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[_ ' V STORY OF JOHN BROWN. f (Continued from . Page 1.) breathless crowd with scorn as he exclaimed. " 'Virginians! I did not ask tor quarter at the time I was taken. (He was badly wounded.) I do not ask for quarter now. I do not ask to have my life spared, it you seek my blood you may have it at any moment without the mockery of a trial. ^ I have no counsel. If we are to be mrcvu into a mere rorm or trial?a trial tor execution?you might spare yourselves that trouble. I am ready for my fate. I beg no insult, nothing but that which conscience glvei or cowardice drives you to practice. I again aak to be excused the mockery Of a trial- Then* John Brown sat down. Hi* auditors were amazed and thrilled. They even respected the daring old man. "When the second day's court open> ed an attorney for Brown informed the court that he had received a telegram from an akron, Ohio, man who declared that there was a good deal of-ineanlty in Brown's family, and he desired to investigate the statement. "While the defense counsel was making the plea, John Brown interrupted him. The old man struggled* forward, his eyes blazing with wrath and his voice shaking with emotion; In unmistakable language he repudiated his attorney's plea and denied there was any insanity in his father's family, though some of his mother's people had >heeu mentally afflicted, 'lbe court ruled that there was no testimony supporting the evidence and the insanity end would be disregarded and the trial-proceed. "Several witnesses described how the armed band came across the bridge at midnight and tqok possession of the United States arsenal at Harper's Ferry. They described in detail the stirring events of October 16, 17 and 18. "The raiders took possission of one of the nearby plantations and made the slaves and plantation owner all prisoners of war. The night express train was held up on the bridge and the porter shot. 'Men were shot dowu ou The streeet, witnesses said, and the mayor killed. Militia companies were hastily summoned .from -Martinsburg, Shepherdstown und Charles Town. ^ "Finally the remnvnts of the Brown party barricaded thmselves in i tka 1 " ?? >u< uiumuiimi ure engine . nouse 01 Harper's Ferry. It was luter known an John Brown's Fort- There they were surrounded by troops und escape shut off. Efforts to negotiate were futile. Flag of tritce bearers front brown's barricade were shot down -or captured. On the night of the second day after he entered the town a company of marines from Washington arrived. They were under the command of Col. Robert E. Lee und Lieut. J. E. B. Stuart, who li.ter became the two great generals of the Confederacy. "Erowu refused to surrender and the uext morning the fort was carried by storm. brown and his surviving companions were captured. Brown was badly wounded lu several places. So were some of his * companions. Among the town's cititens who were taken prisoner by f Brown was Col. Lewis W.' Washington, grand-nephew of George Washington. "The casualties of John Brown's ifrrper's Ferry raid were 12. killed, twl wounded .and one escaped. T.wo of Brown's sons were killed. Of the attackers five were killed and nine wounded. ? "On the sixth day of the trial argument was beguh: the court deliv red its charge, and the jury retired. Boon a verdict of guilty was returned " There was no demonstatiou In the court room. The next day Brown waa brought into court for sentence. He was asked If he had ' anything to say why sentence should not be Imposed. His reply to the court was another landmark in this country's history. He said: ^ '"I have, may it please the court, a few words to say. In the first place 1 deny everything but what I have already admitted?the design on my part to free the slaves. That was all 1 Intended. Now, if it is necessary that I forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice and mingle my. blood with the millions of slaves In this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, oruel and unjust enactments, 1 submit; let It be done! Let me say one word further. I feel entirely satis fled with the treatment I have recalved on ay trial. Considering all &jgF ^ circumstances, it has been more |K^fiieroM than I expected. But I feel ^ no consciousness of guilt. Now 1 have done.' Then the court imposed the sen% tence, which was* that he should bb Ktak?o to a place of execution on De(jE^ cwiber t, 18tt, and there be hanged > the neck by the sheriff until dead, line on December S John Brown waa taken floe blocks away to field lion a scaffold had been erected. Mo was aaportarbed and looked with he rag mm ' VI \1 pKff I 1 V i ' WHEN YOU COME TO ROCK HILL TO ATTEND THE ? 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