Show JOHN BROWN OF HISTORY new bradford standard wo vc take it that what makes john brown a hero and a martyr in the eyes of so many people Is not because he lie was an extreme antislavery anti slavery fanatic but because he had the courage to face everything that might result from his act ho he broke the law he know knew he broke the law and he was prepared to take the consequences it was not the attack on the arsenal at harpers ferry but death on the scaffold that has embalmed embalm ed john brown to the moral consciousness of the ame american rl people as one of the great factors in compassing the abolition of human slavery so it has been with all the john browns of history they may have defied the dominant ideas of their time they may have broken loo loose 1000 o from the restraints of what they conceived to be wicked and tyrannous laws they may have violated that law as their protest against what they believed to be injustice but they have done these things in the open and they have walked to their doom with no attempt to conceal or to evade their responsibility if john brown drown had bad tried to escape being a martyr nobody would ever have heard that his soul went marching on |