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"I have been whipped as the saying is, but I am sure I can recover all the lost capital occasioned by the disaster by only hanging a few moments by the neck."
-- John Brown, Charles Town, Virginia, November 11, 1859
"So perish all such enemies of Virginia! All such enemies of the Union! All such foes of the human race!"
-- Colonel J.T.L. Preston, Virginia militiaman, December 2, 1859
"Some 1,000 years ago, Christ was crucified; this morning, perchance, Captain Brown was hung. These are the two ends of a chain which is not without its links. He is not Old Brown any longer; he is an angel of light."
-- Henry David Thoreau, December 2, 1859 |