John Brown An Address By Frederick Douglass At the Fourteenth Anniversary of S
John Brown An Address By Frederick Douglass At the Fourteenth Anniversary of S
Douglass Frederick
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mind mere cobwebs — the pompous emptiness of human pride the pitiful outbreathings of human nothingness. He used to say " whenever there is a right thing to be done, there is a ' thus- saith the Lord ' that it shall be done. " It must be admitted that Brown assumed tremendous responsi- bility in making war upon the peaceful people of Harper's Ferry, but it must be remembered also that in his eye a slave-holding. Community could not be peaceable, but was, in the nature of the case, in one incess...ant state of war. To him such a community- was not more sacred than a band of robbers : it was the right of any one to assault it by day or night He saw no hope that slav- ery would ever be abolished by moral or political means : "he knew, " he said, " the proud and hard hearts of the slave-holders, . And that they never would consent to give up their slaves, till they felt a big stick about their heads. " It was five years before this event at Harper's Ferry, while the 20 conflict between freedom and slavery was waxing hotter and hotter with every hour, that the blundering statesmanship of the Nation- al Government repealed the Missouri compromise, and thus launched the territory of Kansas as a prize to be battled for be- tween the North and the South.
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