John Brown and His Men: With Some Account of the Roads They Traveled to Reach Harper's Ferry,Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1894 - 756 páginas |
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Página 398 - I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood.
Página 363 - This court acknowledges, as I suppose, the validity of the law of God. I see a book kissed here which I suppose to be the Bible, or at least the New Testament That teaches me that all things whatsoever I would that men should do to me, I should do even so to them.
Página 30 - The true object to be sought is first of all to destroy the money value of slave property; and that can only be done by rendering such property insecure. My plan, then, is to take at first about twenty-five picked men, and begin on a small scale; supply them with arms and ammunition and post them in squads of fives on a line of twenty-five miles.
Página 49 - Now is probably the last opportunity you will have of seeing a fight, so that you had better do your best. If they should come up and attack us, don't yell and make a great noise, but remain perfectly silent and still. Wait till they get within twenty-five yards of you ; get a good object ; be sure you see the hind sight of your gun, — then fire.
Página 364 - Let me say, also,' a word in regard to the statements made by some of those connected with me. I hear it has been stated by some of them that I have induced them to join me. But the contrary is true. I do not say this to injure them, but as regretting their weakness. There is not one of them but joined me of his own accord, and the greater part of them at their own expense.
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