The Public Life of Captain John Brown With An Autobiography of His Childhood a
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The assertion that John Brown was affected by the conduct of Governor Wise, is one that none but an unheroic pen could make. Coarse brutality and stately courtesy were alike indifferent to the venerable warrior. Conscious of having tried to do his duty, he serenely awaited his pre-appointed fate. What was it to him that he would be brutally accused of having sought to lay "waste, with fire and sword, the fairest land under the cope of heaven?' 1 of having proposed to murder innocent women, or h...aving conspired against the lives and happiness of thousands ? Knowing that he had obeyed the Divine behest only by listening to the poor that cried ; that he had done unto others as he would have desired that others should have done unto him ; he was neither to be awed into fear nor softened into gratitude to the enemies of his God : and thus he aroused, by the modest manliness of his demeanor, the astonishment almost the vene- ration of the able but distorted intellect who stood beside him. When Governor Wise, on his return to Richmond, appeared before the people, he thus spoke of the wounded Liberator : " They are themselves mistaken who take him to be a madman.
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