 | Hermann Von Holst - 1892 - 486 Seiten
...would have given but a passing thought to a negro insurrection." 1 Brown's last written words are: " I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged awny but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed... | |
 | 1885 - 526 Seiten
...wrongs of an oppressed race, and of his deep anxiety for the slaves ; and his last written words were : "I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes...never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now 1 84 think, vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done." [December 2nd,... | |
 | Franklin Benjamin Sanborn - 1891 - 688 Seiten
...penned this sentence, which he handed to one of his guards in the prison : — CHARLESTOWN, VA., Deo. 2, 1859. I, John Brown, am now quite certain that...will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I uow think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done. • A week before,... | |
 | Mrs. Mark Stevens - 1895 - 406 Seiten
...and slavery. The last words -written by him are : "I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crime of .this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood." And how prophetic the utterance was. Most appropriate it seemed that we should next look .upon a part... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1896 - 918 Seiten
...execution, he handed one of his guards a paper, on which was written the following : " CHARI.ESTOWN, VA., Dec. 2, 1859. I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guUiy land will never be purged away but witli blood. I had, as I now think, vainly flattered myself... | |
 | New York (State). Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests - 1897 - 636 Seiten
...morning of his execution. It reads as follows : CHARLESTOWN, December 2d, 1859. " I, John Brown, am now certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood " — a prophecy all too soon fulfilled ; and " Bloodily closed what bloodily began, With slaughter... | |
 | Frederic Bancroft - 1900 - 576 Seiten
...for treason and murder, he handed one of the guards a paper on which were written these sentences: "I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes...this guilty land will never be purged away but with Hood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done."... | |
 | 1886 - 448 Seiten
...cause he gave, not his life only, but the lives of his sons. On the day of his execution he wrote : " I am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood ;" and, strangely enough, the Colonel Lee who captured him afterward became conspicuous among pro-slavery... | |
 | James Albert Woodburn, Thomas Francis Moran - 1906 - 620 Seiten
...war and hatred against it. He thought it was too late to vote slavery down. He believed, as he said, that " the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood." He was ready for more bloody work. On October 16, 1859, with a band of twenty men, he seized the United... | |
 | John Brown - 1910 - 686 Seiten
...which he handed to one of his guards in the jail on the morning of his execution : — CHARLESTOWN, VA., Dec. 2, 1859. I, John Brown, am now quite certain...guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I hadj as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done. "Without... | |
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I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. 
