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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
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>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
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