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Show Letters from Northern Men. fer all things- the cause of Human Freedom- I write to r:quest that should you have time to forward, as s~on as mny be, a " ·nttcn statement of the time and place of your b1rth, the name of your parents, your church relations, time of marriage nnd t? whom.' d.ifferent pla~es of residence, time of removal to and from Iumsas, mc1clents of tnal and triumph, personal and clomestic, while there, and any thing you may think would be of inter est f?r the o.bject ~1ow abo~t to be named. Then the object of my rcquc::;t 1s the followmg : It 1a my purpose, should it please God that you should be offe~·cd up, the ~abbath following the event, to improve from my pulp1t the occas1on of .y~ur execution ; that is to say, to preach your funeral sermon. J ounng with thousands in the daily earnest prayer that the abundant grace of God may support you, and fellow-sufferers, in this your time of great need, and through his 1·i.ch mercy ~ Ch:ist J csus administer an abundant entrance into II1s cvcrlastmg kmgdom, I subscribe myself Your unknown but sympathizing friend and brother, A. C. FROl\I .A. RHODE ISLAND FRIEND. 'VooNSOCKET, R. I., Nov. 20. To Captain John Brown, now under sentence of death at Charlestown, Virginia, for endeavoring to liberate the Bondmen. Much R espected Friend : It is now n early eighteen hundred and sixty years since our Blessed lledcemer gave His life for poor, wicked, antl fallen humanity. Since that time the progress hnR been slow, as appears to us ; but steady towards those exalted nnd godlike principles ·which he enunciated. It is difficult to understand how any community calling them:elves Christians can, by what they call Christian laws, try, co11demn, und execute a man for endeavoring to do the very same act:; which our Saviour came to do, viz., "to heal the brokC:n-heartcd, to bring deliverance to the captive, and set at liberty them that ara bound." I recollect your visit at our place many years since, when you were in the wool trade ; bttt did not dream of your immortalizing your name with the host of martp·s " ·hich have gone before you, who chose to obey God rather than mau. All I can say is this : Hold on ; trust in God to the last, and Christ will redeem you to Himself. Die like a Christian and like a man, if needs be, is the sincere desire of your friend, E. H. [Enclosed was a check for one hundred dollars.] Letters from Northern Men. 393 LETTER FROl\1 .A. SPIRITUALIST. NEw Yon.K, November 21. My Dear Sir: Although I am not personally acquainted with you, yet your hi tory, a given through the public press, your letters, your stern integrity and unconquerable zeal for what you deem to be truth and righteousness, enlist my sympathic for you in your present trying situation ; and also in the Spirit \Vorld into which you soon expect to be ushered. So far as I understand your principles in regard to freedom and physical slavery, I think you nrc right ; but, at the same time, my present view of the case i. , you was wrong in the method by which you proposed to incarnate your principles in those who enslave and those who nrc held subject to bondage. But whether I agree or di:agree with your method. it is of no consequence now. My chief object ia writin~ is, first, to inform you that I have abundant evidence that hanging docs not kill a man, or prevent his infiuencc in urging forward the worthy humanitary purposcR of hi::; affection iu the earth ; and I write now to solicit from you this favor, namely, if you go into the Spi1 it H.ealm before I do, that you will from your n ew and elevated position, and with the nid of a broader comprchcn ion of man's nature and relations, and of the con cquences of this life on the Future One,- review this whole subject of phy ical nnd mental r-;lavcry, and communicate the rc ult, and your final conclusion of the whole matter, through some medium of your own choice, with directions for them to forward the same to my paper, T/,e Spiritual Telegraph, or to The Tribww, or some other widely-circulated paper for publication. I suggest for your consideration as a medium for such communication, l\frs. J-- S--, No. --, S-- D-- Street, Buffalo, N cw York; or the medium at the circle where I attend every Thursday evening, at the corner of -- Avenue and 1\I-- S--, in the city of New York. I am not aware that you have any knowledge that spirits communicute with men, or that y ou have any sympathy with , piritualism now, but I know you ·will have when you go hence; and then, if not now, please take these suggc tions kindly into consideration for the edification and elevation of humanity, and the incarnation of the Divine Order among men on the earth. You nre at liberty to make me instrumental in forwarding any communication you please to make from the Spirit Land to yow· loving family, or friends on earth. Now, sir, I bid you au affectionate good-by, until I hear from you in |