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- 2050
- author: Hawkins, Walter
- title: Old John Brown, the man whose soul is marching on
- date: None
- words: 14919
- flesch: 75
- summary: 'My friend,' says a plain-looking countryman--no other than John Brown himself--on the outskirts of the throng, 'you talk very brave; and as you will never have a better opportunity to shoot old Brown than right here and now, you can have a chance.' As to John Brown himself, his friend F. B. Sanborn's LIFE AND LETTERS is a mine of wealth.
- keywords: abolitionist; age; best; better; bible; blood; blow; body; book; brave; brown; business; captain; cause; certain; chapter; children; company; court; days; dead; dear; death; early; earth; emancipation; end; enemy; escape; eyes; family; father; ferry; fire; folk; form; franklin; free; freedom; gentlemen; glory; god; good; government; great; hand; harper; head; heart; heaven; help; history; holders; home; horses; house; human; john; john brown; jubilee; kansas; land; later; length; liberty; life; little; lives; living; long; lord; love; man; march; market; master; means; meet; men; mere; money; morning; mother; near; new; night; north; northern; oath; object; ohio; old; place; plain; poor; possible; prepared; prisoners; purpose; question; ready; ruffians; says; set; settlers; slave; slavery; sons; soul; spirit; state; story; strange; strong; sure; swift; sword; talk; terror; things; thinking; thought; time; true; union; united; vow; war; washington; way; wife; wise; wool; words; work; world; wounded; years; young
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- 28052
- author: Roe, Alfred S. (Alfred Seelye)
- title: John Brown: A Retrospect Read before The Worcester Society of Antiquity, Dec. 2, 1884.
- date: None
- words: 8528
- flesch: 72
- summary: The _New York Herald_ of the same date, voicing the sentiment of those who actively or passively upheld slavery, alludes to the Hero as Old John Brown, the culprit, hanged for murder, etc., and states that the South was correct. I quote a notice of it from the _Boston Journal_: The writer, Dr. G.W. Brown, in slip-shod and often ungrammatical English assails the memory of Old John Brown, charges him with active participation in various bloody crimes, and abuses his biographers and eulogists.
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- 31839
- author: Douglass, Frederick
- title: John Brown: An Address at the 14th Anniversary of Storer College
- date: None
- words: 10237
- flesch: 69
- summary: Such men as he whom we are now considering, come on to the theater of life only at long intervals. That which time has done for other great men of his class, that will time certainly do for John Brown.
- keywords: address; american; armed; best; blood; body; brave; brown; capt; captain; cause; character; colored; country; day; death; easy; emancipation; enemy; face; fact; family; feeling; ferry; force; freedom; friend; general; god; good; government; great; green; ground; hands; harper; heart; henry; hero; high; history; honor; hope; hour; house; human; john; john brown; justice; kansas; large; law; liberty; life; little; long; man; men; moment; money; moral; mountains; nation; necessary; new; night; north; object; occasion; old; people; place; plan; power; purpose; race; raid; reason; sense; slavery; slaves; small; soul; spirit; state; story; subject; sword; thought; time; town; true; truth; virginia; war; way; white; wise; work; world; worthy; years
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- 41582
- author: Wilson, Hill Peebles
- title: John Brown, Soldier of Fortune: A Critique
- date: None
- words: 145890
- flesch: 68
- summary: Of Brown himself, the _Herald_ published the following sane and _restful_ paragraph: About noon Mr. John Brown, an aged gentleman from Essex County, New York, who has been a resident of the Territory for several months, arrived with four of his sons,--leaving several others at home sick, bringing a quantity of arms with him which were placed in his hands by eastern friends for the defense of the cause of freedom. Mr. Brown, who sent you here? _John Brown_:
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respect; result; retreat; return; revolution; richard; rifles; rights; river; road; robbery; robinson; room; run; russell; safety; said; salmon brown; samuel; sanborn; satisfactory; saying; scene; scheme; school; scott; second; secretary; secure; self; senator; sense; sentence; sentiment; september; service; settlement; settlers; shannon; sheep; shelter; sherman; shore; shot; sick; similar; simple; situation; slavery; slavery men; slaves; small; smith; society; soldier; south; southern; spears; special; speech; spirit; spring; state; state men; statement; stealing; stearns; stevens; stock; strong; struggle; subject; success; successful; sufficient; sunday; supplies; support; suppressed; supreme; surrender; suspicion; sword; sympathy; tabor; terms; territorial; territory; testimony; thayer; theodore; theory; thereto; thieves; things; thomas; thompson; thought; tidd; time; time brown; titus; topeka; town; train; transaction; treaty; trial; tried; trifling; troops; trouble; true; truth; turner; understanding; undertaking; union; united; unknown; vallandigham; valuable; value; venture; vicinity; victory; view; villard; virginia; visit; volunteer; wagon; want; war; warfare; washington; watson brown; way; weeks; west; white; whitman; wife; wild; wilkinson; william; wilson; winter; wise; wish; women; wool; words; work; working; world; wounded; writer; writing; years; york; young
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- 8462
- author: Dixon, Thomas, Jr.
