 I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood.  Bulletin - Էջ 82Chicago Historical Society - 1922Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | 1885 - 526 էջ
...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...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,... | |
 | George Alfred Townsend - 1886 - 590 էջ
...brows and chin, and most hopeless face. John Brown took up the pen, and slowly, silently wrote : " I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes...think, vainly flattered myself that, without very muck bloodshed, it might be done." As the four young men put their heads together to read this piece... | |
 | 1896 - 786 էջ
...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...away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, nattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done." As one stands within the field... | |
 | Franklin Benjamin Sanborn - 1891 - 688 էջ
...sentence, which he handed to one of his guards in the prison : — CHARLESTOWN, VA., Deo. 2, 1859. I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes...will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I uow think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done. • A week before,... | |
 | Mrs. Mark Stevens - 1895 - 406 էջ
...and slavery. The last words -written by him are : "I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crime of .this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood." And how prophetic the utterance was. Most appropriate it seemed that we should next look .upon a part... | |
 | New York (State). Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests - 1897 - 636 էջ
...morning of his execution. It reads as follows : CHARLESTOWN, December 2d, 1859. " I, John Brown, am now certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood " — a prophecy all too soon fulfilled ; and " Bloodily closed what bloodily began, With slaughter... | |
 | Joseph Warren Keifer - 1900 - 386 էջ
...from the prison to the scaffold he handed to a guard a paper on which were written his last words. " I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes...away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, nattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done." Emerson, Parker, and the Abolition... | |
 | 1886 - 448 էջ
...cause he gave, not his life only, but the lives of his sons. On the day of his execution he wrote : " I am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood ;" and, strangely enough, the Colonel Lee who captured him afterward became conspicuous among pro-slavery... | |
 | James Albert Woodburn, Thomas Francis Moran - 1906 - 620 էջ
...war and hatred against it. He thought it was too late to vote slavery down. He believed, as he said, that " the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood." He was ready for more bloody work. On October 16, 1859, with a band of twenty men, he seized the United... | |
 | Elijah Avey - 1906 - 162 էջ
...John Brown, am now quite certain thatrthe crimes of this guilty land will never be washed away except with blood. I had, as I now think, vainly flattered myself that without much bloodshed it might be done." The guard gave the above words to John Avis, who was Brown's jailer.... | |
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