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[343] “that, for the sake of example, the execution would be more than usually public, one indecent fellow, behind the Judge's chair, shouted and clapped hands jubilantly; but he was indignantly checked, and in a manner that induced him to believe that he would do best to retire. It is a question, nevertheless, if the general sentiment were not fairly expressed by this action. John Brown was soon after led away again to his place of confinement.” Was ever such a speech delivered in America — so fearless, yet so gentle; so manly, modest, wise, God's-heart-imbued?
Thayer and Eldridge, 1860.
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