Echoes From a Pioneer Life

LARGE PRINT EDITION: For a brief while all sorts of rumors were afloat, and all the day long groups of men on horseback, armed with revolvers shot guns, and rifles, could be seen going towards Harper’s Ferry, the scene of excitement. These accomplished nothing. Troops of two States, Virginia and Maryland, and a company of U. S. Marines were summoned and after two days succeeded in dislodging and capturing Brown and his sixteen white comrades. The trial, conviction and hanging in Charles Town of John Brown and six of his men is familiar history. On the day of his execution, Dec. 2, 1859, he handed this paper to one of his guards: 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. Within a year and a half from the day of his death, the North and the South were at war with each other, and a Northern regiment, on its way to, the front, was singing: John Brown’s body lies a-moldering in the grave: But his soul is marching on. Small Print Edition: ISBN-10: 1453707026