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- Alan
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- Alan
I do not consider it necessary at present for me to discuss those matters of administration about which there is no special anxiety or excitement.
Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the Southern States that by the accession of a Republican Administration their property and their peace and personal security are to be endangered. There has never been any reasonable cause for such apprehension. Indeed, the most ample evidence to the contrary has all the while existed and been open to their inspection. It is found in nearly all the published speeches of him who now addresses you. I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that—I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
Those who nominated and elected me did so with full knowledge that I had made this and many similar declarations and had never recanted them; and more than this, they placed in the platform for my acceptance, and as a law to themselves and to me, the clear and emphatic resolution which I now read:Resolved, That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend; and we denounce the lawless invasion by armed force of the soil of any State or Territory, no matter what pretext, as among the gravest of crimes.
John Brown believed that he was God's instrument of justice.
John Brown believed that he was God's instrument of justice.
How do we know he believed this?
Compared to those who enslaved others Brown is rather Saintly.He's a long way from being a saint
Many of the enslaved would disagree about that. If ones family members are enslaved would you question the manner that they were freed? If you're daughter or wife is a plaything for their master would you care about in what manner they were freed?John Brown was a zealot, not a saint. The abolition cause he espoused did not in any way justify his actions.
We don't know if Brown actually hurt the cause of abolition. It was Brown who gave the free soilers in Kansas the spine to start fighting back against the Border Ruffians. It was the raid on Harper's Ferry that scared the secessionists into secession in that they were alarmed that many in the North were sympathetic to Brown.A great many people throughout history have believed themselves to be "the instrument of God'a will."
They can't all have been right.
They could all have been wrong, ..... and undoubtedly were.
John Brown was a zealot in a just cause. In laying his life on the line for the freedom of others he was a freedom fighter, and a champion of liberty. He was also a murderous fanatic who did far more to hurt than to benefit to those he sought to free.
"Saintly" is a term so subjective as to be meaningless.
Actually, Moses killed an Egyptian who was beating a Hebrew (Exodus 2:11-12).Moses was murderer?
Slavery was one of the greatest evils ever perpetrated on this country, but two wrongs do not make a right.