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n solid column marched away. The body had not left the field before the carpenters began to take the scaffold to pieces, that it might be stored up against the 16th instant, when it will be used to hang Cook and Coppic together. A separate gallows will be built for the two negroes. The night after the execution has set in dark and stormy. The south wind has brought up a violent storm. The body of John Brown was delivered to his widow at Harper's Ferry, and by her it was carried to North Elba, where it now lies at rest on the bosom of the majestic mountain region that he loved when living. It was interred as only dead heroes should be buried. There was no vast assemblage of the so-called great; no pompous parade; no gorgeous processions; but loyal worth and noble genius stood at the grave of departed heroism; for his friends and his family wept as the Heaven-inspired soul of Wendell Phillips pronounced the eulogium of John Brown,--the latest and our greatest martyr to the tea
Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 3.55
praise which on that soil will do justice to his memory. As he passed along, a black woman with a child in her arms, ejaculated, God bless you, old man; I wish I could help you, but I cannot. He heard her, and, as he looked at her, a tear stood in his eye. The vehicle which was to convey John Brown to the scaffold was a furniture wagon. On the front seat was the driver, a man named Hawks, Reader, is not this symbolical? Think and say and act accordingly. said to be a native of Massachusetts, but for many years a resident of Virginia, and by his side was seated Mr. Saddler, the undertaker. In the box was placed the coffin, made of black walnut, enclosed in a poplar box with a flat lid, in which coffin and remains were to be transported to the North. John Brown mounted the wagon, and took his place in the seat with Captain Avis, the jailer, whose admiration of his prisoner is of the profoundest nature. Mr. Saddler, too, was one of John Brown's stanchest friends in his conf
Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 3.55
Copeland and Green. This interview is thus reported: He told them to stand up like men, and not betray their friends. He then handed them a quarter of a dollar each, saying he had no more use for money, and bade them adieu. He then visited Cook and Coppoc, who were chained together, and remarked to Cook: You have made false statements. Cook asked: What do you mean? Brown answered: Why, by stating that I sent you to Harper's Ferry. Cook replied: Did you not tell me in Pittsburg to come to Harper's Ferry and see if Forbes had made any disclosures? Brown: No, sir; you knew I protested against your coming. Cook replied: Captain Brown, we remember differently, at the same time dropping his head. Brown then turned to Coppic and said: Coppoc, you also made false statements, but I am glad to hear you have contradicted them. Stand up like a man. He also handed him a quarter. He shook both by the hand, and they parted. The prisoner was then taken to Steve
Harper's Ferry (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 3.55
ited States Marines; L, Woods scoured by the Wood's Rifles, to have the first brush at the enemy, if approaching from Harper's Ferry; M M M, Pickets of the Fauquier Cavalry; N N N, Two lines of Sentries; O, Petersburg Grays, as Body Guard to prisonerhave made false statements. Cook asked: What do you mean? Brown answered: Why, by stating that I sent you to Harper's Ferry. Cook replied: Did you not tell me in Pittsburg to come to Harper's Ferry and see if Forbes had made any disclosuHarper's Ferry and see if Forbes had made any disclosures? Brown: No, sir; you knew I protested against your coming. Cook replied: Captain Brown, we remember differently, at the same time dropping his head. Brown then turned to Coppic and said: Coppoc, you also made false statements, but I amk and stormy. The south wind has brought up a violent storm. The body of John Brown was delivered to his widow at Harper's Ferry, and by her it was carried to North Elba, where it now lies at rest on the bosom of the majestic mountain region that
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