,
West Virginia, May 30, 1881
Didn’t Brown lose two sons as well as most of his men when Lee marched in retook the armory? Isn’t that strange, a white man dying for the want to end slavery...Hmmmm Mr BOzo
Obama.
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