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Show James Frectnan Clarke. rebuke, with ,rita itn-cctive; and nt Jn::;t, ag in the prrR 'llt in.' tauce, with the 'Word and rifie. Jolm Brown ha b • ' 11 taught Chri ' tinn:ty hy a church, which, binding up in one volume the 01<1 anti New Te~taments, calls them Loth the Chri tian Bible, Emd give ccptal authority to the one a to the other. lie i5 an Olti T c:-:.ta- 111 •uL Christian; a Chri'ti:ln who b •licvc" in the word of the Lord nnd of Gideon. Bred u. Calvini 'L of the stricte ' t SC<'t in Connecticut, ami holding firmly to hi" faith, he hare all the great and noble qualities that faith has so oft 'n produced, together with its frequent alloy. lie is such a man a , alvin ism produced in the Scotch CovenanterE~, in the men of Cromwell's Ironsiue Regiment, who did not do the work of the Lord negligently at Na 'cby and at 'Vorcester. To this is added a touch of chivalric devotion and in. pired enthusiasm, such as ncrYed the arm of the 1\iaid of Orleans nnd of Charlotte Corday. Let me give you an authentic anecdote of hiR strir.t and impartial sense of justicl3. Some years ago, when living in Western P enn. ylntnia, or on the Ohio Rc., rvc, he found a. man whom he beli •vcd to be a hor e thiet: Ile arrc.-;ted him and took him to jail. Thf) man wa convicted and ent to prison. But while he wa in pri:;on, tTohn Brown furni shed the man's fhmily with provi ions and clothing. The man had committed a crime, and Brown's en e of ju;:;tice required that he should Le puni:heu. IIi wife and children had not committed any crime, and Brown's sense of ju~ticc would not allow them to be puni hcd for another's fault. The man who told this story is now sheriff, I think, in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, and was at that time a boy in Brown'::; family, and was him elf sent to town to buy flour and carry it to I he hou e of the convict. These arc the three causes of this tragedy: First, the radical hostility growing ever stronger between Slavery and J atncs Frccrnan Clarke. ~27 \) Freedom. Secondly, the fnbe Coll~crvnti:-;m nt th North, which, dividing our :--tr<·ngt h, has pr ,,.<'nl<'<l Fr ·edom from cru!'hing t lw propagnndi~m of Slavery in 1 II(• hud. )\ n<l, t!tirclly, a Christianity whit:lt <'otd(l not speak th truth ·with power, :111d uf th · :-;am • t itne with Jo\· • Thc·s thre' cau:-;es will produce the like ·fleet;:, again, only more tf•rrible, unl •ss some It 'lp conH•::; from God's prov i(l ·nee antl man':-1 fid ·]ity. Let u ~<'e if :mdt help i. likely to come. 'Vlwt will be the eomwqncnc' of thi~ afEtir? I have heard it :-;ai(l that tlH•t· · will b • no mark<'d result from thi:-' cn'nl: that. the wa.v('~ will clo;o;c ov<'r the h< ·:Hl of thi. misguid ·d hut honorc<l eharnpi0n of tl1 forlorn, nnd thn.t in ~ ix months the worl<l will f:C:trc ·ly n•rncmbcr hirn or hi act ion:'. I cannot think so. To me thi ~ <'Y<'nt. <·ems fn•irrlJt d with ("I con <'qucnces. It i.-; like the <'lock, striki ng til(~ littalhonr - tlte hou r of the h<·gillning of' a new t'ra in tlli" confli('t. There is something ~o l< · llln , :-:omd hing omirwu:; in thi5 tran:-:.~wtion. 'Vhile we are talking, arguing-, rn<~king !'IH'C(·hc:;, baring Anti-Slav ry l~tir · nnd Anti-Sla\'('ry p:cni<·~, here i:'! thi:; old man, with hi:-~ . em:-~, t:tking his lif'e and their Ii,· ·~, and going calmly for·ward to ~tr ik e a blow at the heart of this system. Yon may call it madtw~s, in8nnity- wltat you will -but it i ' the madne s of Cu rti us len1)inrr into the rrulf 0 t:> which yawnc<1 in tl te forum; the insn nity of the Roman Con ul, who, dedicating him" >lf to the in~·rnal gods, plunged alone and in full armor into the rank." of the enemy, as a sacrifice for his nation. It i the madness of Arnold of 'Vinkelried, gathering into his bosom the deadly sheaf of ~ pear·- the madnes. of the three hundr<>d that went to die at Thermopy lm-of the six hundred who rod into the Jaw of Hell, to peri h in vain, because it was their duty to do and die. It i a kind of insanity of which a (' ·w HpcC'imcn~ ar' ~cattercd along the course of the human race- anti wherever they are found, |