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Show JonN BRowN's FINAL VrcTORY. LET thorn beat their drums in triumph, While the martyr, Brown, Living bravely, dying nobly, Wears the victor's crown. SummoPed to his home celestial, From th<'ir 'brief control, .All tbe hemp of ruthless tyrants Could not hang his soul. Now triumphant: kindred angels Speed him tl) the land Where the Prinro of holy martyrs, Smiling, waits his hand. God bo thanked, the spell is lwoken! Clouds, affrighted, tly, While the sun of Truth is breaking Through the angry sky. God be thanked, the dead are waking, J{oused by :Freedom's call! Tyrants, trembling, read tho fearful ·writing on tho wall. Let them beat their drums in triumph, While the martyr, Drown, Living bravely, dying nobly, Wears tho Hero's crown. G. W. LIGBT. III. LETTER FROM MRs. MASON~ OF VIRGINIA,* TO MRs. CHILD, oF MAsSACHUSETTS. ALTo, KrNo GEouoE's Co., VA., Nov. 11, 1859. DO YOU read your Bible, l\Irs. Child? If you do, read there" 'Voe unto you, hypocrite ','' and take to yourself with two-fold damnation, tlmt terrible sentence; for, rest assured, in the day of jurlgmcnt it shall be more tolerable tor those thus scathed by the awful denunciation of the Son of God, than for you. You would sooth wi th si ·tcrly and motherly care the hoary-headed murderer of Harper's F erry! A man whose aim and intention was to incite the horror" of a serYile war- to condemn women of your own race, ere death clo3ed their eyes on their suffering from violence and outrage, to sec their hu bands and fathers murdered, their children butcherP.d, the ground stre·wed with the brains of their babes. The antecedents of Brown's band proYe them to haYe been the off;:;courings of the earth; und what would have been our fate had they found as many sympathizers in Virginia as they seem to have in l\Ias achusetts? Now, compare yourself with tho e your "sympathy" WO\Ild devote to uch ruthless ruin, and say, on that "word of honor, which never has been broken," would you stand by the bedside of an old negro, dying of a hopeless di ·ease, to alleviate his sufferings as far as human aid could ? Ilavc you ever watched the last lingering illness of a consumptive, to soothe, * Wife of Senator 1\Inson, author of the Fugiliro Slu.ro Law. (333) |
