 | James Redpath - Abolitionists - 1860 - 426 pages
...convince the other of the correctness of their peculiar j doctrines." — — •* Another writer says : " Brown was visited yesterday by Rev. James H. March,...Church. The reverend gentleman having advanced an argumenfia I' favor of the institution of slavery as it now exists, Brown replied to him, saying, '... | |
 | James Redpath - Abolitionists - 1860 - 456 pages
...hand and h«ld his ride with the other, and commanded his men wilh the utmost composure, •ncomaging them to be firm, and to sell their li-ves as dearly as they could." XL THE POLITICAL INQUISITORS. AS soon as it was known that John Brown was not dead, and that three... | |
 | James Redpath - Abolitionists - 1860 - 436 pages
...hand, and held his rifle with tho other, and commanded his men with the utmost composure, diicouraguig them to be firm, and to sell their lives as dearly as possible."* The old man, we are told, spoke freely with Colonel Washington, and referred to his sons.... | |
 | John Brown - Abolitionists - 1861 - 486 pages
...he was done with it. And Colonel Washington says that he, Brown, was the coolest and firmest man ho ever saw in defying danger and death. With one son...and to sell their lives as dearly as they could." As soon as it was known that Captain Brown was not dead, and that three of his followers had been protected... | |
 | Richard Davis Webb - 1861 - 480 pages
...he was done with it. And Colonel Washington says that he, Brown, was the coolest and firmest man ho ever saw in defying danger and death. With one son...and to sell their lives as dearly as they could." As soon as it was known that Captain Brown was not dead, and that three of his followers had been protected... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - North America - 1877 - 764 pages
...other, and issued oral commands to his men with all the composure of a general in his marquee, telling them to be firm and to sell their lives as dearly as possible. On Monday evening, Colonel Robert E. Lee arrived at Harper's Ferry, with ninety United States... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1878 - 722 pages
...other, and issued oral commands to his men with all the composure of a general in his marquee, telling them to be firm and to sell their lives as dearly as possible. On Monday evening, Colonel Robert E. Lee arrived at Harper's Ferry, with ninety United States... | |
 | Franklin Benjamin Sanborn - 1885 - 684 pages
...one son dead by bis side, and another shot throngh, he felt the pulse of his dying son with one hand, held his rifle with the other, and commanded his men...and to sell their lives as dearly as they could." BROWN'S SPEECHES AT HIS TKIAL. On the first day of his trial under indictment (October 25), in the... | |
 | John A. Gutteridge - Canada - 1890 - 256 pages
...one hand, held his rifle in the other, and commanding his men with the utmost composure, encouraged them to be firm and to sell their lives as dearly as possible." During the night Colonel Robert E. Lee, arrived with soldiers and artillery. On the eighteenth... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1892 - 604 pages
...who was a prisoner in the engine-house, afterwards said : " Brown was the coolest and firmest man I ever saw in defying danger and death. With one son...and to sell their lives as dearly as they could." ' Yet the remorseless spirit which governed the stern Puritan that terrible night on the Pottawatomie... | |
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Brown, was the coolest and firmest man ho ever saw in defying danger and death. With one son dead by his side, and another shot through, he felt the pulse of his dying son with one hand and held his rifle with the other, and commanded his men with the... 
