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Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I., chapter 20 (search)
rtain you can do me immense good where you are. I am quite cheerful under all my afflicting circumstances and prospects; having, as I humbly trust, the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, to rule in my heart. You may make such use of this as you see fit. God Almighty bless and reward you a thousand fold! Yours, in sincerity and truth, John Brown. His letter to his family, written a week after his sentence to death, is as follows: Charlestown, Jefferson Co., Va., 8th Nov., 1859. Dear Wife and Children — Every one: I will begin by saying that I have in some degree recovered from my wounds, but that I am quite weak in my back, and sore about my left kidney. My appetite has been quite good for most of the time since I was hurt. I am supplied with almost every thing I could desire to make me comfortable, and the little I do lack (some articles of clothing, which I lost), I may perhaps soon get again. I am, besides, quite cheerful, having (as I trust) the peac