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James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 9: forty days in chains. (search)
hout bloodshed? he replied, It had been done in Missouri. Just at that point the interview terminated. The prisoners are still guarded with the greatest vigilance. Hundreds of men all the time under arms are stationed at the jail, which, by the way, in its external appearance looks much more like a private residence than a jail, with its curtained windows and porch or stoop, to speak in Yankee parlance, leading out on the street-but it is very strong and secure within. On the 5th of November, a Northern lady-- Mrs. Spring-arrived in Charlestown to nurse John Brown; and, on the following day, was admitted to his cell. From her account of this interview, all that has not hitherto been published is subjoined: On our way we spent a night at Harper's Ferry. In the parlor we heard a young lady describing to a gentleman the horrors of the night of terror. I wished, she said, I could shoot them all. She told the story of poor Thompson, brought wounded into the hotel, foll