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Show Jiilin Brown's Creed. New England Magazine. Brown placed emphasis on "doing." lie despised "mere talk." He would do for others w hat he would have others oth-ers do for him. The character of his "doing" iu Virginia, considered from a military point of view, stiuck the country coun-try generally as it did the young Vir-ginan, Vir-ginan, who asked in surprise, " baton earth did you think you could do here with nineteen men?" The "folly of the thing" was the phraso everywhere talked about. It is by no means certain that there was so much folly in it as was generally supposed. It is claimed that a strong defense can be made of P.rown's original plan. He said that he betrayed hiin-sell hiin-sell by a too tender regard for the feelings feel-ings of the inhabitants, hut, to wander wan-der in uncertain speculations of this sort, is to lose sight of the whole significance signi-ficance of the deed as it stands confessed in history. What is of consequence con-sequence is to follow along the traiu of events his action marshalled into victorious vic-torious motion, swelling the party opposed to slavery by millions of hearts, fixing, as the succeeding months illustrated his deed, the signature of the north to the proclamation of the emancipation of which Lincoln w as but the scribe. "A new saint," said Emerson, Emer-son, "than whom mine purer or more brave was ever led by love of man into conflict or death anew saint waiting yet his martyrdom, and who, if he shall stilTer. will make the gallows glorious like the cross." |