Show II I I F Kansas Honors For Brown of Osawatomie 0 Perish with hIm the folly rally that seeks through evil good I 1 Long Iong live the th generous purpose unstained with human humn blood I INot I N Not the raid of or midnight terror but the thought which underlies Not the th borderers pride of daring but the Christians sacrifice From Brown of or by John Greenleaf Whittier Whitter it i w the throngs assem assembled assembled WHEN bled at nt Osawatomie lan iran In time the closing days of ot the thue current month i ito I to listen to an address a on old John JohnBrown il Brown of ot by Theodore T eodore 1 Roosavelt they thY will hear har him express hi pinion on nn a topic ot of the contro controversial t sort S t In which hu h ho takes l most te delight The occasion oC will be lie thee th i I t g over to the state of Kansas t I for bHoli k of ot the famous bat f i i Brown and hl hi his f n ht years Arlt ago I Osawatomie Oa hn hD has set let t Itself I with gla richs riC t ht hl rt tt fInd pride irIde of spirit to the I k it t l Roosevelt Rl ovelt I I ot tit other cruet Kan Inn I ns In general n g and In ink k I are Ite Immensely n el proud of f the I tt t their Invitation to Roosevelt m at was wal one of ot the this first If not the very cry which the colonel accepted after atter his arrival In Europe from his African hunt So Osawatomie will have hae the tho double joy of ot remembering the dead dad deadman dadman man alan to whom It owes OWlS the widespread knowledge knowl dg of ot Its own name and of honoring the living hiring man manThe manThe The TIme task of relating something of oC tho the deeds de of John J hn DrOWn Brown Is Isn not nil t one to 10 tobo tobe bo be approached with lightness 1 of ot heart even by b Although halt half a II century plus almost another year has hal punned passed pR d since he expiated on the scat scaffold fold his hl offense of ot seizing United State States property at Harpers terry Kerry and thus thul declaring del war with a small emall band of ot followers on thirty millions of ot peo people people pie historians are still divided In their judgment of at him and his hll acts acte The men of ot the time called him hero madman and almost everything I I between It remained for nn an intelli intelligent gent and highly trained historian not j of southern blood a full tull generation after tho thu fact when unmoved by b the passions of ot the civil war ar period to j i class clans him as a a common criminal says one on of ot the most mORt recent of ot Browns biographers He lie adds That judg judgment Judgment ment meat of ot John Drown Is I perhaps further farther from the truth than any aru an opinion en entertained entertaIned of ot him fifty years ears ago n o by In Intelligent Intelligent and educated men of ot what whatever whatever i ever political faith Drown Brown rown was wa an aD anarchist toward a single group of ot un unjust I just human laws because he hue felt so 80 i acutely their conflict with what he deemed divine law This attitude to toward ward stAtutes mind and constitutional com coal promises ltd led him Into acts act vain sain t you OU I will and thoe those of ot a n monomaniac but not those of ot a common criminal j The battle of et to 1 he be com corn i memora by b the Roosevelt address and the erection of a n new nf state tate park prk j was woe one of ot the most striking Incidents i In the western career of John Drown i I before ho he turned his hll attention with fatal tatAl results re to the tho eastern astern states As the Inscription on the battlefield eluding his hi son none I on pitted against a force lot of 00 Missourians who opposed the c v j e eH H I 1 jj q N Ni Na I l lt h a i L W Wt WIt t I t t 9 i C 1 It I I Jf 4 I Ii i t 4 i 0 4 j jL 1 r L g C iti W i Jj 4 iJ I t tI ra I J il I e J j n v i JI Ji B I t 1 q Ilk I t I ti p pt t 1 u t I I fl f j t V r It v l 1 jt 4 lf 4 s t i w I I it k k ki i J JI I II t 1 I I tJ j jI rJ I fl t tA A I JOHN DROWN TWO PICTURES HIS TOMBSTONE p free tree soil sol ideas Idea of the settlers from eastern states stat Eulogists and censors of Brown unite In praise of ot his hi phys libya physical ical Icat hardihood on this und and other occa ocen occasions The action at Osawatomie Is 1 sometimes sometime compared compard with the historic battle at Thermopylae between Leon LeonIdas Leonides i ides Idas and his Spartans and the Persians There Is this difference I Ithe the body bod of was wal left on oem the tho field but Drown Brown withdrew In victory Time The biographers of ot Brown Drown unite units In deprecating his hla early life lit JIll His roving disposition and frequent change of ot oc occupation lend color to the tho charges of ot shiftlessness and Improvidence JIll Ills obsession by the antislavery Idea Is variously termed fanaticism und end righteous Indignation Whatever the view Iw that may be token of ot It there them Is II no nD doubt that th t he devoted to It whole himself and his large family History can hardly parallel so large a s unanimity of ot self sacrifice for fora forn a n social Ideal In who whose e behalf they stinted themselves ungrudgingly says ays saysa a recent writer It Jt was w e of course Browns rown strong personality and the vigor with which he pursued the th abolitionist abolitionIst Ideal that led to tho the devotion to his hll hi cause causa of at his wife and his twelve sons lone John Drown Drewn was born In Tor Conn Coon of ot good Puritan stock tock May Ma 9 P 1500 Ills his grandfather was wu a captain In the Revolution Ills His lit father vaA known as an opponent of ot slavery In very After following various arloua occupations marrying and begetting u at large fatally family John Drown Brown In 1848 bought a farm tarm at North Elba N X Y T where he Is burled buried lIe Ho wandered over oer New Yok Yock Ohio Connecticut and other states every everywhere eer everywhere where participating participator actively In thai tha th antislavery cause Time The settling of ot five fio of ot his hll sons son In Kantas Kanas and und their Identification with the free freo soil cause drew hIm him to that state Ills 1111 career In Irl Kansas rave gave him national prominence and his visionary lenary scheme of establish establishing Inc ing In the Maryland Matland or Virginia moun mountains mountains a refuge for tor escaped slaves Ilau led leI leIto to the battle battlo ut at Harpers Ferry lert and tile the final tragedy nt at Charleston Va a now now West Virginia Dec Vc 2 3 ARNOLD MADAMS |