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"I go joyfully on behalf of millions that 'have no rights' that this great and glorious, this Christian Republic 'is bound to respect.' "
-- John Brown, November 1859
All Virginia ... should stand forth as one man and say to fanaticism ... whenever you advance a hostile foot upon our soil, we will welcome you with bloody hands and hospitable graves.
-- James I. Kemper, Delegate to the Virginia General Assembly, 1859
It was [John Brown's] peculiar doctrine that a man has a perfect right to interfere by force with the slaveholder, in order to rescue the slave. I agree with him...
-- Henry David Thoreau, October 30, 1859
If John Brown did not end the war that ended slavery, he did at least begin the war that ended slavery.
-- Frederick Douglass, May 30, 1881 |