Winning Orations of the Inter-State Oratorical Contests
Winning Orations of the Inter-State Oratorical Contests
Charles Edgar Prather
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A few months later he made his startling appearance at Harper's Ferry; seized the national arsenal, held it for two days. Finally captured, he was tried, convicted, hanged. Such is the brief story of his life as the world knows it; yet little of the man is revealed in these bare facts. Lives are measured by motives and results. His life was noble or base, great or insignificant, according as the motives inspiring it were noble or base, the influence exerted by it great or mean. Many judge him w...holly by these facts. To them his deeds are the plottings of a heart burning for revenge. He entered Kansas to avenge the wrongs of his sons, to fight Missouri, to incite war between the North and South. Urged by his blind insanity and frenzied hate he made the foolish and criminal attack upon Harper s Ferry, and was rightly adjudged mur- derer, insurrectionist, traitor. True, in the midst of his mur- derous deeds he avowedly sought the freedom of the slave. But assassins of presidents have pleaded the good of the country; and the anarchist, as he hurls his bomb, shouts for the liberty of the oppressed.
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