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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown 1 1 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 1 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 1 1 Browse Search
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James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 9: fallen among thieves. (search)
ing them from the captive citizens and slaves. Here is only one account of the conversation of John Brown, as he lay wounded and bloody on the lawn. It is thus narrated: A short time after Captain Brown was brought out, he revived, and talked earnestly to those about him, defending his course, and avowing that he had done only what was right. He replied to questions substantially as follows: Are you Captain Brown, of Kansas? I am sometimes called so. Are you Ossawatomie Brown? I tried to do my duty there. These two replies are eminently characteristic — so manly and so modest. He never himself assumed the title of Captain, even in Kansas, where titles were as common as proper names. I tried to do my duty there, --the sentence was a key to his whole life. Neither honor nor glory moved him; the voice of duty was the only one he heard. What was your present object? To free the slaves from bondage. Were any other persons but those with