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Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters 29 1 Browse Search
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James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown 18 0 Browse Search
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James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Dedication. (search)
Dedication. To Wendell Phillips, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry D. Thoreau, defenders of the faithful, who, when the mob shouted, madman! said, Saint! I humbly and gratefully dedicate this book. James Redpath
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Epigraphs (search)
pigraphs The Saint, whose fate yet hangs in suspense, but whose martyrdom, if it shall be perfected, will make the gallows glorious like the Cross. --Ralph Waldo Emerson. He was one who recognized no unjust human laws, but resisted them as he was bid. No man in America has ever stood up so persistently for the dignity of human nature, knowing himself for man, and the equal of any and all governments. He could not have been tried by his peers, for his peers did not exist. --Henry D. Thoreau. God makes him the text, and all he asks of our comparatively cowardly lips is to preach the sermon, and say to the American people that, whether that old man succeeded in a worldly sense or not, he stood a representative of law, of government, of right, of justice, of religion, and they were pirates that gathered about him, and sought to wreak vengeance by taking his life. The banks of the Potomac, doubly dear now to History and to Man! The dust of Washington rests there; and His
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Book 1: he keepeth the sheep. (search)
udied the science of Liberty; and, having taken his degrees, he finally commenced the public practice of humanity in Kansas. Such were his humanities — he would have left a Greek accent slanting the wrong way, and righted up a falling man. Henry D. Thoreau. He would always choose to stay at home & work hard rather than be sent to school; & during the warm season might generally be seen barefooted & bareheaded: with Buck skin Breeches suspended often with one leather strap over his shoulder bu some petty office in the army, when about eighteen, he not only declined to accept this. but refused to train, and was fined in consequence. He then resolved that he would have nothing to do with any war unless it were a war for liberty. Henry D. Thoreau his Father soon commenced furnishing the troops with beef cattle, the collecting & driving of which afforded him some opportunity for the chase (on foot) of wild steers & other cattle through the woods. During this war he had some chance to
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 2: the father of the man. (search)
udied the science of Liberty; and, having taken his degrees, he finally commenced the public practice of humanity in Kansas. Such were his humanities — he would have left a Greek accent slanting the wrong way, and righted up a falling man. Henry D. Thoreau. He would always choose to stay at home & work hard rather than be sent to school; & during the warm season might generally be seen barefooted & bareheaded: with Buck skin Breeches suspended often with one leather strap over his shoulder bu some petty office in the army, when about eighteen, he not only declined to accept this. but refused to train, and was fined in consequence. He then resolved that he would have nothing to do with any war unless it were a war for liberty. Henry D. Thoreau his Father soon commenced furnishing the troops with beef cattle, the collecting & driving of which afforded him some opportunity for the chase (on foot) of wild steers & other cattle through the woods. During this war he had some chance to
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 1: Whetting the sword. (search)
ever to be forgotten by those who heard him, denounced the administration and the South for their work in Kansas. He spent several days in Concord, and made the acquaintance of many of its citizens; among others, of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry D. Thoreau, who have testified so clearly to his nobility of character. Near the end of March, 1857, being on my way to Washington, I met Capt. Brown in New York City, and spent a night with him at the Metropolitan Hotel. Capt. Brown objected to ther, also, said to a friend of mine, who spoke of Captain Montgomery as a man of more harmonious and cultivated intellect than John Brown, Do you know what you say, sir? John Brown is one of the most extraordinary men of this age and nation. Henry D. Thoreau styled him a true transcendentalist. Mr. Stearns, an active and generous friend of Kansas, tells two incidents of John Brown's visit to Boston at this time, which are exceedingly characteristic of the old Puritan. Shortly after his int
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, The idealist among idealists. (search)
r appeared before a committee of the Massachusetts Legislature. .... In March he visited Concord, and spoke at a public meeting in the Town Hall, where, I am told, he exhibited the chain worn by his son John in Kansas, and, with a gesture and voice never to be forgotten by those who heard him, denounced the administration and the South for their work in Kansas. He spent several days in Concord, and made the acquaintance of many of its citizens; among others, of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry D. Thoreau, who have testified so clearly to his nobility of character. Near the end of March, 1857, being on my way to Washington, I met Capt. Brown in New York City, and spent a night with him at the Metropolitan Hotel. Capt. Brown objected to the show and extravagance of such an establishment, and said he preferred a plain tavern, where drovers and farmers lodged in a plain way. We went on to Philadelphia, and while there I was taken unwell, and could scarcely sit up. Capt. Brown nursed me a