 | Hermann Von Holst - Constitutional history - 1892 - 486 pages
..." I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged awny but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered...that without very much bloodshed it might be done." San born, loc. cit., p. 620. The boldest proclaimed it publicly with shouts" of jubilation and an ardent... | |
 | New England - 1896 - 840 pages
...much living as dead ; and it was thus that he expressed himself. On the day of his execution he wrote: "I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes...that without very much bloodshed it might be done." As one stands within the field where he was executed, and looks off at the wide-spreading view, hemmed... | |
 | Franklin Benjamin Sanborn - 1885 - 684 pages
...handed to one of his guards in the jail on the morning of his execution : — CBARLESTOWN, \\.,-Dec. 2, 1859. I. John Brown, am now quite certain that...myself that without very much bloodshed it might be doue. "Without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins." This was John Brown's old-fashioned... | |
 | Alfred Seelye Roe - 1885 - 42 pages
...wrongs of an oppressed race, and of his deep anxiety for the slaves ; and his last written words were : "I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes...that without very much bloodshed it might be done." [December 2nd, 1859.] Our retrospect would be incomplete did we not recall the events happening in... | |
 | Worcester Historical Society, Worcester, Mass - Massachusetts - 1885 - 546 pages
...wrongs of an oppressed race, and of his deep anxiety for the slaves ; and his last written words were : "I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes...that without very much bloodshed it might be done." [December 2nd, 1859.] Our retrospect would be incomplete did we not recall the events happening in... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1885 - 526 pages
...that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now 1 84 think, vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done." [December 2nd, 1859.] Our retrospect would be incomplete did we not recall the events happening in... | |
 | Franklin Benjamin Sanborn - 1891 - 698 pages
...handed to one of his guards in the jail on the morning of his execution : — CHARLESTOWN, VA., Dec. 2, 1859. I, John Brown, am now quite certain that...that without very much bloodshed it might be done. "Without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins." This was John Brown's old-fashioned... | |
 | Henry Howe - Ohio - 1891 - 684 pages
...he handed one of his guards a paper, on which was written the following : " CHARLESTOWN, VA., Dec. 2, 1859. I, John Brown, am now quite certain that...that without very much bloodshed it might be done." Rev. SD Peet, in the "Ashtabula County History," gives some interesting items. The means were so out... | |
 | Henry Howe - Ohio - 1891 - 610 pages
...he handed one of his guards a paper, on which was written the following : " CHARLESTOWX, VA., Dec. 2, 1859. I, John Brown, am now quite certain that...that without very much bloodshed it might be done." Rev. SD Peet, in the "Ashtabula County History," gives some interesting items. The means were so out... | |
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I. John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done. 
