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Ernest Crosby, Garrison the non-resistant, Chapter 5: the Civil war (search)
throw of all iniquity and the salvation of the world. In speaking of John Brown after his raid at Harper's Ferry, he says: Judging him by the code of Bunker Hill, we think he is as deserving of high-wrought eulogy as any who ever wielded sword or battle-axe in the cause of liberty; but we do not and we cannot approve any indulgence of the war spirit. John Brown has perhaps a right to a place by the side of Moses, Joshua, Gideon and David, but he is not on the same plane with Jesus, Paul, Peter and John. But these principles of Garrison did not prevent him, whenever war was actually raging, from wishing success to those who fought on the side of liberty. As an ultra-peace man, I am prepared to say: Success to every slave insurrection in the South and in every slave country. I thank God when men who believe in the right and duty of wielding carnal weapons are so far advanced that they will take those weapons out of the scale of despotism and throw them into the scale