- title: The Man in Gray: A Romance of North and South
- date: None
- words: 114441
- flesch: 88
- summary: We, older men, must halt and pray, and feel our way. I'm glad to know you, young man.
- keywords: abolitionist; action; afraid; aide; alexander; american; answer; appeal; arlington; armed; armies; arms; army; arsenal; ask; assault; attack; authority; away; babies; baby; banjo; battle; beard; beat; beautiful; beauty; bed; belt; ben; bent; best; better; big; black; blair; blood; bloodshed; blow; blue; bodies; body; book; boston; boy; boys; brave; break; breakfast; breast; breath; bridge; broken; brother; brown; business; butler; cabin; camp; captain; care; carolina; cause; cavalry; chance; chapter; character; charge; chief; children; church; citizens; city; civilization; clear; close; clothes; cold; colonel; colonel lee; come; coming; command; commander; common; company; complete; compromise; confederate; congress; constitution; control; convention; cook; country; course; court; creek; crime; cross; crowd; cry; custis; cut; daddy; daily; damned; dance; daring; dark; darkness; dat; daughter; dawn; day; days; dead; dear; death; decision; deed; deep; delay; desperate; determined; dey; dinner; disciples; division; dog; dollars; door; doubt; douglas; doyle; duty; dying; eager; early; earth; effort; enemies; engine; england; equal; excuse; eyes; face; fact; fair; faith; faithful; family; far; farm; father; fear; feel; feet; fellow; ferry; feud; field; fierce; fighting; figure; final; fine; fire; fixed; flag; flashed; flesh; floor; flowers; foe; followers; following; fool; force; fort; frederick; free; friend; friendly; fur; future; game; garrison; gate; general; general lee; genius; george; gerrit; girl; glad; glory; god; goin'; gone; good; goodbye; gordon; government; governor; grant; gray; great; green; grim; grip; ground; group; guard; guns; gwine; hair; half; hall; hand; hard; harper; hat; hate; head; headquarters; heart; hell; help; henry; higginson; high; hills; history; hold; home; honor; hooker; hope; horror; horses; hours; house; human; husband; i'se; idea; imagination; important; impulse; insane; inside; insurrection; iron; issue; jackson; james; john; john brown; joy; judge; justice; kansas; keen; kind; knows; labor; laugh; law; laws; leader; leave; lee; left; liberty; lieutenant; life; like; lincoln; line; lips; little; live; living; long; longer; look; lord; lost; love; low; madame; man; march; marines; marked; marse; marshall; mary; maryland; master; mcclellan; means; meeting; member; men; message; miles; millions; mind; minutes; mission; missouri; mistress; mob; moment; money; months; morning; mother; movement; mrs; murder; music; nation; national; near; necessary; neck; need; negro; negroes; neighbor; new; news; nigger; night; north; northern; note; o'clock; officers; old; old man; ole; oliver; open; order; osawatomie; outside; owen; paper; party; passion; past; pate; paused; people; personality; phil; piece; pikes; place; plains; plan; platform; play; point; political; poor; position; possible; pottawattomie; power; prayer; president; press; pretty; pride; prisoners; progress; proud; puritan; purpose; question; quick; quiet; race; racial; ranks; ready; real; rear; reason; red; religious; republic; rescue; resolution; restless; return; reverence; revolver; richmond; rifle; rights; river; road; roar; robbie; robert; room; rose; ruffin; run; saddle; sah; sake; sam; savage; save; saw; scene; school; seat; second; secret; senator; sense; sentinel; servants; service; set; settlement; shadow; sharp; sheridan; sherman; shot; shoulders; sick; signal; silence; silent; singing; single; sir; sister; slavery; slaves; sleep; small; smile; smith; smoke; soft; soil; soldier; son; song; sons; soul; sound; south; southern; space; speech; spirit; spite; sprang; stand; states; stay; step; stern; stevens; stop; storm; strange; street; strength; strong; struggle; stuart; study; success; sudden; sumner; sun; sunday; supreme; sure; surrender; sweeney; swept; sword; system; table; talk; tall; task; taylor; tell; tender; terrible; territory; terror; thank; thing; thinking; thought; thousands; time; tired; tones; toombs; touch; town; townsley; tragedy; trembling; trenches; trial; tried; triumph; troops; true; truth; uncle; union; united; vain; virginia; vision; voice; vote; wage; wagon; war; warm; washington; watch; water; way; week; weiner; west; white; white man; wid; wide; wife; wild; wilkinson; william; window; winter; wish; woman; wonder; words; work; world; wounded; wrong; wuz; yards; yassah; years; york; young
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