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James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 9: forty days in chains. (search)
me, John Brown received large numbers of letters daily. All anonymous notes he burned without reading. He replied to as many of the others as he had time to answer. Previous to this date, also, two militia companies paid him a visit, the Continentals and the Fredericksburg Guards. He received them cordially ; but objected, he said, to be made a monkey show of. He told the Continentals that he had seen their uniform on the border during the war of 1812. Writ of error refused. On November 16, says the New York Tribune, John Brown, by counsel, made his last appeal to a Virginia tribunal. Within a few hours' time, the five judges of the Supreme Court of Appeals uttered their unanimous opinion that the judgment of the Jefferson County Court, under which the old man awaits death by hanging on the 2d day of December, was right; and therefore they denied his petition for a writ of error. The indictment upon which Brown was tried contained, four counts — for treason, for adv